"Guten Tag" from good old Germany
 

What´s up? :cool:
My name is Michael Cook "Mike" and I am living in Berlin/Germany.
I am a big Footballfan and know miniature electric football from way back playing it in my childhood.
I didn´t expect that there were that much enthusiasts out there being organized like that. :eek:
A couple of friends and me were thinking about having a hobby on the side to prevent losing the child in us.
What else could it be if it hasn´t anything to do with football?!
I remember telling them guys about a game I played with my dad and from that point on it was clear.....we have to find it....... hold up....I was send out to do what I can to hook everybody up with equipment, infos, etc. :D
Ebay aint really a platform for Germany when it comes to shipping.
Only spare users sending worldwide so it is kind of difficult to provide anything of electric football.
American Football has a big community since the early 1980 but no one really thought about to merchandise supporting goods.
You won´t find anything but equipment to play the sport yourself, here and there shirts and a few caps and that´s it!
Okay no wonder the NFL World Leauge had to quit mgngcrz
Europe ain´t ready for the greatest sport yet.
Finaly I contacted your forum and Lynn Schmidt gave me the opportunity to use this plattform here.
I am thankful for any help to establish this great game here in Germany.
I hope that I dind´t forgot anything important?!
If so, please let me know and feel free to ask any questions about me and whatever seems to be known.
Happy Gaming
Mike

Welcome Mike!!!!!



Geno H

Wow EF is starting to expand in Europe!

you should get in touch with the French Guy! he is an excellent painter and has some experience building a board, which might be an answer to your shipping troubles.

Welcome to the hobby!

Welcome !

WELCOME to the greatest hobby in the WORLD! Are you from the states? If so, where?

I have a passport
 

Welcome to the best fellowship of coaches anywhere.

Anything you want to know about this hobby is at your fingertips. Anything you need to play, is going to be way beyond your wildest expectations. So enjoy.

Rock Solid
Toms River, NJ

Danke for signing on to the forum. Hopefully we can help you get the things you need to get a league rolling in Germany.

WELCOME
 

Welcome mike, great to have you. Here you will find everything you need to bring the greatness of the game back into your life. be sure to explore all the various styles to see which of them you like. I one prefer the MPFL style, it is as close to real football to date. Maybe you will like a variety of styles so take your time when learning them. You have great people here that will be more than willing to help you in any capacity. Enjoy and welcome again


mantaraydre

guten tag mike
 

i spent 4 yrs. in germany while i was in the service,it was pretty nice,you'll find all the help you'll need on this site , any questions you run into ,members on here can answer anything, we even have great members in canada and france that are more than willing to lend expert advice ,have a great e.f. day.thmbsp$ and welcome

Welcome to the community
 

..looks like this forum is going to be international (Canada, France, Germany, maybe a couple in the UK)


what a great news for this marvellous hobby!


Benster from way-up north

Hi my german neighbor ! thmbsp$

I wrote two little articles for european beginners here :

http://miniaturefootball.org/2009/11...ame-in-europa/

http://miniaturefootball.org/2009/10/31/mfca-europa/

If you need anything, feel free to ask thmbsp$

Welcome Mike
 

Always good to have another coach on board and to see the game expanding to other parts of the world. As has already been stated - this is the place for all your needs regarding EF - and you will see that it has advanced FAR since our younger days for sure!

Thanks for your fast reply.
I am looking foreward to catch up quick with EF as it is today.
Thanks also for the links and to answer more questions of the above I will come direct and short.
My mom is a german and my dad is from Glade Hill/ VA.
Also had my 4 years experience with the service.
Where I am from ? Good question.....
My family lives in the area of Franklyn County/Virginia, Roanoke, Greensboro/High Point in North Carolina and even Bluefield in West Virginia (my dad went to college over there).
When I am comming back to the US it will be either VA or NC. Most of my friends moved to North Click and I know my way arround.
I do play football (see avatar) in a 4. Divison team over here running up to Divison 3.
Played also in the highest class in the past, became german champion and still can if I am willing to train every day......NOT! My bones hurt enough right now. I leave this up for the young blood.
Everybody is trying to talk me into coaching but for right now I can´t live without hurting the fool that is trying to carry the ball my way. drl$$
Took me also 27 years of playing ball until I got ejected the first time in my career for unnecessary roughness.
Back to the game.
I will build me a field myself and hopefully find someone here that can hook me up with bases, figures, etc.
I love these high detailed figures I have seen here.
And that the french guy knows how to paint is nothing new to me.
I have seen miniatures painted by "french guys" for tabletop games that had 28 layers of color and looked so realistic. That´s in their blood I guess?! ;)
Happy Gaming
Mike


Edit: My favorite teams are Redskins, Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech

Thats whats up
 

Welcome to the big show, its all good! thmbsp$

WELCOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ALWAYS GOOD TO HAVE NEW GUYS ON SHOWING ENTHUSIASM.

When you get your board built, send me your address through the PM.

I can hook you up with some teams and bases to get ya started.

AGAIN,

WELCOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WELCOME
 

Welcome hope you enjoy your stay with EF and look forward to hearing more

You're the big guy on the avatar photo ? :eek:

I guess I did well not to play american football, if all the other guys are the same size as you :rtfl: thmbsp$

The german football level is very high for europe. I hope we'll see an new big european championship one day. It's a shame since events like Superbowl made big scores on TV (about 250000 people between midnight and 4am on sunday, on a small tnt -like cable channel size- channel).

I believe that year Germany lost against Japan on world championship, am I right ?

By the way, did you see how the japanese play ? Quite impressive, really fast. The cool thing with japanese, is that when they try to learn something, they go as deep as they can and do their best. Same thing in soccer, baseball, etc...



Well....since I'm an immigrant son (I'm the 1st generation born ni france on my father side, Portugal, and 2nd generation born in france on my mother side, Poland/Ukraine), I'm not so sure :D Citizen of the world I am first thmbsp$

I am not that big:nhnh:
I´m 5´11 and weight about 245 lbs. as a MLB. I am one of the shortest on the team and even in the leauge but with 4.5 to 4.6 sec on the 40, knowledge and the hardest forehead in germany it fits quiet perfect.
During this years season preparation I went up to 275 lbs. and lost alot of pounds quick to prevent to be stuck into the Defense Line. Okay, when it´s needed I´m also playing End sometimes.
I started out in my career playing ball as a Flanker. I was fast, 165 to 185 lbs, good hands and were hitting hard. After breaking to much tackles and carrying the ball well, my dad and coach, made me playing FB gaining up to 205 lbs (age 17). I hated it. All the fame for someone else. I blocked my ****** of and made it possible to run every Defense down. It had to change!
In my first senior year I decided to play Free Safety and I did. My coach these days (William McKinley Brooks III/Billy Brooks) couldn´t say no to a guy running a stable 4.4 on the 40, good hands and willing to tackle everything near or holding the ball. Even a Ref if there was no whistle rfr$ or being to close to action. :rtfl:
After all those years working out I became bigger and found myself playing OLB (Will) and present MLB and loving it.

About the IFAF World Cup I don´t know but the Japanese are the top contender.
German Football standard is very high. I would say any 1. Division Team is able to face a US top College Team.
This season one of our opponents had two 2. Divison college players (RB´s) from Kentucky on their team and they had to find out the hard way that we know the game.
I am 41 now and hope to play for a few more years.

Coming back to painting my french neighbor I have seen the best painted miniatures only coming out of France. They are the inofficial World Champions in paintingfrstplc.
For example check out competitions of Games Workshop and also Confrontation by Rackham (Made in France).
A friend over here for example plays Subbuteo and ist selling teams worldwide. Bodo Reckzeh is his name and his paintjobs are outstanding.
He is well known in the scene.
I will post a link to his page if anyone is interested?!
I played Subbuteo myself and still hold my miniatures from the early 80´s and I will sell´em pretty soon.

Happy Gaming
Mike

Skype
 

If you have skype, I can get you into the convention next weekend. No passport needed. :-)

Rock Solid

I do have skype and icq and I just added it to my profil.
By the way......partytime, I am a MFCA member from now on. thmbsp$
Glad to be here with all you great people.
Can´t let the french guy be the only one over here :D
Hope to see ya´ll next year in person ´cause I can´t make it this year comming home for vacation.
I am working on it.

Yes, a lot of great miniature painters are from France, it's true. You can find a great painting book here : "Le grand livre de la peinture sur figurine", written by the best painters here. I don't know if the book has been translated in english or german :confused:

Anyway, sadly I'm not one of them :D

On the athletic side of the chat, when I read what you wrote, I stills believe I was right to not continue sport, especially contact ones :D

Welcome aboard
 

Nice to know the MFCA is going international!!!!!!!!!!


I might get trumped if our overseas coaches start coming to the states!
:rtfl: ppcrn thmbsp$ drl$$ frstplc lffng$ ppls$


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