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This is the only sport specifically created for blind or partially sighted |
The XXIV Spain Goalball Championships held this weekend, 7 and 8 June, end in Cartagena.
It is organized by the Spanish Blind Sports Federation (FEDC) and the Territorial Delegation of ONCE in Murcia, with the cooperation of the City of Cartagena.
It is the only Paralympic sport specifically created for blind or with severe visual impairment and whose origins date back to after World War II as a method of rehabilitation for veterans who lost their sight in combat people.
Concentration is the main advantage to compete in this sport and you will have to master the eight teams participating in this weekend's event nationwide.
In the male category, battle for first place Canarias, Valencia, Cantabria and Chamartín;
and female, Aragon, Seville, San Sebastian and Murcia, where the team Marta Lidia Bathrooms Cartagena is located.
MATCHES
On Saturday, 7 meetings begin at 16, 45 and Sunday, at 9 am.
In the afternoon, day 8 final will be held from 16pm.
This was explained on Thursday during the presentation ceremony José Ignacio Garrido, head of the department of Social Services ONCE in the Region of Murcia, who has also participated in the Spanish Paralympic Goalball Team. This sport helps the blind as method of rehabilitation on mobility, autonomy and movement, he added.
With these events, sporting values ​​that can be applied in their day to day these people with disabilities, such as personal growth, teamwork or just learn how to function in life, inculcated clarified Germán Moya, director ONCE Cartagena.
Also added is an opportunity to spread our city and what is behind the project of this entity as the social work they do.
You are 8 Championships in Spain that have hosted Cartagena, one more way to promote the sport in the city and attract and diversify tourism, concluded Councillor for Sports, Diego Ortega.
WITH A Bullet "N SOUND
The Goalball team is made up of 3 players, who face in a field the size of a volleyball, but not red in the center with two goals.
A central and two lateral, whose eyes are covered with a mask, competing to become a sound ball, similar to basketball, but weighs more, no boot and has bells inside.
Athletes have to be guided by a tactile lines on the floor and storey move the ball in order to score the goal in the opposing goal.
At present there are about 45 teams nationally in this country.
In the male category, there are three divisions, and the female one.
The Spanish National Goalball the men compete next July at the World Championships in Finland and fight for a place in the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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