The Women’s Fistball World Championship in Rapperswil-Jona, scheduled for mid-July 2021, will be cancelled. Due to the present provisions in connection with the corona pandemic, the well-advanced preparatory work will be discontinued. Hope was palpable until recently – also the conviction. Despite all the adversities in connection with the Corona crisis, the employees of the…

The Chilean fistball association Federación Chilena de Faustball published the selection for the fistball world championship on their Facebook account on May 4th. The nominees: Offence: Lorenza Valenzuela, Club Deportivo Manquehue Elvira Hoffmann, Club Deportivo Manquehue Valeska Kuschel, Club Deportivo Manquehue Passing: Francisca Gray, Club Deportivo Manquehue Florencia Schwaner, Club Deportivo Manquehue Defence: María Paz…

Article originally published from Obersee Nachrichten. Mr. Grögli, you put a lot of commitment and passion into organizing the World Championships. Have you been an active fistball player yourself? Yes, for the last twelve years of my active career, which I ended in 2008, I played in the National League A. Among other things, we became…

Article originally published from Deutsche Faustball Liga DFBL. Unusual times require a lot of creativity: The 14 women’s A-team is currently preparing intensively for the planned fistball world championship in Jona (Switzerland) in mid-July. But due to the current situation, national coach Silke Eber had to get creative for the coming weekend – and break…

Article originally published from Swiss Faustball and CFFN. A little more than three months before the Women’s World Championship in Jona, Roman Mattle and Roger Willen from the CFFN interviewed Swiss women’s national coach Toni Lässer. Toni, how are you and what do you do when you are not thinking about fistball? I am fine…

The Women’s Fistball World Championship 2021 starts in Jona in exactly 100 days. There is still a lot of uncertainty: audience yes or no, if so, how many? Can all teams come? Is a negative corona test enough or is there also a need for quarantine for the players and officials? The organizing committee is…

In just a little more than 5 months the IFA 2021 Fistball World Championship takes place in Jona, Switzerland. IFA Secretary General Christoph Oberlehner visited the venue together with Fritz Valant and Thomas Szabo from the TV production company to discuss with the local Organizing team from TSV Jona many different topics. One of the…

For the IFA 2021 Women’s World Championship from July 13th to 17th 2021 in Jona a record number of countries could be reached. So far 14 national associations have announced their intention to attend the World Championship with the International Fistball Association. These are Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Austria, Portugal,…

Shortly after TSV Jona Faustball finally took over the IFA 2021 Fistball Women’s World Championship in, further planning began. The most important thing for holding an event the size of a World Cup are volunteers.  There is a lot of hope that the event can be held in an atmospheric setting with spectators and that…

The International Fistball Association (IFA) awarded the next Fistball highlight event in their last Board of Directors’ meeting: The 2021 Women’s World Championship takes place in Switzerland. The women’s highlight event will be carried out in Rapperswil-Jona from 13 to 17 July 2021. As Chile had to withdraw from hosting the IFA Women’s World Championship…