A combination of football and basketball, the game involves propelling a round
ball with the hands and scoring a goal by throwing the ball over a goal line between two
posts and a crossbar like in hockey or football, but much smaller in dimension.
Devised as an indoor sport to be played on a marked court, the origins of the game are
attributed to Denmark around 1895. It developed in the beginning of the 20th Century and
was introduced in the 1936 Berlin Olympics as an outdoor 11?a?side game. It was dropped
and re-introduced in the 1972 Munich Olympics as an indoor sport with seven-a-side and
five substitutes.
It was introduced in the Asian Games as an event only for men in the 1982 Delhi Asiad. In
India it is played by men and women more as an outdoor sport. |