Its design inspiration came from a box of matches. The game adopted the name foosball in the United States via German imports that called it "tischfußball" ( lit. Thornton invented a football game that people could play in their homes due to the popularity of association football in Europe. However, foosball's origins date to 1921, when Harold Searles Thornton from the United Kingdom patented the game as "Apparatus for playing a game of table football". Patents for similar table games date back as early as the 1890s in Spain, Europe. Although rules often vary by country and region when the game is played casually, at the competitive level table soccer is played according to a unified code. The aim of the game is to move the ball into the opponent's goal by manipulating rods which have figures attached. Table football, also known as foosball or table soccer, is a table-top game that is loosely based on association football.
Table football during Wikimedia's hackathon Children enjoy table football Single opponents, doubles, or teams of up to 4
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