Crete: The beautiful Greek Island of Crete will host the most prestigious minifootball tournament in Europe this year, miniEURO 2013.

miniEURO 2013, will be held on the idyllic island between 10-14th October, as countries from across the continent battle it out to try and take the crown won by Romania in Moldova last autumn.

With various nations putting their names forward. In the end it was decided that Crete should host the event, President Burleanu explained that it was felt that Crete was the best venue at this stage: “We have no doubt that all the countries who expressed an interest had unique qualities and all of them would have done a fantastic job, but in the end, the Greek proposal was perhaps the best one all round and the tournament will be a fantastic success.”

Elsewhere, the European Minifootball family expanded still further, with Ireland being officially voted into the European Minifootball Federation. Hungary, Poland and Russia are also soon to be accepted after their presentations to the Executive Committee at the meeting in England.

The President of the EMF Razvan Burleanu was delighted with the way the weekend had gone and admitted he was happy with the way the expansion of the body was progressing: “We were thrilled to welcome delegations from Ireland, Poland and Hungary to our meeting and were extremely impressed with what they had to say. We also received letters from Russia. All three of those countries are close to membership and have a tremendous passion and drive to develop the sport.

“The Irish Minifootball Association have also got some exciting plans to really move forward with making minifootball a success and will have a team in the miniEURO2013 tournament for the first time. We also hope that Poland, provided they can meet the criteria and Hungary can be there too.”