I'm sure that if anyone would ask you which is the current n°1 country in pool in Europe, you would never think of Belgium. Many won't even know my country.
After the European championship, Belgium came ahead as the country who won the most medals, with 10 medals. 6 of them came from the Khodjaev sisters.
Being a belgium player and teammate with the 2 sisters, i've never been so proud. Wish i had there talent
so sorry for the brag, but it's just an amazing European championship for us and the story behind it .
We had a very rough year in Belgium. With almost sure death of competitive pool in our country, due to some people stealing all the money of the national pool federation , the european board almost kicked Belgium out after not paying them , and some very big names who quit the national federation, the was no federation left. It was almost game over.
Some volunteers started back from scratch. new federation, new members, new formats, and sure it's very hard for them , they lack the experience, and alot of players quit the pool scene due to all the problems we had in the last year, but I'm happy we finally where able to make a deal with Europe so we would be allowed back in and play the EC, start a new federation, etc, and being the n°1 country in Europe this year just shows how hard the passion for pool is in my country.
I'm proud to be part of the Belgium pool scene, proud that after the rough year, we still manage to get these results.
sorry for the mini brag post, but I'm just so happy
Damn I love this sport. It's beautiful on every level. from watching niels feyen play 14-1 race to 1000 at home in front of his webcam, from the high quality matches on the EC with high quality streams, from the league games of amateurs in local barrs (last week the league night fell on the same day of the monthly "striptease night" the bar organizes)... i mean, you can't make that up , to my level of just banging some balls on my home table. It doesn't matter what level you are, it's what pool stands for. having competitive fun and the love of this beautiful game.
After the European championship, Belgium came ahead as the country who won the most medals, with 10 medals. 6 of them came from the Khodjaev sisters.
Being a belgium player and teammate with the 2 sisters, i've never been so proud. Wish i had there talent
so sorry for the brag, but it's just an amazing European championship for us and the story behind it .We had a very rough year in Belgium. With almost sure death of competitive pool in our country, due to some people stealing all the money of the national pool federation , the european board almost kicked Belgium out after not paying them , and some very big names who quit the national federation, the was no federation left. It was almost game over.
Some volunteers started back from scratch. new federation, new members, new formats, and sure it's very hard for them , they lack the experience, and alot of players quit the pool scene due to all the problems we had in the last year, but I'm happy we finally where able to make a deal with Europe so we would be allowed back in and play the EC, start a new federation, etc, and being the n°1 country in Europe this year just shows how hard the passion for pool is in my country.
I'm proud to be part of the Belgium pool scene, proud that after the rough year, we still manage to get these results.
sorry for the mini brag post, but I'm just so happy
Damn I love this sport. It's beautiful on every level. from watching niels feyen play 14-1 race to 1000 at home in front of his webcam, from the high quality matches on the EC with high quality streams, from the league games of amateurs in local barrs (last week the league night fell on the same day of the monthly "striptease night" the bar organizes)... i mean, you can't make that up
, to my level of just banging some balls on my home table. It doesn't matter what level you are, it's what pool stands for. having competitive fun and the love of this beautiful game.
