FLOORBALL

Materials: sticks elastic

Space: Indoor
and light, white round ball
of plastic.
N of participants: 6 per
Length of the game: 15
team (5 players and the
minutes
goalkeeper)
Development:
The floorball or unihockey is a team sport, practiced on
track
cover. The goal is to put a plastic ball into the goal
otherwise using a light cane. Both teams have five players
and
a janitor at the track. Floorball rules are quite similar to
those
Ice hockey, with some obvious differences. Is a
fast game, and is popular as a competitive sport as well
as for
maintain fitness.
Variants:
The infiltrate: teams of 3-6 players. A ball per team. It is
played on a field divided into two areas; two teams, one
to each field, except for an infiltrator from each group
were placed on opposite face area. The team that has the
ball hits his infiltrated passes while others avoid it. If the
pass is achieved scores a point if it is intercepted passes
to attack the other team.

Introduction
The floorball or unihochey is relatively young. Its origin can be placed in the
fifties and in the US, as derived from the practice ice hockey adapted so
young.
The first championship was held in Michigan (USA) in 1962. In a few years it
was sold widely in other countries like Canada and acquired its own
characteristics as a sport, with different technical and tactical aspects of ice
hockey.
At the end of the sixties the floorball was introduced in Sweden becoming very
popular in schools and among young athletes. Such success carries born in
1981 Swedish International Floorball Federation (IFF).
Gradually, the game is spreading in countries like Finland, Switzerland,
Denmark, Norway, Hungary, Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium. Today there
are more than 19 countries that belong to the IFF, where the organization
promotes the various international competitions.
In Spain, was implanted in schools within PE classes. It would be in 1998 when
the Spanish association of floorball is constituted with the aim of structuring,
organizing and promoting this new sport in our country.

Adrin Cano Yepes