Floorball
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Floorball is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper in each team. It is played indoors with 96–115.5 cm-long sticks and a 70–72 mm-diameter plastic ball with holes. Matches are played in three twenty-minute periods. The sport of... Wikipedia
Clubs: 4396
Country or region: Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Norway, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Singapore
Equipment: Shoes; Floorball stick; Glasses for safety
First played: 1960; 64 years ago; – late 1960s in Gothenburg, Sweden
Highest governing body: International Floorball Federation
Mixed-sex: Yes, and separate competitions
Nicknames: indoor bandy; innebandy; salibandy; unihockey; plastic hockey