For this football-based sport, played on a cunningly convex table, invented just five years ago by three enterprising Hungarians, YouTube video clips such as Ronaldinho Insane Skills in Teqball or Justin Bieber is TEQ! are already doing powerful missionary work around the world within the prime target audience of 14 to 25 year-olds.

It's all good as the sport begins to penetrate Asia – its recognition by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) in 2018 really got this size five football game rolling – and Africa – where it has been recognised by the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa.

But as far as Marius Vizer Jr, the head of international relations and an Executive Board member of the International Teqball Federation (FITEQ), is concerned, this fledgling sport with high-flying ambitions will know it is closer to arriving at its intended destination when the faces demonstrating and representing teqball are less widely known.

"Our ambassadors are mostly from the world of football but the aim is to have very soon people coming from the development of teqball, which is happening very quickly," Vizer, who is the designer of the Sports Diplomacy Strategy and responsible for international relations with the global governing bodies of sport, tells insidethegames.

"I am sure there will be a lot of African, Asian and Pan-American players who will be the future of teqball as it comes to be known as a new sport."

In order to reach that happy position, the sport is busy ploughing serious amounts of money into developing the game around the world, offering free equipment in many cases as well as initiating coaching and refereeing courses so that the sport can soon become self-sufficient.

This development programme is enabled by profits from the sales popularity of the tables.

"The OCA looked at our sport in a very positive way and saw the potential of it," Vizer adds. 

"And they saw that even though we were not expecting it so much ourselves, the sport was growing so fast that they recognised the potential and said 'okay, this sport has to be recognised because it's a very clean sport, it's a gender equality sport'. 

"So you can have men and women playing together without having any physical contact, and the OCA is understanding this thing."

Two World Championships have already been organised – the next will take place in Budapest next month. That event will form just a part of the sport's promotional activities between now and the end of the year.

"We will have another 15 competitions in that time," the FITEQ sport director Matthew Curtain explains. 

"Including three at a world level and 12 at what we call our Challenger Cups throughout the various countries in the world. 

"We have another seven courses to run across various continents and we have another two seminars and assemblies to attend as we promote the message of teqball throughout the world."

Next year teqball makes its debut at a major multi-sport event as it forms a medal discipline at the Asian Beach Games.

Asked what question is most commonly asked by prospective federations around the world when he and Vizer arrive, Curtain responds immediately: "How do we get involved?"

"Because our narrative is very clear," he adds. "To invest with partners throughout the sport world. By extension it is to partner with you to provide opportunities to the athletes and the communities of your nation."

Vizer takes up the story at this point.

"The special thing is that we have created a sport which is for everybody, and you can play it anywhere at any time," he says.

"And sticking to this, we have a national development programme which gives at the same time to all countries of the world equipment and funds in order to develop the sport in each country.

"It gives a chance to start for big sports countries but also very small countries which normally are not having the possibility to go to other sports events because of lack of funds."

Curtain now moves forward as part of this particularly effective teqball doubles team.

"We are all cut from the same cloth in one way because we are all coming from the sports industry and our ambitions are aligned to the Olympic Movement," he says. "So it's one thing to be very humble and noble and modest and sell the dream of a new sport but the reality is that the market is also very crowded.

"And so you need to be able to be different, to be bold, be ambitious, and set yourself apart. So it's not just hearts and minds. And the way that we are able to do that is through what Marius outlined – our national development programme.

"Whereby we donate equipment to the countries and our partners, and so that's our investment as well as financial assistance. And so we get them up and running. We are not just trying to sell a dream, there is also that organisational capacity so we can get the critical mass throughout the world."

I ask Vizer what position he would like his sport to be in four years hence, as the world looked ahead to the Paris 2024 Olympics.

"I don't think we want the sport to be placed in any position," he responds. "The sport is taking its own direction and we just have to continue to provide support to our athletes. We don't seek for any recognition at this time from the Olympic world, but it's going into that direction itself."