Federación Argentina de Aficionados al Billar

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Federación Argentina de Aficionados al Billar
Federación Argentina de Aficionados al Billar-Logo 1.png
sport billiards
Founded 1937
Place of foundation Buenos Aires
president Gustavo Torregiani
Board * Rafael Sosa (1st Vice President)
  • Luis Nicola (2nd Vice President)
  • Daniel Moscatelli (General Secretary)
  • Marcelo Bonvillani (Treasurer)
Official languages) Spanish
Homepage faabillar.com.ar

The Federación Argentina de Aficionados al Billar (FAAB) is subordinate or affiliated to the Argentine billiard umbrella organization and the continental association Confederación Panamericana de Billar (CPB).

history

The Argentine Association of Billiards Amateurs was founded in 1937 in the historic billiards academy and salon "Los 36 Billares" (founded in 1894) in Buenos Aires. However, it was a long way to this foundation, which began a few years earlier. One name is particularly associated with the formation of an Argentine association: Don Juan Carlos Basavilbaso, the founder and director of the magazine "Billar", the first issue of which was published on August 1, 1925. Dedicated to billiards since 1918, he became professor and director of the billiards academy. The main theme of the magazine was the need to establish a guideline unit for the game of billiards . Basavilbaso believed that the progress of the activity was impossible without an appropriate direction. Finally, on January 21, 1926, in the auditorium, he reached the first meeting of the most important men in sport. A provisional commission, chaired by Basavilbaso, was appointed to convene the General Assembly, which took place on February 8th of the same year in the auditorium of “La Razón”. This resulted in the first board of the Argentine Billiards Federation, chaired by Juan Carlos Ávila. In spite of all efforts, there was a great deal of inactivity until in 1937 Basavilbaso found the Spanish amateur Raimundo Vives, who had already organized billiards in Barcelona and Madrid and became an indispensable ally for the final consolidation of the Federation. On May 20, 1937, in a meeting in “Lot 36”, the final founding was contractually agreed. At the time of its founding, there was no American umbrella organization, this ( Confederación Panamericana de Billar (CPB)) was only founded in 1954, the FAAB initially directly joined the then world association Union Internationale des Fédérations des Amateurs de Billar (UIFAB) in Paris. As early as 1938, General Secretary Don Pascual Germino asked UIFAB for the right to host a world championship. The world championship took place in Buenos Aires that same year, the winners in front of a home crowd were the brothers Augusto and Jean Francisco Vergez ahead of Alfred Lagache from France. Germino later became President of the FAAB. On September 18, 1941, the FAAB was able to host the first South American Championship in Cadre 45/2 in the "Huracán Club". In 1947, after the death of Don Pascual Germino, Enrique Faragasso took over the presidency.

Association structure

CPB association structure.svg

Web links

Commons : Federación Argentina de Aficionados al Billar  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Comisión Directiva. Federación Argentina de Aficionados al Billar, 2019, archived from the original on November 18, 2019 ; Retrieved November 18, 2019 (Spanish).
  2. Historia. Federación Argentina de Aficionados al Billar (FAAB), 2019, archived from the original on November 18, 2019 ; Retrieved November 18, 2019 (Spanish).
  3. ^ A b Silvia Martínez: La Historia Del Billar En La Argentina. Los Grandes de la Literatura Rioplatense, February 23, 2010, archived from the original on March 6, 2019 ; Retrieved October 29, 2019 (Spanish).