Recent success of Rochefort’s Star, Valery Dejardin, are really proving that this man is really one of the best players in the world right now.
His victory in Temploux did nothing but add more titles to this man’s name. Dejardin had a tough day, eliminating some top opposition to reach take the title (and 150 world ranking points) home with him. He defeated many big names like World Champion Efrem Intra, Spanish Champion Vincenc Prats Salat as well as the Italo-Belgian Mastermind Antonion Mettivieri, before eventually seeing off Dutch Protagonist, Maikel De Haas, in the final of a high-quality event.
The only maltese representative at this event, Massimo Cremona, performed very well to reach the Quarter-Finals, where he lost out to Mettivieri. Cremona, who ended top of a hard group which included Portugese Tiago Sousa and Dutch National Robbert Thoen, came into his Last 32 Match as heavy favourite and managed to put 8 goals past Michael Dupret of Magic Team Tournai. He then had an encounter with one of Greece’s top players, Chris Aggelinas, who he also saw off with a convincing 2-0 result to qualify for the Quarter Finals.
The U19 event was won by Templeuve’s Kevin Drohsler who defeated Stembert’s Michael Denooz in the Final. The semi-finalist include Ralf Gregoire of SC Temploux and another Stembert player, Jerome Herbecq.
The U15 event was won by another Templeuve player, Erwin Delaunoy who beat Rochefort’s Julien Dardenne on shots after a stalemate at full time. The U12 was won by Parisian Arnaud Le Teno who defeated Brussels’ Dany Timmerman in what was a competitive and rather large U12 competition.
The French made their presence felt in the Ladies category, when 5 out of 8 quarter finalists were French, showing once again that they are the strongest nation out there in the Ladies category. The event was won by Boissy St-Leger’s Francoise Guyot who is currently seen as one of the top women in Table Football.
The Veterans, which is getting harder with each year that goes by, was won by Belgium’s top Veteran, Steve Gregoire, who defeated two-time Veteran World Champion, Thierry Vivron from France, in the final. The most notable result of the day for Gregoire seemed to be his narrow elimination of Dutchman, Henk Landzaat in the Quarter Finals. Although it is Landzaat’s first season as a Veteran, he has already achieved alot so far.
The team event was won by TSC Stella Artois Milano who beat Belgium’s top team, SC Charleroi, in the final. Home team, SC Temploux showed their stuff in reaching the Semi-Finals, and proved that they are still a very strong team. The other semi-finalists were DEVILS Austria who were narrowly eliminated to Milano.
Full Results: http://www.sfu.ca/~haasw/subbuteo/files/200607/IOTemploux.pdf
