The strange look of football is wildly popular abroad: you can play with your hands

And here you can’t earn money. The world has many varieties of playing with the ball. The most popular is classic football 11×11. But there is a country in which its national football attracts more attention than ordinary. And this is not the United States, as you might think. There is such a sport as Gell football. It is popular only in Ireland, but there they literally adore it. The rules of Gaelian football are a symbiosis of ordinary football and rugby with an admixture of handball and volleyball. What is it at all?Getty Images

Invented as an original Irish look

Games with the ball have been known on the island of Ireland since the 14th century. Under different names, they developed until the 1880s. Then the rugby penetrated into Ireland, and the future of local football became foggy. To preserve traditions, the Gel athletic association was created. Under its wing, the original Irish sports – Hurling (a type of hockey hockey), Camogies (Herling for Women), Raunders (a variety of baseball) and, in fact, Gael football. For each of them, official rules were written, so that it became possible to hold full -fledged tournaments. The first all-Russian championship was held in 1887. Popularly, Gaelian football was gaining popularity and was even an indicative sport at the 1904 Olympics in the American St. Louis. Now it is developing in many countries, but exclusively by the forces of the Irish diaspora.Getty Images

There is a rugby gate and a black card

But how to play Gael's football? What is he like? If it is very brief, then Gael football is football with rugby elements. You can play with your hands, the gates are taken from the rugby (with a bar in the middle), and 15 people play in one team. But there are nuances. In the first, the balls of the Gauls are not oval, but the classic round-only a little less than in ordinary football. It can be kicked or thrown with one hand, and here we are already observing the signs of handball or volleyball. Secondly, Gaelic football prohibits rude techniques that Rugby is famous for. Thirdly, the Irish play with the goalkeeper-there is no such role in Rugby. Fourth, Gauls can give a pass forward with their hands, which is considered a violation in their oval brother. There is also one interesting nuance that is difficult to imagine in other sports. If the teams do not gain 15 people per match, the judge has every right to reduce the number of players to 13, excluding one defender and one striker. But in this format you can play only the first time – after a break, all 15 players should enter the field. By the way, about the field. It somewhat resembles rugby, but a little wider. The gate has a grid stretched between the crossbar and the lower part of the rods. For the hit of the ball above the crossbar, one point is awarded, three in the net. At a distance of 13, 20 and 45 meters from the gate, lines are drawn.VideoThe duration of one match is 60 minutes, or two half of half an hour. In this timing, almost all competitions are held, except for the intergraphs, there is a 2×35 format there. In children and teams of lower echelons, time can change the lesser direction. Also, Gaul football is interesting in that it uses warning cards of three colors. Yellow and red are identical to ordinary football, but there is also black. The player who received it must be replaced. Temporary removal for 10 minutes is also practiced – this rule exists, for example, in hockey with a ball.

There is even in Russia

Gell football is extremely popular in Ireland. The final of the All -Russian Championship stably collects 80 thousand spectators in the stands. In the days of the PABA matches, fans who support their own – of course, with the Irish element. A very important feature of Gell football is the lack of material rewards. Extremely fans play it, and there are no multimillion -dollar contracts in it. Because of this, there are no large-scale international tournaments-it is extremely difficult to organize them without financial stimulation. The coolest event in Gel football is the All -Russian Championship. Interesting, but the team in the Irish variety is even in Russia! In 2015, the Moskow Shemox club appeared in Moscow, which was created by immigrants from Ireland and Great Britain. He conducts his training at the Lokomotiv stadium or in Krylatsky, but for lack of rivals, he is forced to play either with rugbyists or with teams from Australian football – in fact, a closest relative.Moscowshamrocks.comgel football and, in general, sports from the Gel athletical association are the only thing that still unites Ireland. Since 1921, two states have existed on the island (Ireland and Great Britain represented by Northern Ireland). Despite the disagreements, all Irish football plays together in Gael's football. Here it is, the unifying power of sports!