That’s interesting. I would’ve assumed that that technique is so ineffective that it doesn’t need to be prohibited.
May be because it’s so very annoying?
Messi lost yesterday? Got up with the left foot first? Feeling provocative today? Come on, Frodo, my dear boy, leave the naming of things to those who invented the game. It’s their prerogative (which, incidentaly, is written with a lacking “r” in English). Here, learn something:
And if you do the molinete, that is, the rotating tactic you described, the next round is on you.
It may have been invented in Spain (“may”, there are patents for similar games in England that predate the Spanish one, though it’s fair to say that the current version was invented in Spain) but that doesn’t give you the right to inflict names like “Futbolín” or even worse “Futbolito” on the poor game!, have some mercy!.
But the “molinete” was the only tactic I knew!
OK, so if we play against each other I will get horribly drunk, and then you will win. Sounds fair.
ETA: The second, less usual name is actually not futbolito, but futbito. Wikipedia got that one wrong or it is a regional thing.
In German, the name of the game is uncontroversial, it’s “Kickern”. (or “Tischfußball”, but that’s the official, boring name and just means “table football”)
In the US, “table football” would usually refer to a game played usually by schoolkids at the lunch table, with a folded bit of paper.
Is the table-top football game Subbuteo known outside of the UK?* Because that’s got the coolest name.
Derivation: The originally proposed name for the game was “The Hobby”, but that was refused a trademark. So the inventor named it after the Eurasian hobby (the bird of prey, Falco Subbuteo).
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*- - the wiki page kinda suggests it is, but you have to wonder if the last World Championship was held in Tunbridge Wells. Subbuteo - Wikipedia
I saw this recently, but had forgotten, but Jim Starlin’s “Thanos” was originally modeled after Jack Kirby’s “Metron.” However, his editor told him to change him to look more like Darkseid.
I knew of it, but never saw it played, it will never be as popular as Foosball probably, because it’s more complex to setup (all those small pieces, instead of just the big Foosball table)
Hey, I didn’t say it was good. 
(I have played it as a child. It’s not much fun. But I like the name.)
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I would like something like it but that it required no athletic ability whatsoever, say each mini has stats and when 2 minis met you roll for dribbling or something and proceed from there.
Tipp-Kick has never made it beyond Germany’s borders:
Tipp-Kick is a miniature soccer simulation table game for two people: The playing field consists of a playing surface, two goals, two goalkeepers and two field players who can be positioned as desired (exception: they may not be placed in the penalty area) as well as a half two-colored, usually black and white, more rarely yellow and red dodecagonal and thus 14-sided “ball”. The basic version of the game is played with a roll-up felt playing surface on a scale of 1:100 to a real soccer pitch. In contrast to table soccer with playing figures on fixed rods, the playing figures in Tipp-Kick are moved around the pitch: by tapping the button on the playing figure’s head, the foot moves and kicks the dodecagonal “ball”.
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That brought back a memory. In the late 80s there was a bar in the Pacific Beach neighborhood of San Diego called The Second Wind. I’d go there on Sundays for Grateful Dead night. They had a few games including Foosball and it was the usual deal where the winning team got to play on and there was a list for who went next which could take an hour on a busy night.
It was a bar usually full of locals so a new person would stick out. This one couple showed up arrogantly expecting to stay on all night. They had special gloves and these custom neoprene tubes that they rolled over the handles. They were humbled by a couple of the regulars which may have been a lot of luck but it was hilarious. They were a running joke in the place for months.
I started playing in college and got pretty good, at least among the bar crowd that I played with. My partner and I were roommates for a few years, and we bought a Tornado table that we had in our apartment to practice on. We played in one professional tournament, and were completely demolished. (We did use gloves; they help a lot when your hand gets sweaty. And lower level players did sometimes get intimidated when they’d see us putting on our gloves.)
For what it’s worth, here in Luxembourg, foosball is called “Kicker” (pronounced, roughly, “keeka”). This according to my kids, who play it at school.
Today’s random interesting fact: Kraft sells its blue box mac and cheese at a rate of a million per day.
Even as a little kid I despised that crap. I don’t understand how any living being could swallow it after putting it in their mouths.
Another interesting fact is that Canadians eat 55% more Kraft mac-and-cheese than Americans, per capita.
Kraft was a sponsor of the radio show The Great Gildersleeve, so it was interesting to hear old commercials for Kraft products. I thought it was kind of funny that Parkay margarine was advertised as a “great energy food” – I guess being high in calories was a selling point, not a drawback!