Handball is team game with ball. The players’ number of each team is seven. Handball is played in the enclosed areas of 800 m sq with the spherical inflatable ball of 20-24 cm in diameter and weight 425-475g for men and for women – 16-20 cm in diameter with weight of 325-375 g. The game consists of two parts, each is to 30 minutes (the “dirty” time; there is a watch time only during of half times, technical breaks) with the break between half times of 10 minutes. The aim of the game is to score the balls in the gate of opponents as more as possible. At the same time the players shouldn’t out step the six-meter at the gate. It is forbidden. Tie is allowed in handball.[sc name="adsense"]
There are first mentions about the old games with ball and hand in “Odissey” of Gomer and in the works of the Roman physician Galena. In the Middle Ages Walter devoted his poems to like games. In XIX − XX century the Danish soccer players thought out the new kind of football instead of football in the winter time. Handball differed from football: it was played with hands, and each team consisted of 6 players and goalkeeper. The date of the registration of handball as sport game is considered to be 1898, when the sport teacher of Danish town Ordrup Holger Nilson made handball the sport discipline for female groups and named this game handball (“hand” and “bolld”). The game was played on the field with two teams of 7 players. The players’ aim was to score the ball in the gates.
The searches that were made in the recent years give us the reasons to find that the date of handball is considered to be the earlier periods. In 1890 there was in Czech the national game with the name “Hasena”. The game wasn’t based on the regulated laying of ball and fang of ball in the mixed groups without duel. In 1917 Berliner Max Haiser made from two games the new game for women with “handball”. Nobody couldn’t imagine that this game could be so popular around the whole world.
The new rise in the development of handball began after the Formation in 1946 the international Federation of Handball – IHF. It approved the program of actions that were formed after the new birth of handball, and designed the game’s holding in format of handball 11×11 with the participation of men and women teams. In World Cup in handball of women in 1949 the strongest team was the Hungarian team.
In the following years World Cups were held one time in four years. There were 7 men and 3 women World Cups in handball format 11×11. In 1966 the seventh and last World Cup of handball in format 11×11. That influenced the development of handball in format 7×7.
