Brazil

Korfball: sociability in the first place.
Team sport encourages sociability in children and young people.
For Isabela Pimentel

A sport that emerged in the Netherlands has gained its place in Brazil, especially in large urban centers: the Korfebol. For those unfamiliar, the sport can help develop children and youth, not only in the school environment, but also in social life.

According to Marcello Beppi, physical education teacher, a representative of the sport in the country since 1998 and coach of the Brazilian Korfebol, the most important in your practice is stimulating the emotional question:

- Being a strategy game, not aggressive and engage ball, teamwork is in the first place, much more than other collective sports, because you can not move with the ball, or to receive it you have to go to a comrade who is on the move. This rule makes the democratic process and strategic evaluation.

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Beppi says the sport can be a great ally of educators, because it helps the development of collaborative skills. It helps to reduce aggression by not being allowed physical contact, and helps a lot on the issue of conflict between genders, since the sport is necessarily mixed, while other sports separate sexes, korfebol unites genres, reflects.

Anyone from the age of five can play the game, since it has very flexible rules. The modality "korfebol family" draws attention and is a great opportunity to stimulate interaction between parents and children.

Unlike other sports that we know, with rules that end up excluding those who do not have a competitive profile, or "athletic", the Korfebol is the sport of inclusion, which can and should be practiced by anyone. He is recognized by the International Olympic Committee, practiced by 59 countries around the world, Brazil is the first South American country to develop this sport.

Korfball is this:
By Louis Peazê

In the beginning was the game, eleven on each side, one ball and defined positions. Then the Dutch enchanted the world, at the hands of the "General" Rinus Michels (football is a war) and genius in the feet and head Cruyff, with the "Clockwork Orange", called by us from A Clockwork Orange, and football has never been the same, from the 1970s.

After reinvent football, the Dutch spread throughout the world another way to play ball, this time mixing the sexes. It is widely practiced in Europe and is considered the only sport in the world officially practiced necessarily "co-ed," ie, the two genres, otherwise no way.

The Korfball is a sport of speed without physical contact. An attempt (shot) scores, for example, can only be made at a distance greater than the reach of the opponent's arms. It's fast because the player (?) Can not run with the ball - got stopped, shoot or pass. Yes, it is practiced with a ball, similar to football (soccer, football), but resembles something between basketball and netball. The playing field is a field with a pole (3.5 m high, or conveniently lower) at each end, each with a basket (basket, it would seem a straw basket with no background) in top. A special feature is that there is no table around the basket, the shots can be made anywhere, even behind the basket.

Two teams compete (?) Apart, each with eight players (?), Two men and two women in each zone, ie, four attackers and four defenders (?). The score is done by throwing the ball to the basket of the opponent (?). After two scores, the players switch teams (?) Of their areas, attackers are defending and start attacking defenders. But high there, as is the new thing on this planet, these rules have not been taken very seriously (by country), as in any other sport, she will forcing his tastes on time ...

It is practiced in 44 countries and growing. It is an Olympic sport (?). And why, after all, this profusion of question marks?

This is a way of questioning the fact that the apologists of his unquestioned ability Korfball promote socializing making comparisons with other modalities emphasizing that there is an "aggressive play" (?) - Perhaps in limbo while the game that separates the entertainment collective, joke of the play activity between distant generations.

When you become just a game, not hard to see in the voracity of the "players" the barbaric waste of time in which they celebrated a victory in the battle playing with the opponent's head, literally.

Links to learn more about Korfball:

http://www.korfeblog.blogspot.com/