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In this week's issue...
1. Open of Athens correction
2. Sergio Ramos wins in Madrid
3. A very open tournament in Madrid
4. Marcos Kapsambelis wins the Satellite of Athens
5. The dutch cup for Robbert Thoen
6. Pierre De Leeuw is the king in Templeuve
7. New website for Atlas TFC
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1. Open of Athens correction
There was a mistake in the previous issue of the FISTF newsletter. The
winner of the U15 section at the Open of Athens was Vaggelis Bairas.
2. Sergio Ramos wins in Madrid
The first Satellite of Madrid was played this saturday with a big field of
players. Sergio Ramos (Portugal) beat Giuliano Gazzoldi from Italy 4-1 in
the final. José Ros and Nicky Napolitano were the semi-finalists. The team
event (8 teams) was nice as well with a final victory for the team of Real
Murcia B. They beat the Italians of Sanremo in the final. Brescia and
Fiamme Azzurre lost in the semis.
3. A very open tournament in Madrid
Giuseppe Guzzetta (Catania, Italy) won the 2nd Satellite of Madrid held
this sunday in a shopping center int he center of the city. Guzzetta beat
Paolo Finardi (Warriors Torino). Semi-finalists were Claudio Dogali and
Emilio Richichi. The Madrid Satellites were very successful with 47 players
on each day!
4. Marcos Kapsambelis wins the Satellite of Athens
The second greek Satellite of the season was organized this week-end by the
club of Roligans. 54 players competed, which is a good number for a
Satellite. In the team event, 5 teams were competing and the team of Pireas
Lions won the tournament. They had the same number of points as the B-team
of Roligans but they had a better number of individual wins. Christos
Kourouklis (Roligans) beat his club mate Marios Bourtzonis in the final of
the U12 event. In the ladies we had also 6 players and Eleftheria
Papanikolaou (Roligans) beat Xiki violetta in the final with a score 1-0.
13 veterans participated in the category. Dimitris Kourambas (Olympia)
lifted his first ever trophy beating in the final Chris Aggelinas (AS
Hennuyer). In the main event on sunday, there were 34 Open players. The
favorites went all the way and Marcos Kapsambelis (seed 2) doubled his
victories for the season beating Giorgos Papadopoulos (seed 1) in the
final. Giorgos Tsombanidis and Eugene Plytas reached the semis. The
tournament was played with the presence of the TV Channel "TRT Turk" and
some kids played their first tournament ever thanks to the efforts of the
Roligans club, which introduces the game to a lot of young players.
Congratulations to Giorgos Dimakeas and his clubmates for their efforts.
5. The dutch cup for Robbert Thoen
On December 19, 2009 the National Dutch Cup was won by Robbert Thoen. In
the final he beat friend and teammate Marco Leeman with 1-0. The 3rd place
was going to Nico Marks. He won with 3-1 from Paul Brinker.
6. Pierre De Leeuw is the king in Templeuve
56 players attended the Templeuve national tournament this saturday. The
host club was celebrating their 20th birthday and unfortunately many last
minute drop-outs were registered because of the snow. Even the trains
coming to the Tournai station were late so the start of the tournament was
postponed by 30 minutes. In the main category, because of the drop-ous,
there were only 6 players taking part. After a groupe stage, Pierre De
Leeuw (Charleroi) and Rémi Soret (France) came on top and played the final.
Pierre De Leeuw won the game 4-3 to win the tournament for the second time.
Justin Leroy was 3rd. In the B-category, Rémy Huynh (Rochefort TS) defeated
home player Geoffrey Marain in the final (1-0). In the C-category, Eric
Threis (Stembert) won the final against Benoît Léonard (Rochefort TS).
Threis was playing his first tournament in 20 years! Jos Ceulemans (SC
Flanders) beat Bruno Goset (Stembert) in the final of the veterans. In the
U15 category, Jérémie Gosset (AS Hennuyer) had no pain to beat David
Vantassel in the final. The consolation tournaments were won by Julien
Dardenne (B-category), Jean-Luc Platiaux (C-category) and Matthias
Mastroianni (U15).
7. New website for Atlas TFC
The greek club of Atlas is building a new website at www.atlas-ftc.com
