Bando (sport) Bando (sport) Bando is a team sport – related to hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy – which was first recorded in Wales in the eighteenth century. The game is played on a large level field between teams of up to thirty players each of them equipped with a "bando": a curve-ended stick resembling that used in field hockey. Although no formal rules are known, the objective of the game was to strike a ball between two marks which served as goals at either end of the pitch. Popular in Glamorgan in the nineteenth century, the sport all but vanished by
Field handball at 14 metres from the goal. The goal is 7.32 meters wide and 2.44 meters high. The game is played with the same ball as the indoor type by two teams of 11 players (plus 2 reserves) and two periods of 30 minutes each. Indoor handball gradually grew in popularity to replace field handball and the last field handball World Championship was played in 1966. The grandfather of the singer Andy Bell, Eugenius Bell, was one of England's most famous field handball players. Field handball Field handball (also known as outdoor handball or grass handball) was a form of what