Hockey is a sport in which two teams try to hit a solid, round ball or puck goal - the opponent's goal using the clubs. In each team there is one goalkeeper who defends the gate of his team

Hockey is considered by many to be one of the most beautiful, but at the same time very complex sports. Here you need qualities such as strength and quick reaction, agility and ability to instantly assess the situation and much more. An indispensable feature of the players is courage, because there is an ulterior motive: "The coward does not play hockey". And, however, everyone who decided to devote his life to this game is very brave. Perhaps this is what attracts fans from all over the world who are able to appreciate the complexity and technicality of this wonderful team game

Ice Hockey - played on ice with a small (180-gram) rubber disc, called a puck. The most popular of all types of hockey - usually the prefix "with the puck" is lowered. The homeland is Canada. It is also popular in Russia, Scandinavia, Czech Republic and other countries. Online hockey and roller-hockey (rink- hockey) - ice hockey analogues, played on roller skates.

Table hockey Field hockey - is played on a special synthetic coating (in the past on the grass) with a small solid ball. The most common form of hockey in the world - in English sources is often referred to simply as "hockey". The International Ice Hockey Federation includes 116 countries. The most popular in Holland, Germany, Spain, Belgium, England, Ireland, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Malaysia. Hockey with a ball (bendi or Russian hockey) - is played on ice with a small, solid ball. Most popular in Russia, Sweden, Finland and Norway.

Floorball - hockey in the hall, played with plastic sticks and a semi plastic ball. Vertical hockey and sleigh hockey are types of hockey for the disabled.

The most popular version about the origin of hockey is the birth of this sport in Montreal. Nevertheless, there is a mass of evidence that hockey was played back in the 16th century in Holland, at a time when America was just open, and there could not be hockey there In Canada, hockey was introduced in the 18th century, when the country was won by the United Kingdom from France, in the form of field hockey. Because of the cold Canadian winters, the game quickly evolved into ice hockey. The first hockey players attached cheese cutters to their shoes, and played hockey on frozen ponds. In the late 19th century, when hockey became quite popular with Canadians, the rules of the game were streamlined, the first competitions of the few teams that had been formed by that time were held.