Amputee Football

*What is amputee football?

Amputee football is when you lose a leg or arm, and become amputee, it‘s doesn‘t have  to stop you from enjoing what you love  to do. Tree of the players  each have one leg and the fourth player , the goalkeeper, has one arm. The rules of the game similar to five-a-side football, except of course there are only four players on the pich for each team. This first National Amputee Football Cup was played in 2003 whith six teams from all over England.

*Can you play football game with one foot?

Amputee footbal is exciting to watch. Tyahe players in all the teams at the National Cup are as fast, skilful and physical as in  any similar, non-disabled, five-a-side tournament and all the matches entertained the crowd. One of the people who watched was Rick Hofmann, Executive Director of the American Amputee Soccer Association, who had flow in just for  the day  to watch the competition. Hse was impressed and said: I‘ll use what i learned here  to try  to start an American programme. Maybe we can have atransatlantic 4 v 4 tournament before too long.

Author Monika Zubavičiūtė