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This is the Eirball.world Archive of Irish Lacrosse and World Sports. It is intended to be an All-Time Archive of Lacrosse in Ireland, Irish Lacrosse players abroad, as well as Lacrosse players who have immigrated to Ireland. The website includes other world sports such as Polo, Kabaddi, Sepak Takraw and Footbag from Asia, Ringball and Cestoball from the Global South, Ulama Pok-ta-Pok from Mexico and Guatemala, and the Native North American sport of Stickball. It is part of the Eirball.ie Irish, North American and World Sports Archives.
World Sports include the Asian Sports of Polo (Iran), Kabaddi (India), Sepak Takraw (South East Asia), Cuju (China), Kemari (Japan); Oceanian Sports of Polocrosse (Northern Territories, Australia), Marn Grook (Australian Aboriginal), Road Tennis (Barbados); African Sports of Ringball (South Africa) and Chandimu (Tanzania); South American Sports of Cestoball (Argentina) and Chaco South American Indian Hockey; Central American Sports of Ulama (Mexico – Aztec), Pok-ta-Pok (Guatemala, Belize and Honduras – Maya); North American Sports of Stickball (Oklahoma – Choctaw) and Ringette (Canada)
Lacrosse
After the Irish Lacrosse Union disappeared around the First World War, and the Irish Ladies Lacrosse Association from 1926-1970 had also disbanded, the third wave of Lacrosse in Ireland was the revival of Ireland Lacrosse in the early 21st Century, featuring Men’s Women’s and Box (Indoor Lacrosse).
Ireland Lacrosse
Ireland Lacrosse
Ireland Lacrosse (Men’s) Standings:
Irish Lacrosse League 2009-2016
Ireland Lacrosse | Men’s Newtownards Cup 2010-2017
Irish Lacrosse League (Results):
2018 2016 2015 2014 2012-13 2011-12 2010-11
Men’s Newtownards Cup (Results):
Women’s Lacrosse
Women’s Lacrosse was codified in Scotland, and is a 12-v-12 version of Lacrosse. There was an Irish Ladies Lacrosse Association in Ireland from the 1920s to 1970, that played in the Home Nations against England, Scotland and Wales, and also held a Schools Shield, with teams from Dublin & Belfast.It was resurrected in the early 2000s, with an International team, and the Irish women’s Lacrosse League.
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Women’s Lacrosse
Federation of International Lacrosse
FIL Women’s World Lacrosse Cup (Editions): 2017
European Lacrosse Federation
ELF Women’s European Lacrosse Championships (Editions): 2019
Home Nations Internationals
Irish Ladies Lacrosse Association Home Internationals 1930-1970
Ireland Lacrosse (Women’s)
Ireland Lacrosse Irish Women’s Lacrosse League 2014-2016
IL Irish Women’s Lacrosse League (Results): 2018
IL Women’s Newtownards Cup (Results): 2019-20 2018 2017
Irish Ladies Lacrosse Association (1922-1970)
Irish Ladies Lacrosse Association League (seasons): 1925
Irish Ladies Lacrosse Association School Shield (Roll of Honour):
Oceanian Sports
Oceanian sports included here are those of Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, Atlantic Islands, Indian Ocean, Caribbean and Arctic (Greenland and Canadian Arctic)
Road Tennis (Barbados)
Professional Road Tennis Association
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Polocrosse is a version of Lacrosse played on Horseback. It was invented in Northern Australia in the 1970s and the first World Cup was played in 2003.
Polo originated in Iran and was introduced to Britain and Ireland by the British Army after it was discovered there.
Kabaddi is an Indian Tag Game, popular throughout South Asia, whereby a team has to tag players on the opposing team and get back to their own base without being tagged in turn in the time it takes to hold their breath. In order to ensure the players are holding their breath they have to repeat “Kabaddi” over and over again.
Kabaddi (India – South Asia)
Kabaddi (Ireland)
Kabaddi Trinity Indian Society 2013
Pro Kabaddi (India)
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Sepak Takraw is a version of Volleyball played with every part of the body except the arms and is Native to Malaysia and Thailand, both of whom claim to have invented it and where the game is a National Sport. It is popular throughout South East and East Asia.
Sepak Takraw (Malaysia, Thailand – South East Asia)
Sepak Takraw (Ireland)
UCD Sepak Takraw Club 2014-Present
Sepak Takraw League (Malaysia)
Sepak Takraw League (Malaysia) 2015-2016
Sepak Takraw Games (East Indonesia)
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Kemari
Kemari is an ancient Keepie-Uppie Version of Football from Japan.
Hanetsuki
Hanetsuki is a traditional Japanese form of Badminton.
Japanese Sports
Hanetsuki (Japanese Badminton)
Kemari (Japanese Football)
Cuju is an ancient Keepie-Uppie Version of Football from China.
African Sports
African Sports include Ringball, a South African version of Basketball.
Chandimu is an African Street Football sport.
North American Sports
North American World Sports are Cowboy Polo, invented in New Mexico and now played only in Montana; and Ringette, a non-contact form of Ice Hockey popular in Canada, which utilises a straight stick which is used to guide a hoop around the ice and into a goal. Players use sponges on their feet rather than Ice Skates. Native North American Sports include Choctaw Stickball
Choctaw Stickball
Native American Sports include Stickball, a Choctaw game in Oklahoma.
Choctaw Stickball:
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar Playing Stickball Choctaw Nation 2018
Ringette
Canadian Ringette
Canadian Rigette
Central America
Ulama (as known to the Mexica (Aztecs) or Pok-ta-Pok (as known to the Maya) is a Native Mexican and Central American Sports using a rubber ball and the hips. It is played in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras. Road Tennis is the National Sport of Barbados.
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Ulama is the ancient sport of the Native Aztec (Mexica) and Maya of Central America (Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras). It is played with the hips, with two teams trying to propel the ball past the opposing team and has been played since 1400 BC. It is known as “Pok Ta Pok” to the Maya and “Ulama” to the Mexica.
The Juego de Pelota Mesoamerican Ulamaztli Championship is an Annual Regional Competition in Teotihuacan, Mexico City, the seat of the ancient religious / ritual centre, and where the most impressive ancient Ball Court is to be seen.
The Ulama Mesoamerican Ball Game Tournament is the Annual World Cup basically, bringing together teams from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras.
Mesoamerican Ulama Pok-ta-Pok
Ulama (Pok-ta-Pok)
Ulama Mesoamerican Ball Game Tournament (Ulama World Cup)
Ulama Pok-ta-Pok Mesoamerican Ball Game Tournament 2017-Present
Juego de Pelota Mesoamerican Ulamaztli Championship (Teotihuacan, Mexico)
Juego de Pelota Championship (seasons):
Ancient Mesoamerican Ball Game
South American Sports
South American Sports
Cestoball
Cestoball (Argentina)
Cestoball is a version of Basketball Native to Argentina. The Liga Nacional A is the Top Men’s Division in the country.
Confederacion Argentina de Cestoball Liga Nacional A 2014-2015
Chaco Indian Hockey
World Football
World Football on Eirball includes Football varieties played in East Asia, Aboriginal Australia, Africa and Old Europe.
This is the Eirball – World / Irish North American and World Sports Archive landing page for Calcio Storico Fiorentino, one of the earliest forms of organised football in the world, and which bears a striking resemblance in play to Gaelic Football, as well as a shared Atlantic heritage in a pre-Roman/pre-English, pre-Catholic Rennaisance or Revival. To view results of Calcio Fiorentino just click on the links in red/blue (purple) below the introduction.
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Introduction
Calcio Storico Fiorentino is a Renaissance Football game first played in Florence (Fiorentina), Tuscany in the 1400s by workers on breaks from work in the city. It was the first organised football in the world, rather than the Medieval mob football which preceeded it and where there were no rules or restrictions on numbers playing. It could be seen as part of the wider Renaissance whereby Tuscany’s ancient pre-Roman, pre-Catholic past was brought back.
[References: [4] Calcio Storico Fiorentino Sito Ufficiale (2020) CALCIO STORICO FIORENTINO [Internet] Available from: http://calciostoricofiorentino.it/?q=calcio-storico-fiorentino [Accessed 4 August 2020] and [5] Calcio Storico Fiorentino Sito Ufficiale (2020) Studies & Documentation [Internet] Available from: http://www.calciostoricofiorentino.it/?q=studi_e_documentazione [Accessed 4 August 2020]
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*The Tuscan language (Etruscan) is one which predates the Latin arrival in the Italian peninsula, and even though the letters and sounds are known there is no knowledge of the word meanings as no document translating Etruscan to Latin or Greek has ever been found. It does, however, sound similar to Basque, and therefore could be incuded in the Celtic sports section as part of the “Atlantic” or “Black Atlantic” family along with the Celtic languages, Basque and Berber (Tamashek) – half the words in the Gaelic language are of an Indo-European origin (Greek, Latin, Germanic, Slavic etc)and half of a North African Afro-Asiatic origin (Berber, Tuareg, Maltese, Hebrew, Arab etc).
Calcio Fiorentino
Calcio Fiorentino
A Medieval Football game, first organised in Renaissance Florence, Tuscany, Italy, that was first played by workers between breaks in work, and then organised matches beginning in 1530.
The earliest orgainsed Football matches anywhere in the world, as far as Eirball has discovered, although earlier reports in Ancient Europe, Greece, Rome, Italy and China mention similar games, though of what nature is hard to discern – they may just have been children’s catching games. [See articles on Medieval Football at: Medieval Celtic Sports for more information and references on this]
Calcio Storico Fiorentino
Calcio Storico Fiorentino Finals 1952-Present
Calcio Storico Fiorentino (Seasons):
Calcio Storico Fiorentino (Seasons):
Calcio Storico Fiorentino August Festival (Seasons):
[References: see Encyclopedia Brittanica sections on Indo-European, Celtic, and Afro-Asiatic languages: Encyclopedia Britannica | Britannica ]
Lelo Burti (Georgia)
Lelo Burti (Georgia)
Lelo Burti
Lelo Burti is the traditional Georgian form of Rugby.
Georgia: Lelo Burti
SLF Samegrelo Region Championship (seasons):
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Kemari
Kemari is an ancient Keepie-Uppie Version of Football from Japan.
Cuju is an ancient Keepie-Uppie Version of Football from China.
African Sports include Ringball, a South African version of Basketball.
Chandimu is an African Street Football sport.