Next sunday 26 october 12:00 is the second 'worldchampionship' StreetSoccer (ofline).

Last year Arne became 'worldchampion'.

Place: at games-fair Spiel-2003 in Essen (Germany). Booth 10-17 (see place of booth at www.cwali.com ).

Tournament: Knock-out-system.

Prize: a trophy.

Hope to see players from this site there,

Corné

In the “StreetSoccer” 'worldchampionship' sunday we were with 8 players. Last year's worldchampion Arne Hofmann did not 'qualify'. Most of the players you may know from this site.

Here the results of the knock-out-tournament.

Quarter-finals (drawn random):

Monique - Jeroen 4-3

Ronald H. - Uwe 4-3

Ronald L. - Marco 5-2

Corné - Jon 2-0

So I won my quarter-final, but all my players became ill … I had too much to do in my booth at Spiel-2003 so my opponent Jon Power played in the semi-finals.

Semi-finals:

Monique - Ronald H. 6-2

Ronald L. - Jon 4-2

Many goals so far and close matches. The 4-2 semi-final was 2-2 first.

The final was very exciting. Ronald Lokers took the lead and even made 0-2, but supported by the yelling crowd Monique Stap made 1-2 and in the second-last minute 2-2. In the 5th minute of extra-time (that is move 61 or 62 in the game-stats on this site) Monique even scored the winning

3-2!!!

So the trophy did go to the Netherlands this year.

Congratulations to Monique!

Next sunday 12:00 in Eindhoven at games-fair “SpellenSpektakel” I try to defend my “StreetSoccer” Dutch Champion title.

Greetings,

Corné

So, for the neath stats:

Final:

Monique - Ronald L. 3-2 (golden goal)