Footbag goes European Soccer Championships 2004

ebo · Post by **ebo** » 01 Jul 2004 15:33

from footbag.ch:

"Six european Footag players will introduce a VIP-Crowd to Footbag-
Freestyle at the final day of the European Soccer Champs in Portugal.
Several shows are planned and the Media already showed interest.
The Swiss Television for example is going to air a report about this on
the 2nd or 3rd of July.
The "Footbag goes Euros 2004" team includes: Ali Dastrandj and Verena
Lenneis from Austria, Vasek Klouda from the Czech Republic, Jan
Zimmermann from Germany and Isabelle Widmer and Samuel Hufschmid
from Switzerland."

"Sechs europäische Footbagspielerinnen und -spieler werden am Finaltag der Fussball-Europameisterschaft in Portugal einem hochkarätigen VIP-Publikum Footbag-Freestyle näherbringen. Mehrere Shows sind geplant und die anwesenden Medien zeigten bereits grosses Interesse. So sendet das Schweizer Fernsehen am 2. oder 3. Juli einen Bericht über diesen Abstecher nach Portugal. Zum "Footbag goes Euros 2004"-Team gehören: Ali Dastrandj, Verena Lenneis, Vasek Klouda, Jan Zimmermann, Isabelle Widmer und Samuel Hufschmid. Footbag.ch bleibt am Bag und hält auch auf dem Laufenden."

pillar · Post by **pillar** » 01 Jul 2004 17:08

That sounds awesome! I wish they would air a report or something over here as well, but I doubt they will. Good job, whoever arranged this one.

King Monkey · Post by **King Monkey** » 01 Jul 2004 23:15

ahh man that is so awesome. You European footbaggers really know how to promote and run an event. Thats just the best thing ive heard, congratulations on such a good job! i would love to see video of this demo if there will be any... i hope these VIPs are ready for Vaska

they might try and sign him to there soccer teams lol

who are the VIPs, do you u know?

sNale · Post by **sNale** » 01 Jul 2004 23:30

Chopper wrote:who are the VIPs, do you u know?

I guess they will be uefa officals and some retired soccer legends

ebo · Post by **ebo** » 02 Jul 2004 00:15

Yeah, nothing official on that yet. However, I guess the swiss television
broadcast will be on footbag.ch soon

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 04 Jul 2004 22:12

So, did anyone watch the game and see them in the background or anything?

sNale · Post by **sNale** » 04 Jul 2004 22:23

I saw the game (Greece!!!) but there were no footbagers around...

NotHisRealName · Post by **NotHisRealName** » 05 Jul 2004 20:14

bummer

KronoKicker · Post by **KronoKicker** » 05 Jul 2004 21:26

yah i watched it to.. i wanted poland to win!! but it was a good game and the one goal was a nice shot.

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 05 Jul 2004 21:30

While it would have been very impressive if Poland won, I imagine it would have quite difficult for them to do it. I didn't even consider that they might win going into the game, which was incidently between Portugal and Greece

quadgun · Post by **quadgun** » 05 Jul 2004 21:34

hey,
if there was a rule that the winner of the tournament had to play the last team they lost to to keep the cup .... then Greece would now be playing Poland

because the last game Greece played before going into the tournament was Poland, and Greece lost 1-0 to Poland

so there take that

::edit:: to stay on topic .... will their be any footage from the demo?

sNale · Post by **sNale** » 05 Jul 2004 23:03

K-dOUble wrote: ::edit:: to stay on topic .... will their be any footage from the demo?

That would be great! I guess they totally impressed the soccer guys

pillar · Post by **pillar** » 06 Jul 2004 02:19

if there was a rule that the winner of the tournament had to play the last team they lost to to keep the cup .... then Greece would now be playing Poland

Actually, they lost to Russia during the tournament too..

But hey, did anyone see any footbagging in swiss or wherever they were going to show it? They didn't show it here in Finland. What about the players that attended - how was it?

ptaku · Post by **ptaku** » 06 Jul 2004 02:42

KronoKicker wrote:yah i watched it to.. i wanted poland to win!! but it was a good game and the one goal was a nice shot.

Poland didn't play in Euro this year (Poland did'nt play on Euro never) my dear friend.
But: Ju? za cztery lata, ju? za cztery lat Polska b?dzie mistrzem ?wiata

That mean's that Poland will be World Champion in 4 years' (what is imposible, because WC are for 2 years

)

mr.alex · Post by **mr.alex** » 06 Jul 2004 03:07

In 4 years Austria will be the next Euro-Champion because the EUROs 08 take place in Austria and Switzerland.

back to topic:
the footbaggers who did the shows will come back today I think, maybe I can get you some more info soon.

edited to attach signature

sNale · Post by **sNale** » 06 Jul 2004 11:25

I hope somebody put the show on tape!

quadgun · Post by **quadgun** » 06 Jul 2004 15:45

sNale wrote:I hope somebody put the show on tape!

yea same here

*Jethro* · Post by ***Jethro*** » 07 Jul 2004 00:27

i was rooting for the czechs because that's were all the real good footbaggers live until they got kicked off.Does anyone know if vasek can actually play soccer??

ebo · Post by **ebo** » 07 Jul 2004 11:28

K-dOUble wrote:to stay on topic .... will their be any footage from the demo?

I guess the swiss television aired it. i'm sure the swiss folks had
an eye on that. any portuguese players on the board?

reni · Post by **reni** » 07 Jul 2004 15:26

the swiss tv couldn't film the footbag show because the got troubles with the swiss football association and had to leave portugal! maybe you heard about this spittle-story with this swiss player "alex frei". but however they got filmed by a german sport channel (DSF) and some other portuguese media stations.