- The name “foosball” comes from the German word for football, “fussball”.
- Different countries have different names for foosball, including table football, table soccer, footzy, kicker, biliardino and babyfoos.
- An American soldier brought the game to the United States.
- In the 1970s, gangsters used the hollow-bodied foosball tables to store drugs.
- The most money won playing foosball…. 1 million dollars!
- Also in the 1970s, foosball became so popular that it was featured in Sports Illustrated!
- The first foosball tournament in the United States took place in 1972.
- The longest Foosball game lasted 61 hours and 17 minutes.
- The longest foosball table ever made was fabricated in Turin, Italy in 2015. The table measured a staggering 121.40m long, and it is designed to hold 424 players.
- The ball can move at speeds up to 35 mph!
- Pac-Man caused the decline in foosball’s popularity.
- Human foosball is growing in popularity