Rushball

Rushball is sporting game which is a variant of association football.
History
Rushball Federation has been founded in 2006 in Russia (Vladivostok).
Common elements
The purpose of the game is goal in the gate which is striking by the any parts of body excluded the arms. There are 10 field players and goalkeeper in each other of two teams in competition. Field has following size 100 m along and 50 m wide. Gate has following size 2.40 m height and 6.0 m wide.
Difference from soccer
The difference from association football consist in dividing the field on 5 types of zones which are Keeper Zone (1), Defense Zone (3), Neutral Zone (4), Attack Zone (5) and Free Kick Zone (2) (Fig. 1). Some specific rules are used to make effective and fast the game with the playing zones. At the first there are rules of keeper play: in Keeper Zone only Keeper. Defender in Keeper Zone means penalty, Striker in Keeper Zone means loose of the ball. Keeper out of Keeper Zone begin to be field player and can back after goal only.
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Next new rule is changed football offside: both of Neutral Zone bonders are fix offside lines. Far bonder is imported to strikers: striker in Attack Zone without the ball is in offside. This rule is similar to offside one in ice-hockey. But in Rushball some correction has been done to take in account defenders position relatively fix offside line: defender in Defense Zone means no offside to striker. So direct offside, or offside to striker, has combinative character in Rushball: it is determined as in ice-hockey on fix offside line but in other hand it depends on defender position as in football.
There is not only direct offside in Rushball but back offside is taken place too. Back offside is related to defenders only and means: pass the ball from Neutral Zone to defender in Defense Zone is loosing one. This rule is similar to basketball.
Some another rules must provide the effectiveness of game there are entrance of the ball by the feet after its fly out of field, no direct offside after the foul in Neutral Zone, free kick from the Line of Free Kick Zone after the foul in Attack Zone etc.
Yellow and red cards are both used in Rushball but more over the black card was using in case of hard type of foul. Black card means “out from field to the end of time”.
Rushball has specific type of point system: loose is one point, draw is three points and win is five one. The points are giving on every time, so a team can takes ten points as maximum on two times game.

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