Dear Fistball friends, 2020 was a challenging year. At the beginning of the year we hoped to strengthen our position within the sports family by: – World Class Events – Global Growth – Women in Sports – Teaming up – Showing our great media potential But it looked different to what we had hoped: Lockdown….
Five questions: What was the best thing about the sporting year of 2020? What about the year gives us courage? Finally: Why will 2021 definitely be better? Lockdown. Training ban. Hygiene concepts everywhere. No spectators in the venues. Canceled championships. Broken dreams. Season resumptions. Season reductions. The COVID-19-year 2020 has also confronted sport – at…
We know that the pandemic has had an enormous impact on both, our private lives and our Fistball lives. As we have recognized throughout the last 3 years, the IFA Fistball World Tour has made a huge contribution to international cooperation and solidarity. And as solidarity being a central issue for the upcoming year we…
Here are the first nominees for the 2020 IFA MEDIA AWARD: – DFBL – Deutsche Faustball-Liga and XinCast for the TV production “Faustball Gold” – Fistball Federation of Australia for “The Fist, The Whole Fist And Nothing But The Fist, So Help Me Pod – The Fistball Australia Podcast” – Faustball Austria and envenMo for…
IFA is proud to announce that we are partner of the TAFISA project “International and European Sport Organisations Activate Citizens” which has been selected by the European Commission and will be co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European union in 2021 – 2022. The project aims to gather International and European Sport Organisations (IESOs)…
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published its 2019 Testing Figures Report (2019 Report), which summarizes the results of all the samples WADA-accredited Laboratories analyzed and reported in WADA’s Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS) in 2019 (see: https://wada-ama.org/en/resources/laboratories/anti-doping-testing-figures-report). “IFA is glad to see that also in 2019 no doping case had to be reported…
Did you know that Fistball will be part of the 7th TAFISA World Sport for All Games, that will take place in Lisbon, in June 18-24 2021? Save the date and become part of a spectacular event that brings together color, dance, games, culture and promotes peace, friendship and lots of fun. Fistball has been…
Yesterday in its 8th meeting the IFA Board of Directors approved the IFA Budget 2021 including a upgraded IFA Development Program and new established IFA Youth Program each worth 25,000 € for 2021. This was approved unanimous also as a result of the COVID-19 crisis and the problems the member federation currently face to support…
It is with greatest sadness that the International Fistball Association (IFA) has learnt that Victor Hugo Körbes, called Vitão passed away in today´s early hours at the age of 67 in Brazil. The 67-year-old striker won the silver medal with the Brazilian national team in 1972, 1976 and 1982. At the 1982 Fistball World Championship…
The International Fistball Association (IFA) awarded the next Fistball highlight event in their last Board of Directors’ meeting: The 2021 Women’s World Championship takes place in Switzerland. The women’s highlight event will be carried out in Rapperswil-Jona from 13 to 17 July 2021. As Chile had to withdraw from hosting the IFA Women’s World Championship…
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