The Foosball Mafias Lifts FM Cup

The Foosball Mafias emerged champions of Foosball Mania 2008 winning the closely-contested final against V Rock! 5-1, 5-4. Rajesh Kunder scored eight goals to seal his team’s victory and to end as this season’s top scorer.

The final was quite simply one of the well-played and entertaining matches that this season saw. Prior to the match there were no clear favorites as both the teams walked in from the semis with the help of Goal Differences. TFMs came into the firing mode faster than the V Rocks. They came close to blank V Rocks in the first game but a beautiful pull shot from Shilpa’s striker denied TFMs that. With out accepting any further damage TFMs bagged the game 5-1 (Sapna 2, Kunder 3). The star of the first game was Sapna who guarded TFMs home from the frequently patrolling V Rock shots.

The second match saw V Rocks desperately trying a come back. Sheethal fired some long-range shots from the V Rock goal front, she succeeded four times to give the game a nail-biting end. If it was Sapna in the first game then it was Kunder who stole the show this time. Kunder scored all the five goals to stamp the game and Match for TFMs (5-4).