Australian Football

Australian football (also called Aussie Rules) is a team sport with a ball. He absorbed the elements of the usual football, rugby, basketball, we even have some details of fights without rules. His popularity has been growing lately all over the world.

The beginning of the game occurs after the ball is thrown by the referee into the ground. After he bounces, he is considered entered into the game. It is this element that brings together the rules of football Aussie Rules with basketball.

For each team there is a goal: to hit the opponent's goal, moving forward on the field with the ball, and as a result to score more points. Each team has two pairs of gates, which are located on each other. They are at the ends of the field. In the area of 50 meters near the gate there is a zone in which the attack on the player who received the ball is prohibited. Hit the ball in the big goal scored by a goal and brings the team 1 point. In the case when the ball is scored with the foot into the inner, narrower, 6 points are awarded for the goal.

The height of the goal is not limited in such a game as Australian football. The rules regulate the main points:

• Running with the ball in your hands is allowed no more than 10 steps;
• Having run this distance, the ball either gives away, or continues with it movement, necessarily before it having struck it about the ground;
• It can be transmitted in any direction by feet or hands.

If a player in Australian football gives a pass with his foot, and his opponent fixes the ball with his hands, then the latter has the opportunity and the right to make a free kick. In the process of fighting athletes for the main trophy, if he was pressed to the ground, the judge stops the course of the fight and produces his throwing. It is carried out by hands, the ball strikes against the ground with force. If players in Australian football accidentally forced him out of the field, then in this case the judge also releases. He turns his back to the field and throws the ball over his head.

Each team consists of 18 people, and participants are divided into central players, backbones, forwards and semi-forwards, midfielders, followers (they take the maximum burden on the run).

Australian Football. Rules for the organization of the playing field and the requirements for the ball

This game provides an oval field. It should have large dimensions: in length - 185 m, and in width - 155 m (small deviations are allowed). The center of the field is delimited by a rectangle with a circle in it. Team building takes place at the edges of the quadrilateral, and the ball is thrown into the circle. It has an oval shape. This rugby variant and its weight is about 670 grams.

The match is a total of 80 minutes. And consists of four periods. Each of them lasts 20 minutes. Only pure playing time is taken into account. At various delays, the stopwatch is immediately stopped.

Australian football is known for a long time. Play it since the 19th century. This is quite a tough game. Being one of the most dynamic competitions, it provides for a power struggle. Match is extremely rare, even if the player was seriously injured.

In Russia, in 2011, the Federation of Australian Football was established. It includes players from Krasnoyarsk and Moscow. The country team was represented at the European Championships in 2011 and consisted of Russian and foreign participants. The game used modified football rules. The team on the basis of the last tournament took the 10th place out of the declared 18. She defeated Catalonia and Denmark and gave way to Croatia and Wales.

This year it is planned to create the first league in Russia with the two Moscow teams entering it. On a permanent basis in the country, Australian football is engaged in 20 people. The rest of the players are foreigners. Trains players Roger Scott, a visiting Australian expat.