Blind football
Blind football is a sport from the field of blind sports that has been practiced and trained in Germany since summer 2006. This sport has been offered in Austria since October 2009 - but to this day there is only one Austrian team in Vienna. Two teams compete against each other with five players each. The goal is to shoot the ball into the opponent's goal , just like a soccer player . The players on the field are blind in the sense of the highest level of severity B1. Eye patch bandages and eye patches compensate for any differences in visual impairment among players. The goalkeepers are the only players allowed to have normal vision. She and the team's own guides , who are positioned behind the opposing goal, as well as the coaches on the boards direct their players with shouts. In addition to the blind and sighted, women and men also play together, so blind football is more inclusive than almost any other sport. The inside of the ball has rattles and is thus audible.
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The game is played on a roughly 20 × 40 meter large rectangular field, the long sides of which are bordered by stable side borders. A smooth front of these boards without feet protruding into the field is essential, since the players play over boards and feel their way along them during the game. Internationally, blind football is often played indoors , hence the term blind futsal , but can also be played outdoors under appropriate conditions (quiet location of the venue). Artificial turf or natural turf form the subsurface.
According to the rules for blind football, which was developed by the umbrella organization for blind sports in Europe, the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA), based on the futsal rules of FIFA , the following rules are binding in competitions:
- The field is 38 to 42 meters long and 18 to 22 meters wide. In the middle of the playing area is a circle six meters in diameter. A line drawn through the center of the circle divides the field into two halves. The goal is three meters wide and two meters high, the goal area around the goal is 5 × 2 meters. Penalty kicks are taken from a point six meters from the center of the goal.
- Eight meters from the center of the goal there is another point on the field from which free kicks are taken. This differs from football-sighted players who take their free kicks from any point on the field of play.
- The playing time is 50 minutes with two halves of 25 minutes each.
- The ball is made of leather or synthetic, has a circumference of 62 cm and a weight of 510-540 grams. It is therefore smaller and heavier than FIFA football. Inside it is provided with several loud rattles.
- A public address system is required near the timekeeper in order to verbally announce time-outs and to ask the audience to be quiet.
- There is no offside rule in blind football.
Characteristics of the game
The game of blind players works through good hearing, a sense of direction, body control and close contact with the audible ball. Thanks to a special running technique, the ball and feet stay in contact until they are released. The goalkeepers, coaches and a guide posted behind each goal make it easier to find your way around by shouting. In the event of a penalty kick taken from the six-meter point in blind football, the goalkeeper knocks on the left and right of the post with a stick before the kick to help the shooter orientate himself.
Blind football international
At the Paralympic Games in Athens , blind football was included as football 5-a-side as a demonstration sport in the canon of the Olympic disciplines. National teams from Argentina , Brazil , France , Greece , South Korea , Russia and Spain were sent . Blind football is now practiced in over 40 countries. Responsibility for the international development and organization of blind football lies in the hands of the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA). With the support of UEFA , the IBSA organizes blind football seminars for coaches and referees of the UEFA national associations across Europe as part of its futsal development program for the blind.
Continental championships are held every two years and a world championship is held every four years. At the fifth European Championship, which was held in Athens in 2007, the German national blind football team was also involved for the first time , but in the end only finished in seventh and last place.
In the summer of 2008, the second Paralympics took place in the Chinese capital Beijing , where blind football was played. From September 7th to 17th, the national teams from Spain, England, China, South Korea, Brazil and Argentina staged the soccer tournament for people with visual impairments. After a round of everyone against everyone, with games being played every two days, additional placement games for 1st, 3rd and 5th place took place at the end. Brazil won the gold medal with a 2-1 win over China: China took the lead shortly before the break, Brazil equalized and converted an eight-meter penalty into the winning goal in the final minute. In the game for the bronze medal it was 1: 1 between Argentina and Spain after the end of the season: the six-meter shoot-out ended 1: 0. Also in the game for 5th place there was a 1-0 shootout after a 1-1 draw in regular time: Great Britain won against South Korea.
The following European Championship was held in June 2009 in Nantes / France. For the first time, France replaced the Spaniards as European champions, who ended up in third place behind England. Germany finished the competition in fifth place behind the Greeks. During this European Championship, Germany also achieved its first ever victory. In the group game, the Germans won 4-0 against the national team from Italy and also defeated Turkey 2-1 in the placement game. The next European Championship took place in 2011 in Aksaray, Turkey. Here the German team finished eighth and last place in the tournament, while France was European champion again, ahead of Spain and England.
On the day of blind football in May 2010, the German national team welcomed the Turkish team to the first home game on Pariser Platz in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. In the end, Germany won the match in front of a large audience 3-2.
In August 2010 the fourth world championships for blind football took place in Hereford / England. Ten teams fought in two groups for the bowl. Brazil defeated the Spaniards 2-0 in the final and became world champions in blind football for the third time. Third place went to China. The hosts England found themselves in fourth place in the end. European champions France landed in 5th place, while ex-world champions Argentina finished in a disappointing seventh place behind Colombia and ahead of Greece and South Korea.
The German national blind soccer team took part for the first time at the 4th IBSA World Games in 2011 . The World Games were held in Antalya / Turkey. Together with England, Thailand and China, the DBS athletes fought for a place in the semi-finals. With a win over Thailand (5: 0), a draw over China (1: 1) and a defeat over England (1: 4), they did not have enough points to finish second in the group. In the game for fifth place, the Germans again defeated Turkey (2-1) and finished this competition satisfactorily. In the second group, Iran and 2009 European champions, France, made it to the semi-finals. Iran secured the trophy of the 4th IBSA Worldgames. Second place went to France, while China took bronze.
At the EM 2013, which was held in Loano, Italy, Germany prevailed as group winners and made it to the semi-finals. Against the eventual European champions Spain, however, the team lost 2-0 and the game for third place against Turkey was lost in a shoot-out from the penalty mark. With fourth place, Germany qualified for the World Cup for the first time.
As a newcomer to the world stage, Germany finished the group stage in second place behind eventual runner-up Argentina and ahead of reigning European champions Spain. In the quarterfinals, however, the Germans had to admit defeat to the old and new world champions from Brazil 4-0. In the end, Germany took eighth place out of twelve participating nations.
The first European Championship took place in Germany in August 2017 . The Disabled Sports Association Berlin is organizing the upcoming IBSA European Blind Football Championship together with the German Disabled Sports Association . The eight first-placed teams of the 2015 European Championship in Hereford are considered to be qualified for this tournament. The first four placements qualify for the 2018 World Cup, which is expected to take place in Spain.
Blind football in Germany
The history of blind football in Germany began with the first international blind football tournament on May 26 and 27, 2006 in Berlin. Up to now there has been no organized, club-tied blind football as in South America, England or Spain. To change this, representatives of the Social Association of Germany ( SoVD ), the German Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired ( DBSV ) in cooperation with the Disabled Sports Association Berlin (BSB) and Hartl + Tank GbR have developed ideas for establishing football for the blind in Germany organized the first representative international tournament in Berlin, the International Blind Challenge Cup ( IBCC ). This took place in May 2006. The guests were Brazil (gold at the Paralympics 2004 in Athens) and the three best teams of the European Championships 2005 in Málaga / Spain: Spain, France, England. The teams played for the 1st Berlin IBCC Cup, which, as a designated challenge cup, symbolizes the future continuation of blind football tournaments in Germany. In a final of the tournament's top teams, Brazil (six goals) and Spain (four goals), Spain won 1-0. France ended up in third place. The IBCC was under the supervision of four licensed IBSA referees from England, France, Greece and Spain.
After this official kick-off in Berlin, to this day (December 2009), soccer teams have been established at 12 training locations. Little by little, blind athletes began regular training in Tübingen, Mainz, Stuttgart, Würzburg, Dortmund, Essen, Berlin, Chemnitz, Marburg and Hamburg. The first German indoor blind football tournament took place in Tübingen in March 2007 , at which six teams (Mainz, Tübingen, Würzburg, Dortmund, Marburg, Hamburg) competed for the first time. The kickers from Dortmund defeated the host team Tübingen in the final and won the tournament. The team from Mainz secured the bronze trophy. Places four to six went to Marburg, Hamburg and Würzburg.
The first really big comparison in German blind football took place on May 26, 2007 in Neumünster . Exactly one year after the official starting gun for blind football, all of Germany's teams that had trained so far met each other in the so-called light kick tournament in Schleswig-Holstein. A special feature here was that for the first time a tournament was played in the open air. It was already a certain championship in blind football, which the team from Marburg only won in the 6-meter shooting against the Mainz carnival kickers. Third place went to the team from Stuttgart. The remaining places went to Dortmund, Essen, Hamburg, Würzburg, Chemnitz and Berlin in that order.
In December 2007 Stuttgart won the last tournament in 2007 in Marburg by beating the hosts. Places three to 7 went to the teams from Dortmund, the Essen-Berlin game community, Guide-Dogs Mainz, Chemnitz and the Würzburg sports team.
The German Disabled Sports Association (DBS) has also been actively involved in blind football since June 2007. Germany or the DBS would like to send a national team to competitions in this Paralympic sport as well. After an official job advertisement, two professional coaches were found who were tasked with forming a national team. Ulrich Pfisterer (head coach) and Peter Schreiner (team manager) are the coaches of this new team that will represent Germany internationally in blind football. In their first big task, the 5th IBSA European Blind Football Championship in Athens (end of September 2007), the German kickers had to be satisfied with seventh and last place. The German team lost their three group games 1: 3 against Turkey, 0: 3 against Greece and 0: 7 against France. Tübingen striker Alexander Fangmann scored the first and so far only goal for Germany. At the end of 2007, the team manager Schreiner withdrew from blind football, which means that the fate of the national team is in the hands of Ulrich Pfisterer.
In March 2008, the blind soccer Bundesliga founded by the DBS, DBSV and the Sepp Herberger Foundation started its first season. On three match days, the 2008 German blind soccer champions were selected from the eight participating teams. SSG Blista from Marburg was the first team in the history of blind football to secure this title. With 15 points from seven games, Marburg led the table ahead of Stuttgart, Dortmund, Essen and Mainz. In the end, the teams SG Würzburg-Berlin, Chemnitz and FC St. Pauli found themselves in places 6–8. In addition to Stuttgart and Dortmund, the venues were also the capital Berlin.
Due to the league and the increased media interest, more and more blind athletes can get enthusiastic about blind football. This has the consequence that the number of training teams continues to increase. Numerous workshops initiated by DBS and DBSV do their part here. In the course of the year, the teams were founded in Gelsenkirchen and Cologne, which means that four blind football teams are now based in North Rhine-Westphalia and the total number of teams has risen to eleven (as of Oct. 2008). In particular, training is currently taking place in Marburg, Essen, Cologne, Dortmund, Mainz, Gelsenkirchen, Stuttgart, Berlin, Tübingen, Chemnitz, Hanover, Braunschweig, Oldenburg, Herzlake, Würzburg and Hamburg. There are plans to create venues in Nuremberg, Ilvesheim and Bremen.
In October 2008, blind football came to Hamburg for the first time for a major event. The indoor masters Keep your mind wide open was held on October 18th and 19th in the sports hall on Budapester Straße in St. Pauli. In addition to FC St. Pauli, the participating teams were MTV Stuttgart , Guide-Dogs Mainz, Berlin, SSG Blista Marburg and, for the first time, the team from Cologne. MTV Stuttgart won the tournament with a 5-1 victory in the final against the reigning German champions SSG Blista Marburg. The teams from Mainz, St. Pauli, Berlin and Cologne landed on the other places. The Masters will be held every year in Hamburg in the future.
The blind soccer Bundesliga was continued in 2009, even with one more team than in the previous year. The PSV Cologne team appeared on the league stage and in the end secured the runner-up title. Last year's champion Marburg had to be satisfied with 4th place. The championship title was won with 22 points from eight MTV Stuttgart games. The team of the Franz Sales Haus from Essen had to cancel its participation in the league, but they were replaced by the second newcomer VfB Gelsenkirchen.
In September 2009 the Hallenmasters in Hamburg were held for the second time. Last year's winner Stuttgart, however, missed the finals this time, but secured third place. The ISC Dortmund took part for the first time, winning the cup in the 2009 final against PSV Cologne. The previous year’s second Marburg landed fourth in 2009. The LFC Berlin reached fifth place. Host St. Pauli came last.
In December 2009, the new league PSV Köln surprised with another indoor tournament. For the first time the Nikolaus Masters took place in the cathedral city. Five teams (Stuttgart, St. Pauli, Marburg, Saarbrücken and Cologne) played the title. The winning team was MTV Stuttgart, which defeated SSG Marburg in the six-meter shooting in the final. Newcomer Saarbrücken celebrated its premiere at this tournament, won its first game and ended up in 5th place in the tournament table. This tournament should also become a regular event in the winter half of the year in blind football.
In 2010, the blind soccer Bundesliga went into its third edition. Of course, many of the original teams are also involved and there are also innovations to report. For the first time, the SG Würzburg-Berlin teams competed independently in the season. Furthermore, a new syndicate came out of parquet. The SG Saar 05 Saarbrücken-Eintracht Braunschweig wanted to compete in size comparison for the first time. At the same time, the league also has to book cancellations. The Guide-Dogs BSG Mainz and the 2009 runner-up, PSV Cologne, had to cancel their participation for private reasons and professional obligations. The league started on March 13th in Barsinghausen near Hanover, continued in Würzburg and Marburg and found its 2010 champions on the day of the final in Hamburg. The 2010 MTV Stuttgart German champions were unbeaten. The silver medal went to ISC-Dortmund, and bronze was secured for the first time the LFC Berlin. SSG Marburg (champions 2008) found themselves in fourth place.
In the following year, the Stuttgart Open in blind football took place for the first time. In March, MTV Stuttgart invited a team from England (from Herefort), the Greek team from Thessaloniki, a Czech team from Brno and the German teams from Braunschweig and Gelsenkirchen. MTV Stuttgart was victorious, defeating the English in the final.
The league season started again in 2011. This time with match days in Cologne, Mannheim, Chemnitz and Hanover. MTV Stuttgart became German champions for the third time in a row. The champion from 2008 (Marburg) placed second. As in 2010, the bronze medal went to LFC Berlin. A total of nine teams took part in the league season (PSV Cologne, SG Mainz-würzburg, St. Pauli, VfB Gelsenkirchen, Eintracht Braunschweig and Chemnitzer FC).
Blind football in Austria
In Austria, blind football has been offered by the Austrian Disabled Sports Association since 2009. However, it took until 2016 for regular gaming operations to be established. There is currently only one team in Austria that has been competing in international tournaments under the name ÖBSV Vienna since 2018. Although the selection includes players from all over Austria, training is currently only taking place in Vienna. The greatest success of the Austrian selection so far is a tournament victory at the international tournament in Sant'Elpidio a Mare, where they beat the teams from Schalke 04, AS Roma and Cécifoot Charleroi to get the tournament victory. In addition, Austria has provided the first female captain of a blind football team in the history of IBSA with the player Bettina Sulyok.
See also
- Blind football Bundesliga
- [Blind football in Austria]
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Schöffmann (Disabled Sports Club ASVÖ Vienna) on football for the blind in Austria - football4all.eu
- ↑ Blind football. August 6, 2015, accessed November 13, 2019 .
- ↑ - ( Memento from June 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Great sport in Berlin. (No longer available online.) Disabled and Rehabilitation Sports Association Berlin eV, archived from the original on February 1, 2017 ; accessed on February 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Alexander Fangmann: Chronicle of the blind football. Retrieved February 1, 2017 .
- ↑ obsv.at - Austrian Disabled Sports Association (ÖBSV). Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Our team - Blindenfussball.at. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Sensational performance - ÖBSV team wins tournament in Italy! - Blindenfussball.at. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Poland win Blind Football Euro Challenge. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
