Everything About Foosball

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Building a table during the Spanish Civil War

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Fun Facts

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Fun Fact

Che Guevara's match: Alejandro Finisterre, the inventor of Spanish futbolín, once played a competitive game of foosball against the famous revolutionary Che Guevara in Guatemala in 1952.

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Quizzes

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From which German word does the American term 'foosball' derive?

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How did Alejandro Finisterre lose his original 1937 Spanish patent papers for futbolín?

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Which historical figure did Alejandro Finisterre play foosball against in Guatemala in 1952?

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Why did Alejandro Finisterre invent his Spanish version of table football, called futbolín, in 1937?

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In what year did Harold Thornton patent the first official table football design in the United Kingdom?

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Which French automotive engineer is credited with designing the classic French 'baby-foot' table?

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What everyday object inspired Harold Thornton to design the row-of-rods layout for table football?

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Who trademarked the word 'Foosball' in the United States after discovering the game in Germany?

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Glossary

foosball (noun)
A tabletop game resembling soccer in which players control miniature figures mounted on rotating rods to strike a ball. English inventor Harold Searles Thornton patented the modern design of this tabletop sport in 1921.