Official Table Soccer in the USA
The Outer Banks Subbuteo Club will host the Carolina Classic ASA Open on Saturday, March 9, 2024, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
For more information and to register for the tournament, please contact Jeremy Goninan (jeremygoninan AT gmail)
The ASA Board of Directors has selected Christian Filippella as the 2024 Team USA World Cup team captain.
Filippella returns as team Captain after leading the squad in Rome in 2022. He is a deeply accomplished and experienced player: a two-time ASA National Champion, twice World Cup semi-finalist (2018 in the Open and 2022 in Traditional Subbuteo), and a regular competitor in the Italian Serie A. He has played in the last four World Cups as a core member of Team USA and is the only ASA player to have ever won a World Cup medal.
“I’m honored to be the captain once more,” Filippella said. “I’m proud to represent a growing movement in the United States. There is a lot of enthusiasm for the game and it is great to see so much improvement in the last few years.”
The 2024 FISTF World Cup will be staged in Tunbridge Wells, the area where Peter Adolph invented the game in 1946. “I’m excited to play in England again,” Filippella said. “Last time I played there was in 2000 with Italy at the European championships at the old Wembley stadium. I reached the semifinals and it was an amazing experience.”
The USA captain tells us the World Cup squad is about to be announced. Stay tuned!
The Outer Banks Subbuteo Club hosted a tournament on August 20th in famous Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The club put on the event as their trial run for the national tournament to come in Kitty Hawk the weekend of October 20th.
Eight players competed in this Hawaii-themed tournament, which honored the victims of the fires there; money was collected as donations for those that live in and around the devastation.
Great play and fantastic strides were on show from the Outer Banks players. Special congratulations to the semifinalists, Scott McCaulley and Josh Goninan, for their great efforts.
The final was a contest between Jeremy Goninan and Bryan Arnold, which Bryan won when the final whistle blew.
A big thank-you from the ASA to the club in the Outer Banks for organizing and hosting the fun filled summer tournament.
On June 11th, the Denver Open was held with 9 players competing. The players gathered in the mile high city for the tournament; some of whom traveled great distances from the west coast and the east coast as well.
Organized by Cameron Tucker, and hosted by Tory Reed and the Colorado Subbuteo Club, the event took place on a special gamenight at the venue in which Subbuteo and Crokinole (a Canadian board game), were both on show.
Zach Walker won his group, and then beat semifinalist, Mike Thumim, to progress to the final. Bryan Arnold finished first in his group, and beat Cameron in the other semi.
In the final match of the evening, Zach Walker won the Denver Open beating Bryan, 2-0. Congratulations to Zach for his tournament win!!
Thank you to this ASA organizer, and also the host, for this enjoyable experience on the ASA calendar.
view the final here on ASAtv:
The latest tournament in Alexandria, Virginia was held on Saturday, April 29th. The field of 11 players came from far and wide to compete for the trophey. The field spanned from Avondale, PA through Maryland and Virginia, and down further south to the Outer Banks of NC.
The event was played using a Swiss Ladder of 7 rounds. There was a championship bracket with knockout rounds along with the Mary Jane bracket.
Congratulations to Daniel Cranston who emerged the winner by a score of 2-1 against Paul Eyes, and also to Andrew Zunino who won the Mary Jane final against Joshua Goninan!!
Watch the final between Daniel and Paul on ASAtv:
The 2023 Western States Open was hosted by BUSL95 March 10-12th. The weekend was a fantastic gathering of players from across the United States with a healthy balance of community and competition.
Overall, the weekend featured 19 players, 12 of which were from the host club, making this the largest Subbuteo tournament ever in the state of Idaho. BUSL95 would like to thank everybody for their participation, camaraderie, teaching, and learning over the weekend.
Continue reading “2023 Western States Open Results”
There were three Americans that competed in the Veterans category: Peter Alegi, Varant Kurkeyerian, and Bryan Arnold. For these players, the Vets category was a long awaited and long anticipated tournament. Many hours of training went into preparation. Many matches back home to get fit and prepared were played. These players used their accumulated personal assets to take on the best Vets in the world.
By Bryan Arnold
Like many players all over the world, I had been anticipating the World Cup in Rome for several years: thinking on and off about what it would be like and what would happen. I looked forward to representing my country in a big way. I looked forward to being a teammate to some of our best players.
My anticipation did not lag. The world cup cycle was changed to two years instead of one. My anticipation grew as more time passed. Then, the nasty beast of a pandemic thundered across the face of the earth. Time passed as it does, table soccer was no where near my consciousness.
The team event of the World Cup in Rome was a highly charged tournament: teams wanting to achieve great things together, and players wanting to win their matches to make dreams come true. There were scenes of teams huddling and whispering strategies. Fantastic team colors and jerseys made every view memorable. There were loud screams of satisfaction in scoring goals that jarred the onlookers, but who also smiled and laughed with enjoyment.
Americans were proud to participate in the FISTF World Cup Open category playing some of the best players in the world. Christian Filippella led the American effort with Benny Nuger as our second participant.
