Valletta Subbuteo Club in champions League this weekend
Valletta Subbuteo Club the local Table Football Champions will this weekend be competing in the Champions League in Athens which is organised annually by the Federation of International Sports Table Football.
This is the first experience of a Maltese club in taking part in this competition after have competed in the Europa League 2 years ago.
The team is composed of Derek Conti (Captain), Samuel Bartolo, Joe Borg Bonaci, Mario Camilleri and the UK No 1 Chris Thomas. Missing from the team is the other UK player Christian Short. The Secretary Joe Zammit Pavia will be the club official accompanying the team.
The contingent leaves Malta this evening to Pireaus in Greece where on Saturday the group's preliminaries are played and on Sunday the top four of each group will contest the finals.
The City club is presently ranked in the 7th position within the World Rankings of Table Football.