Although table football, or "foosball" as it is known in our country, was invented by a Spaniard named Alejandro Finisterre in 1937, there is a link to Germany. The term "foosball" is an American morph of "fussball," the German word for the sport. You can play the game all over this fair country during the tournament. I've seen foosball tables not just in bars and restaurants, but Munich platzes, adjacent to the Nazi stone tribune in Nuremberg and high above Hamburg at the "Bunker," a media center in St. Pauli.