Taca taca

In this occasion I'm going to write about Table Football or "Taca taca", the name of this game in my country, Chile. This game is a board game based on football, who plays on a spacial table with wooden players. I think we all know about it.

Although the origins of this game can be related with United Kingdom, France, Germany and Switzerland, I like the history of the origin of the game in Spain. Alexandre Finisterre, the alleged creator of the game, was injured during bombings in Madrid during Spanish civil war. When he saw so many kids in the hospital with him, where some of them can't walk or run, he think in the idea of the Table Football based on Table Tenis and create the game with the help of a friend who was a Basque carpenter.

Finisterre had to go into exile in France after Franco won the Civil War, and in the course he lost the paper of the patent, so we can't now how the dising or shape are. 

After to live in exile in Latin America, he make some changes in the structure of the game and he spread out across the continent. The "Taca taca" has quickly expanded.

In this days, the "Taca taca" could be played with two or four people making two teams. Each team controls four lines of  wooden players. The human players try to use this tiny players to hit the ball into the rival goalkeeper door.

The table usually had eigth lines of wooden players holders in horizontal bars, and the oficial order of the players are standard.

Line 1	Our goalkeeper	1 player	*
Line 2	Our defense	2 players	* *
Line 3	Attacks form counter team	3 players	* * *
Line 4	Our midfielders	5 players	* * * * *
Line 5	Midfielder of counter team	5 players	* * * * *
Line 6	Our forward	3 players	* * *
Line 7	Defense of counter team	2 players	* *
Line 8	Goalkeeper of counter team	1 player	*