Wednesday, March 26, 2008

About Team Handball

What Is Team Handball? The sport has been compared to basketball, hockey, soccer, water polo and rugby and sometimes confused with the game of handball that features two players, four walls and one rubber ball. There are no walls in team handball; the object is to throw a ball past a goalkeeper into a net for a goal -- worth one point -- using good teamwork and passing. Team handball is fast-paced and high-scoring with lots of contact.
"It's exactly like water polo, except we are on a court and not in the water," says Derek Brown, a Washington native and member of the U.S. men's team. "You have your basketball capabilities as well as some hockey, some rugby, some soccer. Mix that all together and you have team handball."

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