Seven a side indoors, throw the ball into a goal defended by a keeper, and score around thirty times a game. Eight tools take you from confused to the sharpest eye in the room.
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Seven a side indoors, throw the ball into a goal defended by a keeper, and score around thirty times a game. Continuous, physical, and one of Europe's biggest spectator sports despite being almost unknown elsewhere.
Enormous in Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Croatia, Hungary and Egypt, with growing strength in Japan, Brazil, Qatar and across North Africa.
Widely played in European school systems from about eight. Careers typically run to the mid-thirties.
Denmark and France in the men's game; Norway, France and Denmark in the women's.
Handball is played in South African schools and universities and has a national federation, though it remains a minority sport here.
University and school leagues are the entry point in SA.
A jump shot · A wing shot · The pivot's work · A goalkeeper save · A fast-break finish
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