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Gaelic Football - Movies, Music, Fashion, Sports - Posted: 8th May, 2007 - 7:10pm
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Gaelic Football
The game is played with a round leather football, similar to a soccer ball, but heavier. Teams consist of fifteen players (a goalkeeper, two corner backs, a full back, three half backs, two mid fielders, three half forwards, two corner forwards and a full forward) plus up to fifteen substitutes, of which five may be used.
It is very similar to soccer but just few variations.
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| Gaelic Football (Irish: Peil or Caid ), commonly referred to as "football", "Gaelic" or "GAA" some times pronounced as 'gah', is a form of football played mainly in Ireland. It, along with Hurling, is the most popular spectator sport in Ireland.[1] Gaelic football is played by teams of 15 on a rectangular grass pitch with H-shaped goals at each end. The primary object is to score by pushing the ball through the goals. The team with the highest score at the end of the match wins. Players advance the ball up the field with a combination of carrying, soloing (dropping and then toe-kicking the ball upward into the hands), kicking, and hand-passing to their team-mates. Gaelic football is one of four Gaelic Games run by the Gaelic Athletic Association, the largest and most popular organization in Ireland. It has strict rules on player amateurism and the pinnacle of the sport is the inter county All-Ireland Football Final. The game is believed to have descended from ancient Irish football known as caid which dates back to 1537, although the modern game took shape in 1887. |
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