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HANDBALL
The person who adapted and exposed the handball to the world was Karl Schelens, a teacher from an university from Berlim, who, passing by Uruguay, in 1919, saw an interestining sport similar to soccer but played with the hands. When he was back to Germany he adapted some rules and the game began to be played by two teams of eleven players in a field of grass. After the Second World War, with the hard winter, handball started to be played in the gymnasium, but to be played indoors the sport passed for some modifications, it started to require one goalkeeper and six players in line per team. Handball appeared on the Olympic Games, in 1936, in Berlim. But just in 1972 the handball changed for what we have today. Handball in Brazil appears after the First World War, the Germanians brought this sport to the south region of the country.
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