Dear Colleguaes!

I wrote an open letter to the captains concerning the vote about the next WC. It is an important issue, so I would like to share with You all my thoughts. Thanks for Your attention!

Károly Avar

Hungary

Dear friends,

After the first few votes I decided that I would write down some of my thoughts and questions only at the end, because even then it was clear that the ’big’ majority would choose…

I would take the right to give myself an answer to this question. It’s not my intention to impose my opinion to anyone, rather my intention is bona - fide.

As a representative of…

Dear all,

I bring you the results of captains´meeting in Budva (Sept. 2011)

16 nations were present: Canada, Italy, Germany, Austria, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Rep., Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Macedonia.

The agenda was approved as follows:

-         Election of the Presidont for the period 2011-2015

-         Election of the Board

-         New Statutes

-         WC…

La notizia mi ha molto colpito. Herbert ed io siamo stati per lunghissimi anni capitani dei rispettivi teams. Amici fuori dl campo ma avversari senza compromessi in campo. Herbert ha scritto una pagina bellissima della vita della nostra Associazione come giocatore, come membro del Board e come organizzatore. Ha dato vita ad alcuni dei più riusciti appuntamenti annuali dell' Aitj da quello di Badgastein, a quello di Disentis, a quello memorabile di Bonn: Grazie Herbert. Adalberto Minazzi

This was long ago...16 years...but there are moments one doesn´t forget. In 1996 we organized our first WC in the Slovak spa Piestany. During the first days I thought  things went quite well, tournament progressed according to plan, weather if not sunny, at least fair for playing, there was a trip somewhere...until the captains´ meeting the thrid day. There, Herbert took the fllor and he was merciless.

„You showed us this and this, OK.  Do you expect people here will write something…

Herbert was a great inspiration to me, struggling as I have been for years to get together a British journalists' team. How he managed to recruit such a high quality, large German team for so long is beyond me. Well done to him and all the German players. His death will be a huge loss to us all. 

Herbert and I disagreed in Prague about the website. I was much keener than he was for a new means of communication to go ahead. But he treated all disagreements courteously, like the…

Today I have received the sad news that our German Team-C aptain Herbert Bögel has passed away last Friday, 7th of October. Herbert was 84 years old.

RIP Herbert! And many thanks for your friendship and your wonderful,…

Bojan Budja is the old and new President of the AITJ. Budja won on Wednesday evening against Ladislav Kubis. The new Board will have only seven members. On Sunday the extraordinary General assembly (new statutes and legal association) could not be held as two-third of the registred countries were not present in Budva Montenegro.