What is Floorball?

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What is Floorball?

Floorball is an indoors team sport played with plastic sticks where the aim is to put a light ball into the other team's goal. The game is most popular in Sweden, Finland and Switzerland, and is also played in several other countries, such as Norway and Czech Republic. It is gaining popularity in many other places as well, including some countries outside of Europe such as Singapore, Japan and Taiwan.

In German-speaking countries the game is called Unihockey, in Swedish it is innebandy, and in Finnish salibandy. North American cosom hockey is a very similar sport. In Japan and Taiwan the term Unihoc is most commonly used.

A floorball team consist of 5 field players and one goalkeeper who has no stick. The playing field is 40 x 20 metres and enclosed by a board (50 cm tall). The goal cages are 160 x 115 cm and 65 cm deep. The sticks are made of plastic or carbon and a bit over 1 metre long. The shaft is no longer than 95 cm and a blade of a different kind of plastic is attached to its end. The ball is made of plastic, is 72 mm in diameter, has a maximum weight of 23 grams, and has 26 holes in it.

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