Blind football at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. It featured at the Paralympics for the first time at Athens 2004, and has been contested at every Games since. Brazil have won gold at every Games.

How does blind football work? Five-a-side football - more commonly known as blind football - is a game played by athletes ...

which included blind and partially-sighted football among other formate. The focus there was on the grassroots game, and making more people aware of the opportunities out there. It's an important ...

Rhys Stephenson: Blind football is five-a-side football for people who are visually impaired or blind. The aim of the game is simple to score more goals than the other team. And a big part of ...

Blind football is played by five players ... Ben, to start off with, I’m gonna come and stand by your left-hand side. If I take your left hand… BEN: Yeah. I’m going to place it on my ...

With the clock ticking down to the opening game on 7 June, find out how each debutant country qualified. Costa Rica stormed through the group stages of the 2017 IBSA Blind Football Central American ...

But this is no ordinary game of football: the players all bear heavy visual impairments to the point of blindness. They are members of the Premier Blind Football League in Juba, South Sudan.

Of the two versions of the game – Vision impaired futsal and Blind football (B1) – the latter one is played at the Paralympics and Asian Championships Currently, South Melbourne is the only ...