Apart from the top volleyball international showdown, the tournament features bossaball as a major side event. More info about the event, the program, the teams, the side events, … : www.2009youthec.nl

Everybody’s welcome to experience what bossaball is all about.
Try-out a game, watch demoes by international star players, form a team with a bunch of friends and join a tournament on Sunday.

Want to make sure there’s place for you and your friends ? Teams with 4-5 participants can sign up by sending a mail to : julian_slezak@gmx.net

More info on Sport & Vital

Bossaball Club Antwerp, located in the sports facilities of the University of Antwerp,
features the “Challenge The National Bossaball-Team” Event on Wednesday, February 18.

This activity takes place during the “University Week of Sports“

The event is hosted and supported by the Antwerp Sports Association of University and Colleges.

Decathlon presents bossaball demonstrations in one of Brazil’s biggest sports facilities, “Clube Esperia” on November 30. The event, the “Dia do Associado”, is a day of cultural and sports activities, presentations, lectures, workshops, …
More info on : esperia.com.br (in Portugese).

Bossaball Sundown / Johnson & Johnson Tour.

Bossaball tours the “praias do Litoral Paulista” (the beaches North of São Paulo) between January 9 and February 25, in a campaign of sunblock product Sundown by Johnson & Johnson.

Kuwait times : Brazil tromps to victory in Zain Int’l Bossaball Tournament.

For better readibility, here’s the text on the Kuwait Times website : Article online

Bossaball event on EID Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation.

This is a tv item from Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC).

Bossaball is featured on the WakeBoard World Cup Singapore 2008 event , organized by the International Waterski Federation, which is the final event of Waterfest 2008, on October 12, between 11am and 6pm.

Bossaball is set up on a truly unique location, the iconic Marina Bay Floating Stadium in downtown Singapore, the world’s largest floating stage, chosen to be the location of the Opening Ceremonies of the Summer 2010 Youth Olympic Games, with a gallery to accommodate 30,000 spectators.

Links related to the event :
- singaporesports.sg
- wakeboardworldcup.com
- waterskiandwakeboardworldcup.com
- bossaball.com.sg

You can watch a live webcam over Marina Bay on marina-bay.sg.

Location is  sports and events facility “Merwestein” in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands.

More info on : musicandsports.nl

BOSSABALL RIYADH EID EVENT (OCTOBER 1st - 3rd)

The Municipality of Riyadh  presents bossaball in this year’s celebration program for Eid Al-fitr,  which marks the end of the fasting of Ramadan.  Riyadh Eid Festival is the most prestigious show in the Middle East.

Bossaball initiations, demonstrations and matches take place at the indoor hall of the “Prince Faisal Bin Fahd Stadium in the Al Malaz Quarter on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of October 2008, between 4pm and midnight.

More info about the festival on alriyadh.gov.sa/1 and the following pages.

BOSSABALL JEDDAH EID EVENT (OCTOBER 4th - 8th)

Bossaball shows will be organized in Jeddah at TRIPLE M Sports Facility at King Abdul Aziz Road Jeddah on the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th & 8th of October 2008.

Both events feature two international Bossaball Master teams from Brazil and Europe.

Coca Cola Greece’s local natural fruit juice brand Amita Motion presents the Motionistas Festival 2008 in OAKA, the Olympic Athletic Center of Athens, on September 19.

Motionistas presents a day of live hiphop, electronic and pop music ( Kwan, Mikro, Stavento, Nikos Michas, Stereo Mike feat. Shaya, Kostas Martakis, Decibell, …) and extreme sports (speed climbing, in the air, roll n roll, crazy wheels, 4×4, bossaball, … )

On September 12 at the SMU Campus

Sports Fiesta comprises a series of land games and activities such as street-soccer, bossaball and dodge ball. Friendly matches are organised for students to try their hand at the sports in a recreational way. Done ala fiesta style, with the whole place converted into a large playground, this year’s event consists of five main games, as well as an inter-CCA jousting match.

Singapore Institute of Management Campus Launch

On September 18 at the SIM Ulu Pandan Campus

Bossaball participates in Ebda3ati 2008, a youth project exhibition on September 18th-20th 2008 at sponsor’s Mövenpick warehouse in the “Free Trade Zone“.
More info on : www.ebda3ati.com

Zain International Bossaball Tournament

Zain Telecommunication Network International presents Kuwait’s bossaball interland on October 10 in the Marina Crescent Basketball Court in Kuwait.
The tournament features two international teams (Brazil representing South America and Spain representing Europe) and two local teams ( GUST and AUK ).

The event is broadcasted on Al Rai.TV, 4 hours of live bossaball matches.

More info on both events : q8bossaball.com

Bossaball is featured at the Ritem Mladosti Music and Sports Festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia on September 12, 2008.

More info and a listing of all concerts and activities on : Collegium Mondial Travel (in Slovenian)

Bossaball Streetflight

The Slovenian tournament series “Bossaball Streetflight” sets up camp in the center of Ormož, a town near the Croatian border, on  September 13, 2008.

More info : www.bossaball.si

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

More info on :
www.waterfestsingapore.com
www.singaporesports.sg

Media :
Pictures :

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, …

For more info  : www.q8bossaball.com

more info : gent.be/sport and www.uitbureau.be (in Dutch)

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.

More info and a map and a listing of all activities : www.brugge.be/autolozezondag / programma autoloze zondag.pdf (both in Dutch)

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 :
06 : Geef me de 5, Zwembad It Paradyske, Kollum
20 : Buurtsport Tilburg Reeshofpark
22 : Jongerenwerk St. Wiel Elburg, Elburger Sport Club
27 : VV Harambee, centrum Enschede
30 + 31 : National championship Beachvolley
in Scheveningen :  www.beachvolley.nl

September :
06 : Verenigingsmarkt gezonde leefstijl, Wijk bij Duustede

06 + 07 : Dela trophy, Topsporthal Leek, Groningen.
Thousands of tickets have already been reserved to watch the ladies volleyball match considered to be THE warming-up for the World Grand Prix Tournament. The National Dutch Ladies team (de Oranjedames) play against world champion and Olympic favorite Russia in the Dela Trophy. Bossaball is present as the show element of the event.
more info : delatrophy.nl

14 : Ultimate Volley Xperience Eindhoven / Urban sports / www.uvx.nl
14 : Ultimate Volley Xperience Deventer www.uvx.nl

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.

more info :
Bossaball Germany website

Media :

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

Video :

Pictures :

More picture galleries soon on pictures.bossaball.net

Newspapers and magazines articles (in Arabic) :

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