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Newsletter
April 2013
The EPBF General Assembly
2013...
...was held in Portoroz, Slovenia, during the
Dynamic Billiards European Championships. Many
EPBF member nations have sent their delegates to
this biannual meeting. Important decisions which
will point the way for the EPBF in the future have
been taken. The delegates present came up with a
lot of questions which were answered by the Board
to the satisfaction of all members. After the reports
of the individual Board members, the statutes have
been changed according to the Board's proposal. As a highlight of the meeting, four new
full members were accepted into the pool family of Europe: Cyprus Pocket Billiard
Federation (CYPURS), Koninklijke Nederlands Biljartbond (THE NETHERLANDS), Real
Federacion Espanola de Bilard (SPAIN) and Federacao Portuguesa der Bilhar
(PORTUGAL). The EPBF President Gre Leenders welcomed them all in. After discussing
the future activities and budgets, the elections were taking place. For the Board, all
members were re-elected even though there were candidates running against some of
them. But Frans van den Bergh (Treasurer), Anamaria Matesic (Sports Director), Sandra
Hanf (Youth Sports Director) and David Morris (Board Member) all received the trust of the
General Assembly. Joining the Board as a new assessor is Kurt Roos from Sweden. After
that, the Court of Arbitration and the auditors have been elected, and the meeting ended
after 5 hours of fruitful and positive discussions. The EPBF is now ready to continue the
good work from the recent years with full strength.
The Player of the Year 2012...
...is Nick van den Berg from The Netherlands. His election was
presented before the final award ceremony of the Team competition.
Van den Berg was very surprised and happy to receive this honour
by fans, federations and officials. Details about the voting procedure
can be viewed at www.playeroftheyear.eu
EPBF Newsletter April 2013, Page 1 of 2
The European Pocket Billiard Federation, Clercstr. 2, 6441 CT Brunssum, The Netherlands
Press Office: [email protected]
WPA World 10-Ball Championships
postponed...
...unfortunately, EPBF received the news that the WPA has
cancelled the World 10-Ball Championships which were scheduled
for June 8 -15, 2013 in Oslo, Norway. This is the second World
Championships that was postponed in 2013 so far. The WPA
President stated: "I did speak with the organiser today but as we
have all been dreading, he has not lodged any guarantee with us to
secure the event. He has informed me that it is not possible to get
the event staged in Norway due to a number of reasons, but none
less than the lack of local interest of having the event played there
and a restriction of certain type of sponsors who are interested, but
not permitted to advertise by Norwegian law." Hopefully, the other World events will take
place as advertised.
EPBF Newsletter April 2013, Page 2 of 2