Clubs League 2008-2009
The MTFSA will be hosting the Clubs league for Season 2008-2009 on Sunday 20th September 2009.
This will be held at the Marija Assunta School Hall.
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FISTF World Cup - Rotterdam 2009
Sixteen players sparsed in various categories represented Malta in Rotterdam for the FISTF World CUp. Team for the Open, Veteran and Under 15 categories also participated successfully and all Maltese players were of constant tread to all coutries.
The players -
Back roq from left - Melanie Fenech, Charles Aquilina, Samuel Bartolo, Massimo Cremona, Mark Gauci, Anthony Sapiano
Standing from left - Steve Austin, Hansel Mallia, Joseph Mifsud, Joe Zammit Pavia, Derek Conti, Nicholas Sciberras.
Sitting from left - Darren Bezzina, Angelo Borg, Adam Gatt, Darren Carabott.
Melanie Fenech lost at Semi final stage
Mark Gauci reaches the semis loosing to Daniele Bertelli 1-2
Malta Under 15 reached the semis with just 3 players... well done boys!
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SEASON 2008/09
Mark Gauci wins the Maltese title for the second consecutive time.
Josef Camilleri hails the 1st division in style.
Circuit 3 - 15th March '09
Open Category
Joe Mifsud beats Adrian Bonnici 2-1
Veteran Category
Joe Mifsud beats Adrian Bonnici 2-1
U/15 Category
Angelo Borg beats Darren Bezzina 3-2
U/19 Category
Angelo Borg wins this category to make a double
SEASON 2008/09
Circuit 2 - 13th December '08
Open Category
Hansel Mallia wins the 2nd Event beating Derek Conti 2-1 in the final.
Veterans Category
Adrian Bonnici wins the Veterans
Under 19 Category
Angelo Borg wins this category over Matthew Pace 3-2
Under 15 Category
Angelo Borg wins by one point ahead of Matthew Pace
SEASON 2008/09
Circuit 1 - 19th October'08
Open Category
Local champion Mark Gauci won the 1st MTFSA competition winning 2-0 over Hansel Mallia
Veterans Category
Joe Mifsud wins the Veterans
Under 19 Category
Angelo Borg wins this category over Nicholas Sciberras 4-0
Under 15 Category
Darren Bezzina obtains shoot-out victory to win this youth category
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MTFSA Calendar 2008/2009
19th October ’08 – MTFSA event 1
13th December ’08 – MTFSA event 2
31st January ’09 – Grand Prix (Teams)
1st February ’09 – Grand Prix (Individuals)
28th February ’09 – I.Open (Teams)
1st March ’09 – I.Open (Individuals)
15th March ’09 – MTFSA event 3
19th April ’09 – MTFSA Knock Out
17th May ’09 – MTFSA FINALS
Special CONGRATULATIONS from the MTFSA
Congratulations to Derek Conti who got married Saturday
6th September to Elaine. We all wish you the best of happiness JJ !!
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MTFSA Annual General Meeting
Wednesday 3rd September 2008, the MTFSA hosts the Annual General Meeting along with the presentation of 2007/2008. After the presentation of the trophies to the winners, the AGM was held. The interest in our sport is decreasing to become very minimum and the assistance to the MTFSA committee is almost none. Joe Zammit Pavia, Hansel Mallia, Joe Borg Bonaci and Charles Aquilina will be the new BoD for the upcoming season. From the meeting, it clearly evolved that if Hansel Mallia had not to submit himself for the committee no national competitions will be held as no one is interested in hosting any competition. besides having almost 50 members in its list, only 7 attended to the meeting and disappointment was clear on the BoD members' faces.
The next season will kick off in the 3rd weekend of October where at the new premises in Hamrun, the 1st Local Event will be held to obtain points for the final day and end of the season to be held in May 2009.
Due to the Italian League, the MTFSA had to change the Grand Prix date set for April and acceptance to the new proposed date is encountered from the International Federation, the FISTF. Until then, the 2008/2009 calendar cannot be issued. Further news to come.
The presentation video can be seen HERE
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Mark Gauci crowned Maltese King
During the third weekend of May, the MTFSA came to its end of season championship when at the Victor Tedesco Stadium, the Malta Championship was organized. A total of eight players played the league against each other in this one day event. All matches were tight as all players have been recently showing great performance. The Premier division was made up from Joe Mifsud, Derek Conti, Joe Borg Bonaci, Hansel Mallia, Samuel Bartolo, Mark Gauci, Charles Aquilina and Adrian Bonnici.
During the first matches nothing was yet decided as all players lost points against each others’ opponents. However after five games, Mallia was leading the table with 11 points winning over Mifsud 3-1 and Bonaci 2-1, followed by Mifsud with 10 points and Gauci and Bartolo aligned with both 8 points. The last matches meant to be decisive and the direct matches were scheduled. This meant that several changes took place with the title bouncing from one player to another with Gauci, Mallia, Mifsud, Bartolo and Bonaci all heading for the final run.
However, Gauci kept his nerves and obtained two consecutive wins to leave his direct opponents stuck to lost points in draw matches to gain lead and finishing winner of this competition and crowned Maltese Champion. With this title, Gauci will be the top Maltese players representing Malta in the individual competition of the World Cup this summer. SamuelBartolo will be the second top Maltese after winning the Malta Cup, while Massimo Cremona obtained direct qualification from the World Rankings.
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Matthew Pace wins the U/15
After a thrilling final run in the organised events this season, Matthew Pace confirmed his talent winning the U/15 championship just after winning the U/12 World Cup in France last year. The U/15 Championship was based on three local events of which who won most points would win the title. This competition involved 9 local youth talents but Pace showed character along the events to end on top of tha table and winning the title for the first time.
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Josef Camilleri wins the 1st Division title
In the most easiest way, Josef Camilleri won the 1st Division, having the better off Joe Zammit Pavia who managed the 2nd place. Unfortunately, this division had an incredible lack of participants due to unattended players who had better commitments. The matches involved the players were all won by Camilleri who did not qualify to play for the Premier Division for just some minimal points.
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Samuel Bartolo wins the Malta Knock Out for the 2nd season
Samuel Bartolo obtains his second season in a row winning the Malta Knock Out and a direct World Cup qualification in the individual category.
Although a limited number of participants took part, the Malta Knock Out was held at the Victor Tedesco Stadium. The winner of this competitions obtained qualification to represent
In the final, Bartolo performed one of his best matches and by half time he had already obtained a decisive 3-0 lead against Aquilina. In the second half he controlled the match and besides conceding two goals for a final score of 3-2 he managed to obtain his first Knock Out in style.
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Local Circuit Winners
- The MTFSA committee is to be announced during next Annual General Meeting to be held soon. More information to be adviced.
- Now that the season 2005/2006 is over, the new season will soon take its start and Maltese players Joseph Mifsud and Massimo Cremona will be involved in an International event to be held in October in Cardiff
- EUROPA CUP - Several Maltese players will be involved in this year's Europa Cup to be held in Lisbon.
- Transfers: Some of the Maltese players were also involved in this summer's transfer market. These include :
Massimo Cremona joined ACS Perugia (Italy)
Joseph Mifsud joined Atlas (Greece)
Mark Gauci joined Atlas (Greece)
Samwel Bartolo joined Atlas (Greece)
Stefan Pace joined Palermo (Italy)
Other players were confirmed by their respective foreign clubs. These are :
Hansel Mallia AS Hennuyer (Belgium)
Charles Aquilina Catania (Italy)
Jean Karl Tabone Palermo (Italy)
Derek Conti AS Roma (Italy)
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Friday night table football comes to the international calendar when
Malta hosts a pre-weekend FISTF Challenger event in October.
The tournament will be organised by the college situated St Martin's
TFC in Birkirkira on Friday 27th October, where Open, U19 and
maybe U15 competitions are to be staged on six pitches.
It comes after a previous attempt to run a satellite event over two
midweek evenings at the college last June was cancelled due to
problems with the date and the availability of players.
The Challenger is one of several tournaments added to the
calendar in the past week.
The Verviers Grand Prix - International Open for teams - has been
rearranged for 3rd and 4th February, which will be exactly three months
before the host club's 40th birthday.
Meanwhile the Open of Traiskrichen will take place in Austria on 14th and 15th April.