Enter Teqball to Sri Lanka
TEQ SRI LANKA
Evolve is forever motion. Confirming ourselves to sport, almost all sports especially the most popular ones have also experienced the motion of change over a period of time and sometimes have branched out into separate sports that have Olympic status. For instance, tennis, table tennis and badminton to a great extent could be put into that slot. The scoring systems are somewhat similar, but only the apparatus are different, but, you get the racquet, court and the net. On the other hand football or soccer is so common and infectious, there is no boy I guess through the bigger margin of the globe who has not dribbled the football and tried to score a goal.
The game of football is so big; it is a billion-dollar business and at times even tilts the blue chips in the worlds. So, if someone tries to pull the table out of the racquet game and put a football there what would they call it.....a Platypus? No, they call it Teqball and mind you; it is gathering momentum in the world and in a big way it and even has set foot on Sri Lanka too.
The way Wikipedia explains it Teqball is a ball sport that resembles table tennis but is played on a curved table with a ball similar to a football, and the players can hit the ball with any part of the body except the hands. Teqball can be played between two players as a singles game, or between three or four players as a doubles game.
The game is represented at an international level by the Fédération Internationale de Teqball (FITEQ). A number of world-class footballers have been attracted by the game, and after being included at the African Beach Games, the sport is now aiming for Olympic inclusion.
History
Teqball was invented in 2014 in Hungary by two football enthusiasts, Gábor Borsányi, a former professional player and Viktor Huszár, a computer scientist.
The responsibility of taking Teqball to Sri Lanka has come upon the former hockey federation secretary Gamini Jayasinghe – the President of Teqball who always has an eye for adventure. He said initially the game was introduced to the Olympic Committee Secretary General Maxwell de Silva by Marius Vizer Jr – General Secretary of Teqball and de Silva, in turn, asked Jayasinghe if he wished to set up the game in Sri Lanka last year. Jayasinghe explained: “By nature I like challenges. So last year I held the initial AGM and got the ball rolling, and we had our first workshop at the Prisons Dept Premises. But, still, the game of Teqball is new to us. At present we have about five clubs involved with the game, but still, we are engaged to makeshift play stations because we are awaiting the Teqball tables to be brought to Sri Lanka by the FITEQ.
“We are also happy to announce that the federation has five tables and five balls to set the ball rolling in the five clubs. Tomorrow, we are expecting the presence of Marius Vizer Jr to officially inaugurate the game of Teqball in Sri Lanka and from there we are hoping to move forward as fast as we could.”
