For the Love Of Sports
Spotlight on Field hockey.
Field Hockey is a outdoor game played in teams with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalkeeper. Teams must move a small hard hockey ball around a pitch by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting circle and then into the goal. The match is won by the team that scores the most goals. Matches are played on grass, watered turf, artificial turf, or indoor boarded surface. The sport is called field hockey in order to distinguish it from ice hockey. Hockey is believed to date from the earliest civilizations. The Arabs, Greeks, Persians, and Romans each had their own versions, and traces of a stick game played by the Aztec Indians of South America have been found. The modern game was developed at public schools in 19th-century England and it is now played globally. The governing body is the International Hockey Federation (FIH), called the Fédération Internationale de Hockey in French. Men and women are represented internationally in competitions including the Olympic Games, World Cup, FIH Pro League, Junior World Cup and in past also World League, Champions Trophy. Many countries run extensive junior, senior, and masters club competitions. The FIH is also responsible for organizing the Hockey Rules Board and developing the sport's rules.
Benefits of playing field hockey
Playing hockey helps develop essential social skills like teamwork, communication and individual persistence, but also proves an enjoyable activity that builds up speed, hand-eye coordination and cardiovascular performance. Hockey is played mainly in clubs, both by women and men. Many people grow up with hockey at school and it can offer a lifetime of both social and sporting opportunities for players, administrators and officials alike.
How to get involved in playing field hockey
There are plenty of clubs out there able to accommodate newcomers to the sport of hockey and many of these can be found by surfing the internet or contacting the governing bodies for the area in which you live. Many of these clubs operate smaller versions of hockey such as mini-hockey, for beginners, or indoor hockey to build up player's skills and fitness. Then, once you have mastered the basics you can move onto the full scale version of the game by joining a fully-fledged hockey team.
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