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Floorball is a type of floor hockey with five field players and a goalkeeper on each team. Men and women play indoors with 96-115.5 cm long sticks and a plastic ball with holes. Matches are played in three twenty-minute periods. Developed in the 1970s in Sweden, floorball is most popular where it has developed the longest, such as the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. It is gaining popularity in Australia,〔(Floorball Australia ), Retrieved 18 April 2015〕 Canada,〔(What is floorball? ), (video-clip), ''Morning news Halifax'', 8 January 2015, Retrieved 22 April 2015〕 Germany,〔(www.floorball.de ), (''In German''), Retrieved 18 April 2015〕 Ireland,〔(Killarney Vikings Floorball Club ), Retrieved 22 April 2015〕 Japan,〔(Japan Floorball Federation ). (''in Japanese''), Retrieved 22 April 2015〕 Singapore,〔(Interview with GK from Singapore! ), Retrieved 18 April 2015〕 Malaysia,〔(www.floorballmalaysia.com ), Retrieved 26 April 2015〕 and the United States.〔(Wayne Gretzky älskar innebandy ) (''in Swedish''), Source:(www.aftonbladet.se ), Published 18 April 2015, Retrieved 18 April 2015〕 As of 2014, there are over 300,133 registered floorball players worldwide.〔(IFF ), Retrieved 29 September 2015〕 Professional leagues include Finland's Salibandyliiga and Sweden's Svenska Superligan. The sport is organized internationally by the International Floorball Federation (IFF). Events include an annual Euro Floorball Cup for club teams and the biennial World Floorball Championships with separate divisions for men and women. While the IFF contains 58 members, the Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland have consistently placed 1st, 2nd, or 3rd at the World Floorball Championships. The sport is relatively new and therefore evolving. The basic rules were established in 1979 when the first floorball club in the world, Sala IBK, was founded in Sweden.〔(Innebandyns födelse ), (''in Swedish''), (www.innebandy.se ), Retrieved 18 April 2015〕 Official rules for matches were first written down in 1981.〔 p. 2〕 ==History== The game has been played since the early 20th Century in Canada as a recreational sport, especially in high school gymnasiums. Most Canadian males born in the 1950s and before could attest to this. Similarly, during the 1950s and 1960s many public school systems within Michigan incorporated Floorball into their primary and secondary school gym classes. Later, the Americans claimed to have invented it, and held interstate tournaments in the 1960s. The game was formally organized as an international sport in the early 1970s in Gothenburg, Sweden.〔(floorballnation ) 〕〔(FLOORBALL - THE FUTURE SPORT ), www.freeway.org, Retrieved 18 April 2015〕〔(The True History of Floorball ), www.floorballcentral.org, Published 16 January 2010, Retrieved 18 April 2015〕 The sport began as something that was played for fun as a pastime at schools.〔 After a decade or so, floorball began showing up in Nordic countries where the former schoolyard pastime was becoming a developed sport. Formal rules soon were developed, and clubs began to form. After some time, several countries developed national associations, and the IFF was founded in 1986. The game of floorball is also known by many other names, such as salibandy (in Finland), innebandy (in Sweden and Norway), and unihockey (in Switzerland and Germany). The names "salibandy" and "innebandy" are derived from bandy; both of those names literally translate to "indoor bandy". Unihockey is derived from "universal hockey" since it is meant to be a special and simplified hockey form. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Floorball」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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