What does fussball mean? I'm reading an article about managerial styles: " We don't have the arcade games, fussball, pin-pong tables, but I guess it's a cosy kind of non-corporate atmosphere..." I've

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What does fussball mean? I'm reading an article about managerial styles: " We don't have the arcade games, fussball, pin-pong tables, but I guess it's a cosy kind of non-corporate atmosphere..." I've tried to look it up, but no dictionary knows the word fussball...

Jun 18, 2018 3:04 AM

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"Foosball" is a game played on a table that resembles a soccer (football) field. A plastic ball is placed in the center and handles are pushed, pulled and rotated to control the flippers shaped like soccer players in order to hit the ball. Here is an image: https://www.kickfoosballtables.com/product-p/s025y.htm

June 18, 2018

Also known as Table Football (Babyfoot). Table football is also called foosball (compare with the German Fußball "football") and sometimes table soccer, and it is a table-top game that is loosely based on football. Check out this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_football

June 18, 2018

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