Table Football. Futbolito. Foosball.

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Britain’s Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (L) watches her husband Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (R) play table football with children during a visit to The Kids Company on September 10, 2009 in Camberwell, London, United Kingdom.

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Director Joshua Goldin and actor Matthew Broderick play foosball during the after party for ‘Wonderful World’ during the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.

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U.S. soldiers play foosball at the recreational hall of Camp Marez in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad.

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Libyan youth play table football outdoors in a small car park late night Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009.

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People play a game of table-soccer on a giant table during a training session prior to the start of the second edition of the World Championships Series, in Eaubonne, outside Paris. More than 600 competitors take part in this tournament organized by the French table-soccer federation

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Pakistani boys play table football on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.

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An Iraqi carpenter adds the plastic players as he puts together a ‘baby-foot’ table at his work shop along Abu Nawas in central Baghdad. The football game tables used to be imported from China, but are now being made locally with wood imported from neighboring Syria and Iran. The cost of the table is around 300 US dollars and the small workshops produces one games table every four days.

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Emiratis play table football during the GITEX information technology fair in Dubai.

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Boys play foosball near an Iraqi army base in a giant square in Baghdad’s Sadr City.

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Children play table soccer at the soccer museum in Sao Paulo. The museum traces football’s transformation from an elite sport to the passion of the masses in this vast, multiracial country of 190 million people. From the jungles of the Amazon to the slums of cities like Rio de Janeiro and Recife, soccer is a constant that unites Brazilians from all walks of life.

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Posted on Sep 10th, 2009 by  FC Uptown 

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  1. Sean says

    Subbuteo > Foosball