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Sports table football is a competitive game based on the table top game of Subbuteo. It was more commonly marketed by Subbuteo Sports Games as 'Table Soccer'. It is administered globally by the Federation of International Sports Table Football, or FISTF. While the inspiration for STF comes from Subbuteo, but the S is used for SPORT and not for the products' name. The playing rules and playing equipment employed, mark it out as a separate game (sport) in its own right. FISTF was a result of negotiations between FISA (Federation of International Subbuteo Associations) members and ETF (European Tablefootball Association) members to unify the sports table football (STF) world into one governing body. FISA was actually run through Waddingtons (Subbuteo Sports Games Ltd.) and ETF through its Member Nations on a democratic basis. FISTF is an independent federation and a non-profit world wide organization. The World of "Subbuteo" and "Sports table football" was unified with rules, regulations, equipment and friendships. Individual players and nations were now able to see competitions to be organised under FISTF banner. See below the Hall of Fame of winners of the FISTF, FISA and ETF (1990-1993 as ESTF) competitions. ==Playing Rules== The 3 Dimensional model footballers are referred to as 'Figures', the human operators are referred to as 'Players'. Sports table football rules are now laid down by FISTF, and based on the original Subbuteo rules (way back to the 1950s), with ETF (1960s) and FISA (1970s) versions of rules, used to set up modern playing rules. Significant number of changes where made in 1992, when FISTF started as the world federation. Today the playing rules are stable and in little steps adapted with experience of playing situations. Within this fantastic table Sport, table football is played in miniature version. All the aspects of real football (or soccer in the USA) can be simulated with flicking or snipping the figurine and play the round ball. Fast or slow, defensive or offensive play can be used for tactic. A through-in, a free kick, a penalty and a corner can be played. Shots on goal can be low or high, but must be under the crossbar in order to score a goal. A foul may be committed by an attacking player as well as by the defensive player. The goalkeeper is allowed to save shots and may deflect the ball for a corner kick, throw-in or back into the playing area. Actually all "FIFA" football playing rules are transferred into the miniature version of the well known Subbuteo (a.k.a. Sports table football, or Table Soccer) game. Referees take decisions according to the playing rules, such as the offside rule (law), confirming a goal, foul play, corner-kick, free-kick or a throw-in). The "only" main difference on the green playing pitch (synthetic or cotton material), are the shooting zones in front of both goals for Sports table football. The Shooting zone, is the zone in which the ball (with full diameter) must have entered, to score a legitimate goal. The playing pitch is divided into 4 equal sectors (according to rules normally each 300mm). Dimensions vary though. As soon as the ball crossed the shooting zone line, the ball may be shot at goal by the attacking player. For the defensive player, it is important to keep the ball outside of the shooting area. Exactly this sport aspect, makes it extremely interesting for players and teams. The better you control and play the ball to the break through the defensive figurine positions, the higher the chance to score. Everybody can bring in his own idea of play (within the playing rules of course). The ball can be flicked three times in a row with one and the same figure. A fourth touch in a row is illegal. The passing between to different attacking figures is necessary (like in football or soccer). The offside position (like in football or soccer) can be forced through the tactical play of the defensive player, who may "flick" a defensive figure away from the Goal line, to put an attacking figure into offside position. The attacking player can then announce "tick" to indicate verbally, that he will "flick" his offside positioned figure into "onside" position. Then normal play carries on. Offside is the same as in football. Two defensive players must be between the Goal line and the first attacking figure. The figures' bases may be polished with a cloth with a liquid, to slide perfectly on the playing surface. This ensures a high standard of accuracy of play, whilst simultaneously limiting the ability to spin the figure. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sports table football」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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