A.S.A National Championship -Alexandria, Va - June 5-6 2010

The only participant of the T.B.T.S.C. at the National event was Alex Batacchi, joining the competition after months of inactivity.

He participated in the Open National tournament, in the Veterans one and in the Virginia Cup for teams and another couple of Unofficial tournaments .

The Veterans tournament was played with a group format, where the first two classified were going to play the final for the Championship, usual format of Group stage and then knock out rounds for the Open one.

He started his fourth National Championship participation with his first Veterans game vs Dewey La Rochelle winning 5-0.

In the Open category he was seeded in Group D with Andrew Brister [WTSL] - Matt Steinmuller [MSC] - Dewey La Rochelle [ WTSL], winning his group with 9 points [3wins]; 5-0 to Andrew, 5-0 to Matt and 3-1 to Dewey.

Great highlight the victory over Matt Steinmuller in a tight game that he resolved with a superb shooting performance, and honestly the result at the end did not reflect the playing on the pitch.

Alex getting ready on the purple Harchester United pitch that will see all his Open group games.

Before continuing his Open adventure he played two tough games in the Veterans Group; the first with Gregg Deinhart 1-1 and the second with Paul Eyes 2-2 coming back from a 0-2 deficit in a match full of "high class touches" from both players.

Alex and Paul in action from their Veterans Group game.

Open Quarter of Final versus Michael Tillman, as usual a great game, very tight that could have gone either way but our representant missed his chances and was defeated 1-2, Michael went on to loose the final at the Golden Goal against the Super Champ Zach Walker.


Last game for the Veterans Group so Alex beating Andrew Zunino 5-0 and waiting for the result between Paul and Gregg to see if he was going to play the final.


The second day of the Nationals saw the Virginia Cup for teams, Alex as usual was playing as a free agent, his team eliminated in the Group stage, with him playing several fantastic players:

0-0 with Stuart Russell [MSC], 0-3 with Zach Walker [WTSL] and beating 1-0 the legend Rick Wilcox [WTSL].

Last game of his National adventure, the final of the Veterans category, a fantastic game with Paul Eyes, a game that was called at "European level", great performance even though he came up short , loosing 0-1.

Paul and Alex posing with the National Trophy before the Veterans final.




Another fantastic weekend of Subbuteo with Alex adding another National Runner up finishing at his collection [ 2008 Team with SOCAL , 2009 Open individual] , so this year Vice Champion in the Team Competition with SCC United and in the Veterans Category.





Alex National Veterans Vice Champion

Corsendonk Cup - 1/17/2010

The Corsendonk Cup was played Sunday January the 17th at the Batacchi grounds and saw the first games played on the new "mini Old Trafford" with 9 participants in total.

We had some late withdrawals and unfortunately this time our Savannah friends did not join us.

The tournament saw the participation of Larry Fryer [M.S.C.] , that was in Florida to attend a baseball umpire school and our friend played his best Subbuteo ever.

The format was a little different from the past tournaments: two groups one of 5 players [ Alex Batacchi, Larry Fryer, Roberto Mattoni, Teo Boscaino, and Ludovico Boscaino] and the second with four[Isabel Batacchi, Max Boscaino, Federico Boscaino, Nazareno Boscaino], then Quarters of final, the loosers of these played for the M.J. trophy .

Group "A" saw Alex Batacchi as Winner and Larry Fryer finished second [after winning a very close one against Teo Boscaino], Group "B" Isabel in first and Max Boscaino in second place.

Larry and Alex playing their Group game on the new "Mini Old Trafford".
Quarters of final -

• Alex Batacchi - Federico Boscaino 6-0
• Larry Fryer - Nazareno Boscaino 1-0
• Isabel Batacchi - Roberto Mattoni 1-0



Max winning goal on shots

• Max Boscaino - Teo Boscaino 1-1 [ Max winning on shots[2-1] after a fantastic game between father and son.

The Consolation tournament or Mary Jane saw Teo Boscaino as Winner with victories over Roberto Mattoni [1-0] and Nazareno Boscaino [1-0] -
Alex won his Semifinal with Max almost crusing after scoring a couple of goals in the first five minutes, instead in the other Semifinal was drama.
Isabel Batacchi attacked Larry Fryer in the first half missing a couple of good chances, then Larry with a great defensive plan and good ball possession was able to survive and finish the regulation 0-0, in the Overtime [ they were played two halves of five minutes each] the play was very much even and with no scores ,they went to shots: here, Larry's greater experience gave him the edge winning 1-0 and going to the final.


The final for Third place was won by Isabel 3-0 over Max.





Larry and Alex  before the final



In the final Larry tried the same tactics against Alex and was able to close the first half just 1 goal down, but in the second half gave away a cheap second goal and at that point was game over, Alex won 5-0 with a last fantastic goal on a rolling corner....sweet !!!!-

Another fantastic day of Subbuteo at the Batacchi grounds and at the end Larry teached everybody a lesson at " Dominion".












Larry proudly pose with his trophy and the original that was played in Farmington CT in 2006