Footvolley

a hybrid of association football and volleyball

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Footvolley (Portuguese: Futevôlei, IPA: [futʃⁱˈvolej] in Brazil, Futevólei IPA: [ˌfutɨˈvɔlɐj] in Portugal) is a sport which combines aspects of beach volleyball and association football.[1]

Footvolley was created by Octavio de Moraes in 1965 in Brazil.[2] Footvolley combines field rules that are based on those of beach volleyballwith ball-touch rules taken from association football. Essentially footvolley is beach volleyball except players are not allowed to use their hands and a football replaces the volleyball.[3]

History

Footvolley was created by Octavio de Moraes in 1965[2] in Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach. The game of footvolley was first called 'pevoley', literally meaning "footvolley", but that name was discarded in favor of"futevôlei". Footvolley started in Rio de Janeiro, according to one player because football was banned on the beach, but volleyball courts were open.[4] The sport had spread to Recife, Salvador, Brasília, Goiânia, Santos and Florianópolis by the 1970s