Floorball
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Floorball is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper in each team. It is played indoors with 96–115.5 cm-long (37.8–45.5 in) sticks and a 70–72 mm-diameter (2.76–2.83 in) plastic ball with holes. Matches are played in three twenty-minute periods. The sport of bandy also played a role in the game's development.
A floorball game between the Czech Republic and Finland
Mika Kohonen, a Finnish floorball player and a four-time world champion in the sport, was voted best floorball player in the world in 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.
Floorball stick blade that is held on the left side
Bandy
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Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.
Swedish Championship, Women's Final, 2015
Detail from Brueghel's 1565 Jagers in de Sneeuw, showing bandy being played informally before it became an organized sport
Kazakh stamp featuring bandy (допты хоккей dopty khokkey, "ball hockey")
Bandy team preparing to defend their goal against a corner stroke in 2012.