Exposé Gaelic football

Gaelic Football

The Gaelic Athletic Association

Largest association of Gaelic sports in Ireland

Gaelic Football descends from an old form of football practiced in Ireland known as Caid

Teams

Gaelic Football field

-Put the ball in the opposite goal to increase your score. The team with the highest score wins. -Matches are 60 minutes long divided into two halves of 30 minutes. (Except the Senior National Chamionship games) -A match cannot end in a draw so we replay the match or we play a 20 minutes extension with 10 minutes halves.

Principal rules :

-you can kick the ball with your foot when it's out of your hands or on the ground -you can’t run with the ball more than 4 steps. If you want to keep the ball, you need to do a dribble or bouncing it on the ground to take another 4 steps. -you can catch the ball with your hands in the air. -to hand pass to a teammate, you need to slap the ball in an open palm with the other hand. -you can do shoulder-to-shoulder contact as long as the opponent has the possession of the ball. If no one has the ball, you can do that to the opponent who is nearest the ball. -when you shoot the ball with the hands or the foot in the lower part of the goal, it gives you 3 points, but over the crossbar and between the two posts , it gives you only 1 point.