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Reading the comments, I'm honestly super surprised that so many people haven't heard of handball even once. That's mental to me, and I'm not a sports guy
Kinda like discovering tennis is a thing
Comment by ahuramazdobbs19 at 10/03/2025 at 15:34 UTC
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Weirdly, I have heard of handball.
But apparently in the States, "handball" is a completely different game which is like racquetball or squash but without the racquets.
Whereas this appears to be a hybrid of basketball and soccer.
Comment by sunnycoast37 at 10/03/2025 at 13:26 UTC
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Completely different to the handball I played as a kid. It was a heap of squares drawn on the ground in a row, usually two abreast or in a hopscotch pattern, as many as you wanted and played with a tennis ball or rubber ball, using your hand to hit the ball into an opponent's square
Comment by Stillcant at 10/03/2025 at 13:24 UTC
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You mean pickleball?
Comment by cheetuzz at 10/03/2025 at 15:28 UTC
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Kinda like discovering tennis is a thing
you can’t compare the popularity of handball to tennis. Maybe more like discovering that field hockey is a thing.