They are the Messi, Ronaldo or Mbappé… on the table.
Since Saturday morning, the Pierre-Duprès sports center in Maisons-Laffitte (Yvelines) has been welcoming the world's best Subbuteo players for the Paris Major.
Nearly 180 competitors from twelve nations gathered for “the Roland-Garros” of this iconic board game for football fans in the 20th century.
A game which continues to bear the usual name of the brand launched in 1947, and which despite the advent of its counterparts on video consoles, has indeed remained alive.
According to the organizers of the competition, it even has a rather promising future.
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Éric Naszalyi is president of the French table football federation.
Former world number one and multiple world champion in the 1990s, he now works to develop a practice which has nearly a thousand licensed players in France and some historic strongholds such as Issy-les-Moulineaux. (Hauts-de-Seine).
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