Table soccer playing figure

An improved playing figure for a table soccer game structure of the type having a plurality of game figures mounted to rotationally and axially movable actuating rods and said playing figures each having a foot portion thereof depending from its associated rod adjacent a playing field portion and adapted to contact a ball thereon, each of said playing figure foot portions including flat side surfaces lying in a generally vertical plane and generally flat front and rear surfaces lying in different planes positioned at an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the figure with the thickness of said foot portion being less at the bottom thereof than at the top, wherein said improvement comprises:

• a control corner positioned along a bottom edge of a foot portion and lying in a plane generally parallel to the longitudinal and transverse axes of said playing figure to increase the degree of control said foot portion has over a playing ball while manipulating said ball.

An improved foot portion for a fussball playing figure of the type having generally planar front and rear surfaces which surfaces are both angled with respect to the longitudinal axis of the figure to form a narrower foot thickness near the toe rather than near the top thereof, side planar side surfaces lying in a plane parallel to the longitudinal axis of the figure and wherein said improvement comprises:

• a control corner comprising a planar strip extending transversely across the lower edge of said angled rear foot surface, said strip lying in a plane more nearly parallel to the longitudinal and transverse axes of said figure than the plane of said angled rear foot surface to form a transversely extending channel along the line of intersection between said planar strip and said generally planar angled rear foot surface and enhance the ball handling dexterity of said improved foot.