"I'm not much of a football fan but I like pool, and this combination is very interesting," said Ziegelova, who teamed up with her boyfriend, Lukas.
Clad in black-and-yellow shirts complete with numbers and names, they lost their opening league tie against a team led by Jiri Novotny, who organized the competition along with a friend.
Novotny is no stranger to ball games, having scored 20 goals in 89 matches for the Czech Republic national futsal team, according to the Czech Football Association website.
"I saw a video on YouTube where two Americans played the game in a garden, drinking beer and doing a barbecue," said the wiry 28-year-old futsal defender.
"So we designed the table, set up a footballpool association and started calling it a sport," he said, adding this was the first such competition in the world.
Footballpool pits two teams with two players against each other, with each player taking on each opponent in two matches.
That was the formula used at the first world championships at a shopping mall in Prague.
"We had 70 teams from countries including Algeria, Kyrgyzstan, Brazil, Afghanistan, Germany and Slovakia," said Novotny, adding that a Czech-Slovak team won.
Prague is also scheduled to host the next worlds in February 2018.
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Footballpool－a combination of soccer and billiards－uses inflatable colored balls and a 'pitch' with six holes. The world's first footballpool league has just kicked off in Prague, following its inaugural world championships in the Czech capital in February.
Clad in black-and-yellow shirts complete with numbers and names, they lost their opening league tie against a team led by Jiri Novotny, who organized the competition along with a friend.
Novotny is no stranger to ball games, having scored 20 goals in 89 matches for the Czech Republic national futsal team, according to the Czech Football Association website.
"I saw a video on YouTube where two Americans played the game in a garden, drinking beer and doing a barbecue," said the wiry 28-year-old futsal defender.
"So we designed the table, set up a footballpool association and started calling it a sport," he said, adding this was the first such competition in the world.
Footballpool pits two teams with two players against each other, with each player taking on each opponent in two matches.
That was the formula used at the first world championships at a shopping mall in Prague.
"We had 70 teams from countries including Algeria, Kyrgyzstan, Brazil, Afghanistan, Germany and Slovakia," said Novotny, adding that a Czech-Slovak team won.
Prague is also scheduled to host the next worlds in February 2018.
Read more here --> It's a Hole Different Ball Game
Footballpool－a combination of soccer and billiards－uses inflatable colored balls and a 'pitch' with six holes. The world's first footballpool league has just kicked off in Prague, following its inaugural world championships in the Czech capital in February.
