Monday, May 16, 2011

Hockey

Hockey is one of the popular sport in the world. It is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.There are many types of hockey like;Field Hockey,Street Hockey,Ice Hockey,Roller Hockey,etc.




Games played with curved sticks and a ball have been found throughout history and the world. There are 4000-year-old drawings from Egypt. Hurling dates to before 1272 BC in Ireland, and there is a depiction from ca. 600 BC in Ancient Greece where the game may have been called kerētízein or kerhtízein (κερητίζειν) because it was played with a horn (kéras, κέρας) or horn-like stick.

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