Handball (or "team handball") is a fast-paced game involving two teams of seven players who pass, throw, catch and dribble a small ball with their hands while trying to score goals. The team with the most goals wins the game. A game consists of two 30-minute halves with a 10-minute half-time break.
Even the ancient Greeks...
The sport of handball as it is played today certainly has a chequered history. The very fact that man has always been more adept at using his hands than his feet lends credibility to the claim made by famous sports historians that he started playing handball much earlier than, say, football.
Ancient forms of handball
The games that were precursors of handball can only said to be distantly related to it in terms of their structure and rules of play. Nonetheless, the games of "Urania" played by the Ancient Greeks (and described by Homer in the Odyssey) and "Harpaston" played by the Romans (and described by the Roman doctor Claudius Galenus in 130 to 200 A.D.) as well as in the "Fangballspiel" (or 'catch ball game') featured in the songs of the German lyrical poet Walther von der Vogelweide (1170-1230) all contained certain features that can be described as ancient forms of handball.
Modern handball
Modern handball was first played towards the end of the 19th century. For instance, one such game was played in the Danish town of Nyborg in 1897. The real impulses emanated from Denmark, Germany and Sweden. The founding fathers of field handball were probably German physical education experts who gained recognition for field handball as a separate sport at the turn of the century, based on the games of "Raffball" ('snatch ball') and "Königsbergerball" (Konrad Koch 1846-1911). In Sweden it was G. Wallström who introduced his country to a certain sport named "handball" in 1910.
Streethandball take outdoor team handball serious!
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ABOUT TEAM HANDBALL
Welcome to Streethandball Simple Concept.
We take outdoor team handball serious.
We want prof. handball players to take part of voluntary.
Streethandball homepage start 2007 october with a mission to poke outdoors handball´s the right way.
And to show others. It´s okay to play handball outside.
We will connect:
children to children, young people to young people, teams to teams, clubs to clubs, area to area, country to country,
against outdoor handball.
There´s a extensive asset to outdoor handball its easy to find a space to play and you just need 20 x 40 meters to result international court or smaller court to playing, 2 goals and teams and one handball. Is enough!
And then the game begin!
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5 different ways to play outdoor / streethandball on!
2: Grass
3: Concrete Floor
6: Beach handball
5: Synthetic Sports Floor
4: Streets / Asphalt
1: Earth/Sand
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Asia: Thailand, China, Hong Kong, Israel
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Europe: Austria, Spain, Czech Repulic, Norway, Germany, Italy,
Portugal, Sweden, France, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Poland, Netherlands.
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