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Football 5-a-side, [1] more commonly known as Blind football or Blind football, is a variation of association football designed for players who are blind or visually impaired. It is currently a Paralympic sport , and the International Blind Sports Association (IBSA) also organizes a World Blind Football Championships .
This position is the most physically demanding, due to being forced into constant double or triple teams, and needing enough speed to collapse the interior of the offensive line. Sometimes, nose tackles are used in 4-3 defenses and are either positioned on the quarterbacks blind side, or directly in front of the center.
Paralympic football consists of adaptations of the sport of association football for athletes with a physical disability.These sports are typically played using International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) rules, with modifications to the field of play, equipment, numbers of players, and other rules as required to make the game suitable for the athletes.
The tournament was classified as a B1 event, meaning that it was for blind athletes. Athletes wore eyeshades to ensure that vision-impaired and totally blind athletes were level in ability. Goalkeepers could be sighted as long as they had not been registered with FIFA since 2003. Each team was also allowed to have a guide behind their opponents ...
Quinton Aaron played Michael Oher in The Blind Side.Photo credit: Getty. Michael Oher was homeless, adopted and then rose to football fame at Ole Miss. In 2009, he was drafted by the Baltimore ...
Jefinho has been regarded as one of the best blind football players worldwide. [6] He debuted for the Brazil national blind football team in 2006 at the age of fourteen. [7] He was selected to play at the Rio Parapan American Games and the Beijing Paralympic Games in 2007 and 2008 respectively where he won gold medals at both events. [8]
B3 is a medical based Paralympic classification for blind sport. Competitors in this classification have partial sight, with visual acuity from 2/60 to 6/60. It is used by a number of blind sports including para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing, blind cricket, blind golf, five-a-side football, goalball and judo.
"Blind side", a term in American and Canadian football for an area protected by a left or right tackle Blindside, a term used with similar meanings in rugby league and in rugby union Blindsided (disambiguation)