Street football

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The street football (engl. Streetfootballworld or street soccer ) is a form of playing football . But it can also be viewed as a separate sport . It is mostly played on public “street squares” ( concrete surface ), from which the name is derived. Street football is particularly popular in poorer regions, such as Africa or South America , as only very simple means are required to practice it. The ball is usually made from scraps of fabric or leather, and the goals are often formed by markings on the ground. Often a fence or a wall is enough to limit the playing field. This means that street football can be played in almost all regions of the world and is probably one of the most popular sports in the world, although it is not a recognized sport at all. Many footballers owe their careers not least to playing on the street, because they often grew up in poor circumstances (e.g. in Brazil , Nigeria or Argentina ).

Official game rules

Each team has four players and up to four substitutes. The substitutes may be substituted in and out as often as they like. The flying change applies. The playing field is 15 meters long and 10 meters wide. The goals are about the size of an ice hockey goal. The playing time is between 10 and 15 minutes. When throwing in, the ball is rolled up. Normally there are almost no rules as there is no referee . The two teams must therefore agree and decide for themselves when a foul was played and when not. This is what makes u. a. the attraction of street football, as only the playing skills are required and can decide a game. In addition, there are different game variants that should make the game more interesting and thus offer variety.

Game variants

Panna K.-o.

In the so-called "Panna K.-o." two players face each other in a direct duel. The aim of the game is to inflict a "panna" on the opponent, i. That is, to play the ball through the legs of the player with the legs open, also called "tunneling" or "Beini" in football jargon . But the panna is only complete if, as a "tunneling" player, you can get the ball back after the panna. If this condition is also met, the "tunneled" player has automatically lost. However, if he can win the ball for himself, play continues. There is no time limit, except for official tournaments.

Soccer tennis

Another game that is very popular with young people is soccer tennis , which is based on a mixture between the well-known tennis and soccer. Two parties (the number of players can be expanded from one per side to unlimited) play over a badminton or tennis net. The aim is to play the ball back and forth between the two sides without touching the ground until it hits one of the two halves of the game. The party that does not hit the ground receives one point. There are also numerous variations: tennis balls are often played as they are even more difficult to control. Almost every type of ball imaginable is used. However, all games have in common that, like in football, all parts of the body (except the hand) can be used to help.

King of the Ring

In the less popular "King of the Ring", an undefined number of players play against each other in a defined area. Each of these players carries a ball by their feet. The aim of the game is to be the last of all participants to walk your own ball. The others can be kicked out by shooting their playground equipment into the area outside the markings. At least three people are required to play, there is no upper limit here either. However, the number of players should be considered, since a correspondingly large area is required for playing.

"Royal shooting" or "wall shooting"

A game that is particularly popular in school is the “King's Shooting”. Any number of players gather in front of a wall and set up a numbering in the order of which they will be played. Player 1 starts by shooting the ball against any point on the wall (or any other vertical and hard surface). The ball bouncing off the wall must be kicked back against the wall by player 2 when it hits the ball. If he has managed that, player 3 must hit the wall again, etc. Whoever does not hit the playing area (or does not hit the ball) is eliminated. The game is played until there is only one player left who has then won. In Westphalia this game was called "Berlinerschießen", alluding to the Berlin Wall.

"Keep up" or "hold up"

During the “keep up” ( better known as “holding up” in Germany ) the people taking part usually stand around in a circle. A ball is kicked into the air by any player at the opening of the game without using their hands. He can play one of the teammates, but he can also present the ball to himself. Now all players who come into contact with the ball must keep it in the air without it touching the ground. All body parts except the hands are allowed. To make the game even more difficult, it is often played with just one touch of the ball (often known as one-touch). This means that the player who currently has the ball must immediately pass it on to one of the others. A second touch would have eliminated him. People are also eliminated if the ball falls to the ground after touching them.

High in

Hochin or Luftkönig ( Hochball , Hoch-Eins, Hexenkessel, Auspunkt, Yoyo, Ball-Auster (from "aus der Luft") etc.) is also a very popular game in Germany. First of all, one of the participants is chosen or drawn by lot who has to enter the goal first. Then the real game begins: the players gather in front of the goalkeeper. Now begin this, similar to holding up to keep the ball in the air. Here, too, there are different versions. T. contact of the play equipment with the ground is allowed. The aim of the game is to get the ball into the goal. The only condition is that every goal must be scored after a direct shot from the air ( volley ). It should also be noted that the player who shoots the ball is not allowed to present the ball to himself, so he has to rely on the cooperation of his competitors. If the player hits the goal under the above conditions, the current goalkeeper loses one point. If the player shoots the ball past the goal or shoots the ball directly into the goal after touching the ground, it is exchanged for the current goalkeeper and must now prevent goals himself. Rules can be established that save the player who should actually go into the goal. Conditions can also be set for the goalkeeper, on the basis of which he can leave the goal immediately and try to score goals again as an active player. The game is over as soon as a player has lost all of his points.

Penalty Knights

Knighting from the penalty spot works similarly to holding up, only it's not about volley shots, but about penalty kicks. The number of participants in the penalty knight is unlimited. At the beginning of the game, a volunteer usually goes into the goal who either has one point more or cannot lose any points in the first round. If a shooter shoots or the ball is held by the goalkeeper, the shooter has to go into the goal in the next round and the goalkeeper joins the line of shooters again. The current goalkeeper can, depending on the rules, lose one point with every penalty or only one point per stay in the goal until he stops. If the goalkeeper has lost his last point, he remains in the goal until the first shooter fails. The winner is the one who is the last to have points in his account.

Competitions

The first street soccer world championship (officially streetfootballworld festival 06) was held as an official part of the arts and culture program of the soccer world championship 2006 in Berlin. The organizer was streetfootballworld, a worldwide network for street football. The winner was the Mathare Youth Sports Association project from a slum in Nairobi , Kenya .

A world championship for the homeless has existed since 2003 under the name Homeless World Cup . At that time the tournament took place in Graz, Austria. Since then, the venue of the annual event has changed.

The German street soccer championships have been in existence since 2006. The tournament is intended to bring the public into the focus of the general public, in particular on the socially disadvantaged from the lower classes of society. Well-known personalities have stood behind the event again and again. For example, the former DFB President Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder was the patron of the 2007 event, ex-Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder represented the event in his hometown of Hanover in September 2008 and the reigning Bundesliga top scorer Grafite presented the 2009 winner's trophy. Even national coach Joachim Löw stepped in 2010 as Representative of the social event.

  • 2006 Kiel - Hannibal's heirs Kiel (winner)
  • 2007 Stuttgart - Hannover youth workers' housing estate (winner)
  • 2008 Hanover - Kalandhof Celle (winner)
  • 2009 Gifhorn - Hannibal's heirs Kiel (winner)
  • 2010 Hamburg - Hannibal's heirs Kiel (winner)
  • 2011 Wiesbaden - Dirty Devils Gifhorn (winner)

Information on the German championships and the participation of the German national team in the Homeless World Cup is available at the start! Federal Association for Social Integration through Sport e. V.

Products

There are now several computer and console games on the market for street football, including the FIFA Street series by the game developer EA Sports .

The language of the street players

Street football in the football-loving Ruhr area and the Rhineland developed a vocabulary rich in images, vivid and often drastic. From the time after 1945, when children and adolescents were still playing soccer with rags, leather patches or old tennis balls, expressions such as pöhlen , in the Rhineland also pöllen (= violently kick something / a ball with your foot ), fumble (= over a small area fighting for possession ) or flirting (= onomatopoeic for flanks , shooting the ball sideways). Kiste represented every type of gate . The ball was referred to as an egg , (P) fluff or Flemme . As Poehler was a particularly reckless player when Fummler a narcissistic ball technicians, as pince-nez , who retired very quickly in enemy attacks one. The word 'Pöhler' is used to describe street footballers in the Ruhr area today. The word became known nationwide when the trainer Jürgen Klopp began to wear a cap with the imprint Pöhler .

Warwitz documents a number of expressions typical of the Ruhr area, such as: "Gehn wa pöhlen?" - "Komste mit flerzen?" Or "Let dat eternal fumbling and baller finally!" He also quotes a passage from the reporter report of a Schalke game: "Szepan fischte dat Egg from the mess and gurgled the meat against the lid of the box. She gonged back against Tilkowski's pear and with an acrobatic puller (p) Kuzorra planted the (P) fluff in the mesh. The Klodt (= Schalke goalkeeper ) tore it off the tiller (= the legs). "

The adoption of the language in journalists' German speaks for a greater spread among the population and a certain popularity. The idiosyncratic imagery of the street players was even analyzed in German lessons in the 1970s.

literature

  • W. Haubrich: The visual language of sport in contemporary German . Schorndorf 1965.
  • H. Küpper: Dictionary of German colloquial language . Hamburg 1955.
  • SA Warwitz: Sport in the Mirror of Language - an Analysis of Metaphors . Schorndorf 1967.
  • SA Warwitz: Interdisciplinary sports education. Didactic perspectives and model examples of interdisciplinary teaching . Schorndorf 1976.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Football is more! Special supplement for the 5th German soccer championship for the homeless, Hinz & Kunzt 209 / July 2010
  2. ↑ 3rd German championship in street football of the homeless 2008. ( Memento from February 26th, 2009 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ^ German championships in Gifhorn 2009
  4. ↑ German championship on the Schlossplatz a great success  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wiesbadener-tagblatt.de  
  5. ^ German participation in the Homeless World Cup
  6. ↑ W. Haubrich: The visual language of sport in contemporary German. Schorndorf 1965.
  7. ^ SA Warwitz: Sport in the mirror of language - an analysis of metaphors . Schorndorf 1967.
  8. ↑ The Swabian is still in “Pöhler” Klopp. In: The West online. March 30, 2012.
  9. ^ SA Warwitz: Sport in the mirror of language - an analysis of metaphors . Schorndorf 1967, p. 20 ff.
  10. ^ SA Warwitz: Interdisciplinary sports education. Didactic perspectives and model examples of interdisciplinary teaching . Schorndorf 1976, p. 73 ff.