As a journalist, he had travelled to Paris for work to report on a table football tournament.
Although patents for similar games may exist from as far back as the 1890s, the game of table football as we know it today was first invented by Harold Searles Thornton in 1922 and patented in 1923 ...
The ITSF is responsible for the Rules of table soccer, as well as the technical specifications for tables. ... The ITSF represents the sport of table soccer and defends its interests in its relations with national and international sport authorities and institutions.
