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Paralympic sports football. This sport is open to para athletes with a visual impairment. It is played between two teams with four players who are blind, as well as one sighted or visually impaired. Follow on radio 5 live and on the bbc sport website find.
Blind football has been a paralympic sport since the athens 2004 paralympic games. The two newest sports to be given paralympic status are badminton and taekwondo, which will. Brazil have won gold at every.
Paralympic football is an adaptation of the sport for athletes with physical or mental disabilities. The paralympic sports comprise all the sports contested in the summer and winter paralympic games. There are currently 28 paralympic sports sanctioned by the ipc:
You might have seen in the recent. Played by blind and partially sighted athletes. The rules set by the international federation of association football are modified to suit the.
Governed by the international blind sports federation (ibsa), blind football featured at the paralympics for the first time at athens 2004. See more of these plus a discussion about. Paralympic games on the bbc venue:
The sport has been governed by the international blind sports federation (ibsa) since 1996 and it is played with modified fifa rules. There are five players in each team including the goal keeper. Football (soccer) is the world’s most popular sport!