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Volleyball is a game played between two teams of at most 6 players.
Each team has a court 9m square separated by a net at 2.43m for men, 2.24m for women.
The object of the game is to play the ball o... |
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The game is played on a volleyball court 18 meters long and 9 meters wide, divided into two 9 x 9 m halves by a one-meter wide net placed so that the top
of the net is 2.43 meters above the center o... |
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The volleyball is made of leather or synthetic leather and inflated with compressed air. According to FIVB regulations:
Its circumference is 65–67 cm and its weight is 260–280 g.
Its insi... |
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Each team consists of six players. To get play started, a team is chosen to serve by coin toss. A player from the serving team (the server) throws the ball
into the air and attempts to hit the ball ... |
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The ball lands out of the court, in the same court as the team that touched it last, under the net to the opposing team's court, or the ball touches
the net "antennas." The ball also may n... |
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If the ball passes outside the antennas on the first contact for the team, e.g. as the result of a bad pass or dig, a player is allowed to go after
the ball as long as he or she does not touch the... |
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When the ball contacts the floor within the court boundaries or an error is made, the team that did not make the error is awarded a point, whether they
served the ball or not. The team that won the ... |
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In 1998 the libero player was introduced internationally, the term meaning free in Italian is pronounced LEE-bah-ro (rather than lih-BEAR-oh); the NCAA
introduced the libero in 2002. The libero is a... |
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Category: Rules of the game
