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Fifa Soccer Rules for Handball

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Owen H. L. Davies

The topic of handball is an often contentious area of the soccer rulebook, which seems to be involved in some form of controversial incident on an almost weekly basis. FIFA, the world soccer governing body, does not define the term handball in its rulebook.