Patrick Sampey Legends of the Mosconi Cup 1924-2021

Legends Of The Mosconi Cup ~1994-2021~

Friday, December 17th, 2021 -- The Mosconi Cup is all but over, except the crying for team USA this year, however, we at SPM would like to review the Cup from the beginning, 1994.

Before we delve into the diversity of players that have graced the grand stage on the Mosconi Cup, let’s highlight a few of the most prolific pool addicts, professional billiards cue artists, these great ‘Legends Of The Fall’ we all love to watch -- billiards aficionados such as myself. For team Europe, the “Kaiser,” Ralf Souquet has appeared a record 17 times, tied with Johnny Archer for team USA, with 17 appearances himself. Souquet represents Germany (16 different European countries have been represented to face off against USA since the inception of the Mosconi Cup.)

After Souquet and Archer as the two most picked players for team Europe and USA respectively -- then, we have Mika Immonen, representing Finland, at 15

Legends Of The Mosconi Cup

~1994-2021~ By Patrick Sampey

appearances. Also, Neils Feijen of the Netherlands stands at 13 Cups played, the third highest number played, representing Europe. Then, the fourth most selected player for Europe is snooker star Steve Davis at 11 Cups played.

As for the top four player appearances for team USA, with Archer at the top (17), we then have Shane Van Boening (SVB) with 15 -- after that, there’s Earl Strickland at 14 -- then we have the fourth slot filled

by Corey Deuel at 11.

Meanwhile, Earl Strickland stands as the most winning Mosconi Cup American player percentage wise, for eight or more Cup appearances. He has 9 wins for 14 appearances, a 64.3 percentage win record against some of the toughest players Europe has ever assembled. Then, we have Archer tied with Strickland at 9 wins himself, but with 17 appearances, and a 52.9 percent win ratio, a decent run in his own right.