Socca
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{{notability|date=May 2024}}
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{{Short description|Variant of association football}}
{{about|a sports game|the chickpea pancake|Farinata}}
{{Infobox sport
| union = International Socca Federation
| name = Socca
| image =
| imagesize =
| caption = Socca
| contact = Yes
| team = 6 per side (including goalkeeper)
| mgender = No
| category = Team sport, Football
| olympic = No
| paralympic = No
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Socca is a team sports variant of football, best known in 6-a-side 40-minute format.{{Cite web|url=https://soccafederation.com/socca-rules/|title=Socca Rules – Socca}}{{Cite news |last=Keogh |first=Frank |date=9 October 2019 |title=Sun, sea and six-a-side - football's other world cup |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/49338007 |access-date=2024-05-18 |work=BBC Sport |language=en-GB}}
The International Socca Federation (ISF) is a governing body for socca.{{Cite web|url=https://soccafederation.com/news/|title=News – Socca}}
History and rules
Socca mainly differs from minifootball in larger size of the field, game durations, penalty kick style, focusing of semi and fully professional, in addition to futsal and retired football players.{{Cite web|url=https://sport.ua/news/561693-chto-takoe-socca|title=Что такое Socca|website=СПОРТ.UA}}
Matches are played in 2 halves of 20 (sometimes 25) minutes each. Teams consist of a goalkeeper and five outfield players.https://www.soccamexico.com/https://www.soccamexico.com/ireland-championships-latest/https://dailysports.net/news/ukraine-lost-to-kazakhstan-in-the-world-cup-final/
Matches are played on both natural and syinthetc turf. The size of the field is 30x50 m, the size of the goal is 2x5 m.https://eng.obozrevatel.com/section-sport/news-for-the-first-time-in-history-ukraine-became-the-vice-world-champion-in-socca-12-06-2023.htmlhttps://www.essen2023.com/soccaworldcup/https://www.soccatours.com/
Competitions
File:Socca EuroCup 2024 - Sebia - Georgia.jpg (Moldova), Serbia - Georgia]]
See also
References
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{{Socca World Cup}}
{{Socca EuroCup}}
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