SABADELL/CHARTRES/ROSMALEN – The European billiard federation CEB has announced the teams and groups for the qualifications in the classic games for the Coupe d’Europe. The qualifications are played from 4 until 6 of March in three groups of four teams hosted by Sabadell (Spain), Chartres (France) and Rosmalen (Netherlands).
Twelve teams come to the start in the preliminaries, including six French teams. The title holder is Vitkov Prague from Czech, which will not show up in the stronges line-up in the qualifications.
The five qualifiers meet in Czech in the weekend of 24 April.
The group format:
Sabadell (Spain) :
- Coral Colon (Sp) : Espinasa – Gasso – Mas – Moya – Gonzales – Jose
- Ronchin (Fr) : Florent – Djoubri – Villiers – Dessaint – Reynaert
- Edentic Ecully (Fr) : Vendittelli – Guénet – Castaner – Abouaf – Goutaloy
- Bochum (Ger) : Blondeel – Havlik – Nockemann – Van Etten – Berger – Kimmeskamp
Chartres (France) :
- Chartres (Fr) : Grétillat – Gérimont – Justice – Girard – Pariot – Kassoul
- Eldense (Sp) : Albert – Gomez – Garcia – Tuset – Lacarcel – Gil
- Vitkov Prague (Cz) : A.Baca – Kozak – Ziogas – Hosek
- Andernos (Fr) : Baudoin – Gérassimopoulos – Picart – Arnaud – Connesson – Camilleri
Rosmalen (Netherlands) :
- Etikon (Nl) : de Bruijn – Jong – van der Zalm – Tilleman – Niessen
- Oissel (Fr) : Kahofer – Petit – Legros – Martory
- Soissons (Fr) : Careaux – Soumagne – Remond – Dupont – Boudoux – J.Petit
Merklinde (Ger) : Pöter – Dömer – Egbers – Klein