Handball is a team sport played between two teams of seven players each, including a goalkeeper. The objective is to score more goals than the opponent by throwing the ball into their goal from outside a 6-meter area. It is played on a 40m by 20m indoor court with goals and lines marking boundaries. Spain has been successful in handball internationally, with the men's team winning the 2005 World Cup and the women's team winning bronze at the 2012 Olympics.

2. WHAT IS THE HANDBALL?
It's a sport played between two teams of seven
components where there are six players and a
goalkeeper. It is very popular, especially in
Europe, Germany, Spain, France...
Handball is for man and for women.

3. How to play this sport
The objective of the game is to score more goals
than the opponent in the opposing goal. To get a
goal, players must throw the ball from outside
the area of 6 m jumping, also from outside.
The ball must completely cross the goal line to be
valid.
The ball can be played with any part of the body from
the thigh upwards, with the exception of the
goalkeeper,
You can also use your legs and feet to defend your
goal, provided it is within its own area.
Outside the area, the goalkeeper is
a player more subject to the rules of the game.
A team can freely change their players
at all times, without limit, with the only condition
there are always only seven players in the
field, to make a player enter in the
playing field, it is necessary to first exit the other
and such a change is made by the zone
regulatory. Otherwise, the referee punishes the lack
and excludes the player who has come before
time, or in an improper place, for 2 minutes.

4. WHERE IS HANDBALL PLAYED?
In closed pavilions of 40 meters of long by 20 of
width with 2 arches, lines of 6 meters of areas
marked, half court, point of 7 metres for
penalties and line 9 meters for shots free.

5. Placement of players

6. Spanish handball men at the Olympic
games.
The greatest success in the history of the Spanish national team,
is to have been proclaimed World Champion at the 2005 World
Cup held in Tunisia. In the past 20 years, has also won three
bronze medals at Olympic Games (Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000
and Beijing 2008), three medals of silver and one bronze in the
European Championships, a gold at the Mediterranean Games
and the last achieved so far metal, bronze medal at the 2011
World Cup.
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7. Spanish handball women at the
Olympic games.
The greatest achievements of the Spanish national team,
have been the runners-up of Europe in the European 2008
held in Macedonia, the bronze medal at the 2011 World
Cup held in Brazil and the historic bronze medal in the
Olympic Games of London 2012.

8. The most goal scorer of the Spanish teams
are:
Juanín García(816) Cristina Gómez (897)

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