HOCKEY DETAILED INFO [SPORTS]

Field Hockey, also called HOCKEY, out-of-door game played by two opposing brigades of 11 players  each who use sticks twisted at the striking end to hit a small, hard ball into their  opponent’s thing. It's called field hockey to distinguish it from the analogous game played on ice.

Hockey is believed to date from the foremost societies. The Arabs, Greeks, Persians, and Romans each had their own performances, and traces of a stick game played by the Aztec Indians of South America have been set up. Hockey can also be linked with other early games, similar as hurling and shinty. During the Middle periods a French stick game called hoquet was played, and the English word may be deduced from it.

Hockey began to be played in English seminaries in the late 19th century, and the first men’s hockey club, at Blackheath in southeastern London, recorded a nanosecond book in 1861. Teddington, another London club, introduced several major variations, including the ban of using hands or lifting sticks above the shoulder, the relief of the rubber cell by a sphere as the ball, and most importantly, the espousing of a striking circle, which was incorporated into the rules of the recently innovated Hockey Association in London in 1886.

Transnational competition began in 1895. By 1928 hockey had come India’s public  game, and in the Olympic Games that time the Indian platoon, contending for the first time, won the gold order without conceding a thing in five matches. It was the launch of India’s  domination of the sport, an period that ended only with the emergence of Pakistan in the late 1940s. The call for further transnational matches led to the preface in 1971 of the World Cup. Other major transnational events include the Asian Cup, Asian Games, European Cup, andPan-American Games. Men’s field hockey was included in the Olympic Games in 1908 and 1920 and also permanently from 1928. Inner hockey, played by brigades of six players with six changing backups, has come popular in Europe.