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Football 5-a-side, [1] more commonly known as Blind football or Blind football, is a variation of association football designed for players who are blind or visually impaired. It is currently a Paralympic sport , and the International Blind Sports Association (IBSA) also organizes a World Blind Football Championships .
Paralympic football consists of adaptations of the sport of association football for athletes with a physical disability.These sports are typically played using International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) rules, with modifications to the field of play, equipment, numbers of players, and other rules as required to make the game suitable for the athletes.
In order to play blind football at the Paralympics, athletes must be classified as B1. ‘B’ stands for blind and ‘B1’ includes those with “very low visual acuity and/or no light ...
Football 5-a-side, also known as blind football, has been contested at the Summer Paralympics since 2004. The competition has consisted of a single event, men's team; women have never competed. [1] Football 5-a-side is an adaptation of football for athletes with visual impairments including blindness.
This is blind football, one of two silent sports at the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games. This type of ambiance is unthinkable in most sports venues, but especially in a sport like soccer, whose fans ...
B1 is a medical-based Paralympic classification for blind sport. Athletes in this classification are totally or almost totally blind. It is used by a number of blind sports including blind tennis, blind cricket, blind golf, five-a-side football, goalball and judo.
2022 IBSA Blind Football European Championships [3] 8–18 June 2022: Pescara: 1 Turkey. 2022 IBSA Blind Football African Championships: 14–26 September 2022: Bouznika: 1 Morocco. 2022 IBSA Blind Football Asian-Oceanian Championships [4] 11–18 November 2022: Kochi: 1 China: 2023 IBSA World Games [5] 18–27 August 2023: Birmingham: 3 ...
PARIS (AP) — France defeated Argentina 3-2 on penalties under the lights of the Eiffel Tower for the gold medal in blind football on the penultimate day of the Paralympic Games. Frederic Villeroux scored the decisive spot kick to get the partisan home fans’ party underway after the teams drew 1-1 in normal time on Saturday.