This post contains media of bossaball activities in the Middle East, during the summer of 2008.

Pictures :

More picture galleries soon on pictures.bossaball.net

Newspapers and magazines articles (in Arabic) :

Video soon.

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

This is a list of bossaball activities in South East Asia during July and August 2008, organized by bossaball Singapore.

July :

12 : Oops! Hook’d! Beach Festival in Café del Mar - Siloso Beach - Sentosa Island - Singapore

Café del Mar is a chain of “sunset bars” originating from Ibiza, known best as a record label for its ambient / lounge / easy listening / dance music compilation album releases, containing tracks intended to induce a “sunset mood” experience.

The festival is organized by Oops! Magazine, a publication by the Language and Communication Department of Singapore Polytechnic, School of Communication, Arts and Social Sciences (CASS).

These are some images of the location :

17 : Sports Camp 2008 (Singapore Management University) - Kallang “Diamond” Field

19 : Junior Olympic Adventure - The Plaza @ National Library
26-27 : Bossaball @ East Coast Parkway  / Playground @ BigSplash
More info

August

2 : Beijing 2008 - Paralympic Games Roadshow -  Ngee Ann City - Civic Plaza
4-8 : Olympic Week @ Yuying Secondary School - School Hall & Bishan Park
10 : National Day Celebration @ Marsiling Community Club - Marsiling Mega Sports Park
28 : Health Promotion Board @ 60 Minutes Challenge - Bishan Park

Nice article about bossaball in Singapore on youth.sg.

Bossaball on Jeddah Summer Festival 2008 - Saudi Arabia

Most bossaball activities in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for the month of July are linked to the Jeddah Summer Festival 2008.

Training sessions :

July 5 - 8 : Bossaball trainers and players from Europe and Brazil conduct local players’ training sessions.

Press Conference : Official Bossaball Launch :

July 7 : Press conference for the official introduction of bossaball in Saudi Arabia for local and national press, radio and television.

Bossaball demonstrations and matches :

July 9 : Grand Opening : The series of daily events starts on July 9 with the attendance of dignitaries from local and governmental political and sports organizations.
July 9 - 15 : Bossaball matches and 2 daily bossaball shows by local and international demo players during the whole period of the festival.

All events take place in Jeddah’s most prestigious sports facilility KFCC (King Fahad Coastal City Jeddah).

This is the local programming info poster with more information about the events, dates, and sponsors.

Bossaball in Al-Shallal Theme Park - Jeddah - Saudi Arabia

Between July 15 and July 21 Bossaball is installed as an attraction in the Al-Shallal Theme Park in the Jeddah Corniche, along the Red Sea.

Al-Shallal is the most popular amusement park of Saudi Arabia, famous for having the largest double looped roller coaster on the Asian continent.

The park belongs to the Fakeeh Tourist Group, part of the Fakieh Group Imperium (”Fakieh Poultry Farms”), who directs all the profits to charity organizations.

Newspapers and magazines articles (in Arabic) :

TV and Radio reports on following channels :

AL ARABIYA TV, ARAB RADIO & TELEVISION NETWORK, MIDDLE EAST BROADCASTING CENTER , ROTANA TV

Organization by our local partner : Fian Trading Inc.

Kuwait’s first official bossaball event “Dare to Fly” on the 1st of July, organized by Bossaball Q8 and GUST (Gulf University for Science and Technology Kuwait), was a success.

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.

High School Sports Fest 2008 Berlin

The University of Potsdam hosts this year’s Hochschulsportfest on the 3rd of July in Berlin.

These competitions, ironically referrered to as “Olympische Hochschulmeisterschaften“, are a series of team ball sports competitions (like soccer, volleyball and this year for the first time bossaball), leisure sports challenges (like frisbee, boccia and badminton,…) and playful traditional skill games with funny names like Eierlaufen, Reifen-Zielwerfen, Würstchenschleuder and Dreibeinlauf.

More info on uni-potsdam.de

School’s Out Festival 2008

School’s Out Festival Berlin is an event with many live bands, dj’s, club-acts and action sports in the center of the city on the 15th of July.

Main location is the “Kesselhaus/ Maschinenhaus” at the “Kulturbrauerei” where bossaball can be played throughout the day.

This is a list of some of the bands and dj’s that play on the event :
- Die Kranken Schwestern
- Max & the Bash
- Dreadlock Chillout Papers
- Vincent
- Sabanova
- Gardens End
- Angelas Park
- Hans der Kleingärtner
- Violent Empire
- Subroad
- Captain Zorx
- Pentaphone
- Panopticon
- Black Sparx
- Poolstar
- Josy Pale
- DJ Killer Loop (Tribute to, Rock, Pop…)
- DJ desTroy (Elektro, Darkwave)
- DJ Luzzo (Nevermind, Rock, Indie)

More info on : www.rockbuero-berlin.de, www.kesselhaus-berlin.de and www.kulturbrauerei-berlin.de

This is a video clip with footage shot at the Bossaball Festival Slovenia on June 25.

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.

More pictures soon.

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.

These are some images of the event.

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.

Bossaball has been invited to the 2008 UEFA European Football Championship, which will take place in Austria and Switzerland, from 7 June to 15 June 2008.

Rendez-vous at the Dutch fanbase site Oranjecamping in Interlaken, Switzerland for demos and matches.

Sponsored by Heineken and the Johan Cruyff foundation.

Fian Trading Inc. , bossaball promotor in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain, confirmed the first official bossaball event in Saudi Arabia.

Bossaball initiations, demonstrations and matches on the coast of the Red Sea at the Summer Festival 2008 in Jeddah, the major urban center of western Saudi Arabia, between the 3th and the 25th of July.

Organized by the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI), the Summer Festival attracts millions of tourists and holidaymakers from within Saudi Arabia and neighboring Arab and Gulf countries.

The romantic coast town Ankaran hosts the first Bossaball Festival in Slovenia on June 25.

for more info : www.bossaball.si

Promo video :

We received some pictures of last weekend’s bossaball event on the VERÃO CAIXA FÃ festival in Lisbon, Portugal.

You can find more pictures of this event under the “puente de 25 avril” on pictures.bossaball.net/portugal-2008.

The following press article about bossaball and the festival is from Time Out Magazine Portugal (in Portugese) :

We posted a new gallery of photos from the 2008 Bossaball Tour in Ecuador on pictures.bossaball.net - Ecuador.

More pictures on pictures.bossaball.net - Ecuador.

And, all the other galleries can be viewed on pictures.bossaball.net.

This is a listing of bossaball events for June 2008 in The Netherlands, organized by our Dutch partner, NeVoBo.

04 : Buurtsport Tilburg - Tilburg

05 : Sport on Tour Goes Centre 2008 - Sportbedrijf Lelystad www.sportbedrijf.nl - Stadhuisplein, Lelystad

08 : Volleybal Club VV Nederhorst den Berg - Nederhorst

12 : Landstede Sport & Bewegen Intra SB 2008 - HC Zwolle

13 : UVX Finals www.uvx.nl - Ahoy, Rotterdam

15 : Sport Experience Utrecht www.sportexperienceutrecht.nl - Tolsteegplantsoen, Utrecht

20 : UVX Emmen www.uvx.nl - Emmen

21 : Jubileum Beachvolley tournament - vv Revoc Rekken

21 : 40 jarig bestaan De Kriekel - Sporthal Dorpstienden Ouddorp

22 : Wijkver. Slangenbeek - Hengelo

23 : Mega Manifestatie Enschede - Diekmanterrein, Enschede

24 : Landelijke Politie Sportdag - Sporthal de Paperclip, Utrecht

24 : Mega Manifestatie Enschede - Diekmanterrein, Enschede

25 : Mega Manifestatie Enschede - Diekmanterrein, Enschede

26 : UVX Rotterdam www.uvx.nl

27 : UVX Eindhoven www.uvx.nl

27 : Gemeente Dordrecht

Exclusive rights to distribute and promote Bossaball in Kuwait have been assigned to NOOR DASMAN TRAD. & CONT. CO.

First presentation and training sessions on the 30th of June + 1st and 2nd of July.

Bossaball Event AS, the promotor of Bossaball in Norway, has announced a series of events during this summer.

More info here soon, and on www.bossaball.no.

Exclusive rights to distribute and promote bossaball in Slovenia have been assigned to B. Dolenc & Sinovi D.O.O.

More info soon : www.bossaball.si

Detarso Communications acquired the exclusive license to distribute and promote bossaball in Chile.

Bossaball Germany presents the Official Opening Show for this year’s activities on the 30th of May in Berlin.

More info on Bossaball Germany.

The event takes place in the Sredzkistrasse in front of the KulturBrauerei in the historical center of Berlin.

More pictures soon.