Singapore Sports Council presents Bossaball demo sessions, initiations and tournaments at Singapore’s largest water-sporting festival Waterfest 2008 as a stand-alone event.
The Bossaball Xxperience @ WaterFest Singapore 2008
Date : 30-31 Aug 2008
Place : Emerald Pavillion @ Siloso Beach. Sentosa Island
MediaCorp TV Channel U Bossaball in Waterfest 2008 campaign :
Item about bossaball in a tv show named On The Beat on Chinese-language channel MediaCorp TV Channel U Singapore, presented by Singapore superstar Derrick Doh.
Aired in the last week of August, as part of the WaterFest Singapore 2008 campaign.
Press article in Chinese-language newspaper Lianhe Zaobao The article talks about Bossababall’s presence on Waterfest, the fact that 100’s of people played the game on the event, bossaball’s history in Singapore and it explains the rules, how to play, score system, …
September 6 :
Ghent, Sports City / Sportief Gent
Ghent’s city centre is transformed into a mega sports arena with activities and presentations of sports of all kinds. Bossaball demos and initiations.
September 21 :
Car Free Sunday Bruges / Autoloze zondag Brugge
Bruges’ city centre is completely car free during the day. Concerts and activities on various locations in the city. Main spot for the sports events is ’t Zand (city’s main square) with bossaball / deathride / streetsoccer / panna football and extreme trial-bike.
September 28 :
Kappellekesfeesten : Brecht town centre : 13.00 – 20.00
Media : De Standaard : Bossaball in the Olympics - London 2012
Daily Flemish newspaper De Standaard published this video about bossaball on its website. Remarkable is the fact it states that bossaball should be an Olympic Sport by London 2012.
VRT één (national tv Belgium) : 1000 zonnen.
Item about a friendly bossaball match between a team from Belgium and a team from The Netherlands, aired in July 2008. 1000zonnen.een.be/bossabal
August 24 - Bossaball on Berlin sports Day :
The Turngemeinde in Berlin 1848 E.V features bossaball on this summer’s edition of the Berlin Sports Day. All sports and activities are grouped around themes. Bossaball is presented together with gymnastics, capoeira, cheerleading and samba drumming.
August 25 - Bossaball Indoor Club Berlin rbb tv recording :
Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin’s tv station, is recording a videoclip about bossaball in Bossaball Indoor Club ( SPORTHALLE an der Wuhle ).
August 26 + 27 + 28 - Local Competition training sessions :
Bossaball Indoor Club Berlin organizes 3 days of intensive training for various teams in preparation of the local Bossaball Tournament later this year.
This is an item about bossaball during the Weather Forecast (RBB Wetter) with images shot during the High School Sports Fest 2008 Berlin on July 3, 2008. (in German)
There’s also a recent series of German press articles about bossaball on bossaball.de/presse
As we already posted here before, bossaball was invited at the dutch fanbase site “Oranjecamping” in Switzerland during the EURO 2008 UEFA European football Championship.
One day, various ex-international soccer players from the Netherlands paid a visit to the fans of the national team and were spending some time on the domain.
They saw some people playing bossaball and just couldn’t resist.
They jumped onto the bossaball court and started having a ball.
Check the video to see the action.
Names of the players : John van den Brom : Ajax Amsterdam, Istanbulspor, Dutch national team Aron Winter : Ajax Amsterdam, Lazio Roma, Dutch national team Richard Witschge : Ajax Amsterdam, FC Barcelona, Dutch national team
European demo players showed off their skills and the first local Bossaball team was presented to the audience, national press and tv.
These are some images of the event.
These are some newspaper articles (in Arabic) :
And this is a YouTube video with footage shot during a training session in preparation of the actual event.
This is a video clip with footage shot at the Bossaball Festival Slovenia on June 25.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je6B4n44s8M
Red Bull sponsored the event.
On the following images you can see that the samba referee scoreboard and dj booth was installed on the legendary “Red Bull Defender” all purpose vehicle.
Bossaball was featured on the Dutch National Police Sports Day (Landelijke Politie Sportdag) in Utrecht, Netherlands on June 24.
Over 500 officers from police corpses all over the country gathered up to compete in a bossaball tournament. Matches were played simultaneously on 3 courts.
Nice bossaball Singapore promo video on YouTube with images shot in May 2008.
Looks like the local demo team, although still pretty young, is coming up to speed.
As you can see, the ball control foot skills of some of these South East Asian bossaball players are developing in a pretty unique way. The style is closely related to “Sepak Takraw“, which is a century-old local kick volleyball tradition. This makes their kick approach different from European and Brazilian soccer and juggling related bossaball styles.
We are really looking forward to see this style advance and develop into a special local flavour.
A group of students @ the KHLim ( member of the University Association Catholic University Leuven, Belgium ) is organizing a sports event, named AllStars Peer 2008, on the first of May. The aim is to present upcoming sports and games like Snowtubing, Rolski Laser Biathlon, and BeachTennis to their fellow students. AllStars Peer 2008 also appears to feature Bossaball.
We came across a 3D presentation / walkthrough of the event on YouTube, which you can view right here :
Google just pointed me at an animated gif presentation hidden somewhere deep in www.bossaball.com.sg.
It’s a collection of pictures from bossaball events organized by our friends from Singapore in the past few months and impressions of the European Summer Tour 2007 some of their players participated in.
Today we want to show you this nice little bossaball court clay model somebody crafted.
It appeared next to a small article presenting bossaball on www.ragazza.es.
Does anybody know who made this and if there are more images ?
The article talks about Bossababall’s presence on Waterfest, the fact that 100’s of people played the game on the event, bossaball’s history in Singapore and it explains the rules, how to play, score system, …
Red Bull sponsored the event.
