Tournament

The Finnish Foot­bag Asso­ci­a­tion and the beau­ti­ful city of Helsinki are this year’s host to the annual IFPA World Foot­bag Cham­pi­onship tour­na­ment. Together with the Inter­na­tional Foot­bag Play­ers’ Asso­ci­a­tion and an event pro­duc­tion com­pany spe­cial­ized in urban sports and arts, an expe­ri­enced team of FFA mem­bers are orga­niz­ing the event. Their goal is to deliver the best Worlds yet — for com­peti­tors and spec­ta­tors alike.

This is the sec­ond time for the Helsinki foot­bag scene to orga­nize the World Cham­pi­onships. In 2005, Emmanuel Bouchard and Vašek Klouda dom­i­nated the sport, both claim­ing mul­ti­ple titles at the Helsinki Sportshouse. In six years, both the level of play and the num­ber of top-level play­ers have risen con­sid­er­ably: there will be no shoo-ins in any event.

Emmanuel Bouchard faces Florian Götze in the 2009 IFPA World Championship final. Photo by ~Phipson~. Some rights reserved.

For the first time in foot­bag his­tory, the tour­na­ment will take place on a for­mer Olympic arena. Start­ing on the 31^st of July, Töölö Sports Hall in down­town Helsinki is expected to wel­come more than 200 play­ers from five con­ti­nents to one of the most unusual and cap­ti­vat­ing ath­letic com­pe­ti­tions of the year. Dur­ing the week, ath­letes rep­re­sen­tat­ing France, Ger­many, the USA, Venezuela, Japan, Aus­tralia, and many other coun­tries rival in var­i­ous foot­bag dis­ci­plines for a place in the Sat­ur­day (6^th of August) finals.

So mark down the dates, start book­ing those flights, and join the biggest foot­bag event of the year! Remem­ber also to sub­scribe to all of our tour­na­ment news and updates.