Beach Koffball introduced to Trincomalee

Koffball Sri Lanka in its endeavor to popularise Koffball in Sri Lanka conducted a Beach Koffball training program at the Beach Park in Trincomalee recently.

With much enthusiasm among the youth to attend the program, the organizers were compelled to limit participation to fifty (50) in keeping with health guidelines.

Koffball was introduced to the youth of Trincomalee by a team headed by Pushpakumara Madurapperuma, General Secretary of Koffball Sri Lanka while former physiotherapist of the under 23 national Koffball team of Netherlands Jose Van Nunspeet who introduced the game to Sri Lanka in 2013 was the guest of honor.

Korfball is a mixed gender sport with similarities to netball and basketball, and is played by two teams of eight players comprising of four females and four males in each team. The objective is to throw the ball through a bottomless basket that is mounted on a 3.5 m (11.5 feet) high pole. It is a contactless and fast game, as unlike netball or basketball one has to shoot before being defended.

Korfball has been played for over 120 years around the world after a Dutch schoolteacher named Nico Broekhuysen came up with it in 1902. The International Korfball Federation (IKF) was founded in 1933 and Korfball is being played in over 70 countries now.