Tom Shirley visiting T.B.T.S.C.

Tom Shirley from the Chattanooga Subbuteo Club was in St. Petersburg with his family for vacations.He took the opportunity for visiting our club and playing a couple of friendlies with Alex, it was fun and a pleasure to see him again at the other side of the pitch after almost two years [ Turkey Classic 2007 in Savannah].
Hopefully soon we will see him for a tournament, may be with part of his clubmates.

Sunshine Cup 09/27/09

The first A.S.A. open tournament of the T.B.T.S.C. was played at the Batacchi grounds the last Sunday of September, it saw the participation of 11 players with Andrea Di Palma and Johnatan Schantz as newcomers on the A.S.A circuit, unfortunately Josh Knight was not present cause of the Flu-bug,that affected most of the participants.

The format of the group stage was 4 groups of 3 players each, unfortunately group A saw just two players [Josh Knight last minute withdrawal], with Alex Batacchi winning the group and Ludovico Boscaino arriving second;

Group B saw Isabel Batacchi coming on top winning her games 3-0 vs Nazareno Boscaino and 2-0 vs Sandra Boscaino, the latter arriving second on goal differential after her 0-0 with Nazareno;

Sandro Tarozzi dominate group C winning 6-0 vs Johnatan Schantz and 3-0 vs Andrea Di Palma second for his win 2-0 with Schantz, and if he would learn to keep his back line could be already a fantastic player;

Group D, all a family matter, saw the seeded Max Boscaino having a real bad day on shooting and arriving second after two 0-0 vs Federico and Teo Boscaino, the latter arriving first for his hard fought 2-0 vs. Fede.

The Mary Jane or consolation tournament final saw Federico Boscaino beating Nazareno 2-1 in a shoot-out, after a very tight regulation period and two 5 minutes halves of overtime[2-2].

• Quarters of final


• Alex Batacchi - Sandra Boscaino 3-0


• Teo Boscaino - Andrea Di Palma 0-0 [2-1] on shots


• Isabel Batacchi - Max Boscaino 1-0


• Sandro Tarozzi- Ludo Boscaino 6-0

Alex Batacchi had tough time to score on Sandra which defended very well, Isabel won with Max in the late stages of the game, Teo vs Andrea was the game to watch 0-0 after regulation and 10 minutes overtime with chances on both sides and then a breath-taking shoot-out with the Teo winner with a fantastic chip shot over Andrea Goalkeeper.Sandro in excellent form dominate Ludovico .

In the Semifinal Alex beat Teo 5-0 and Isabel beat Sandro 1-0 but the " Taruzza man" had a couple of great chances and fought hard to the end.

Sandro won the final for the third place 1-0 in overtime with 30 seconds left, and admitted of being lucky vs a fantastically improved Teo Boscaino.

Alex won the final over Isabel 4-0.

All in all a great day of Subbuteo and fun, that saw most of the participants improved their game and looking forward to the fifth installement of the Turkey Classic.

The Sunshine Cup pictures can be seen at http://Tampabaytablesoccerclub.shutterfly.com/.