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FIBA/SLO - Mini Basketball rules in Slovenian
GENEVA/LJUBLJANA (Basketball Rules) - On the free throw line ten seconds before the final buzzer, Berni Rodriguez makes the first but misses the second to seal the final score. It is 70-47 for Spain at FIBA's 2006 World Championship gold medal
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GENEVA/LJUBLJANA (Basketball Rules) - On the free throw line ten seconds before the final buzzer, Berni Rodriguez makes the first but misses the second to seal the final score.
It is 70-47 for Spain at FIBA's 2006 World Championship gold medal match. Ten seconds later Spanish players and fans in Saitama and around the globe burst out with a cry of joy.
Many of those who saw the game on television just "felt like basketball" afterwards and went to shoot some hoops to the court nearby. Among them, for sure, plenty of children, emulating the moves of Pau Gasol and other star basketball players. Basketball is for children, too.
However, basketball is played with a large ball and baskets are high above the ground - too high for most children.
Mini-Basketball reduces them both, thus making it easier for them to score. "My experience is that children enjoy the most when they get to score," says Janez Drvaric, Union Olimpija's Young teams sports director and former member of FIBA Europe's Youth commission.
FIBA emphasizes the need to make the game suitable for children.
This is also the main purpose of the Mini Basketball Rules published in 2005. The rulebook is now available in Slovene language as well. It can be downloaded on the "Free Download" section of FIBA.com or here.
The Mini-Basketball rulebook has been translated by Simon Licen, a researcher at the Faculty of Sports in Ljubljana and a basketball referee.
"The authors of the rulebook reduced the number of rules to a minimum. They selected the rules that children and, even more, their teachers and coaches need to know.
These basic rules allow them to play," says Drvaric, also former chairman of the Slovenian federation's Technical Committee.
"It is very good to have the Slovenian translation of the rulebook so we can make them available to a wider public.
"It is also very stimulating and positive that they are published on FIBA's website in Slovene as it shows that Mini-Basketball is important in Slovenia. This is a mean to show what is going on here.
GENEVA/LJUBLJANA (Basketball Rules) - On the free throw line ten seconds before the final buzzer, Berni Rodriguez makes the first but misses the second to seal the final score.
It is 70-47 for Spain at FIBA's 2006 World Championship gold medal match. Ten seconds later Spanish players and fans in Saitama and around the globe burst out with a cry of joy.
Many of those who saw the game on television just "felt like basketball" afterwards and went to shoot some hoops to the court nearby. Among them, for sure, plenty of children, emulating the moves of Pau Gasol and other star basketball players. Basketball is for children, too.
However, basketball is played with a large ball and baskets are high above the ground - too high for most children.
Mini-Basketball reduces them both, thus making it easier for them to score. "My experience is that children enjoy the most when they get to score," says Janez Drvaric, Union Olimpija's Young teams sports director and former member of FIBA Europe's Youth commission.
FIBA emphasizes the need to make the game suitable for children.
This is also the main purpose of the Mini Basketball Rules published in 2005. The rulebook is now available in Slovene language as well. It can be downloaded on the "Free Download" section of FIBA.com or here.
The Mini-Basketball rulebook has been translated by Simon Licen, a researcher at the Faculty of Sports in Ljubljana and a basketball referee.
"The authors of the rulebook reduced the number of rules to a minimum. They selected the rules that children and, even more, their teachers and coaches need to know.
These basic rules allow them to play," says Drvaric, also former chairman of the Slovenian federation's Technical Committee.
"It is very good to have the Slovenian translation of the rulebook so we can make them available to a wider public.
"It is also very stimulating and positive that they are published on FIBA's website in Slovene as it shows that Mini-Basketball is important in Slovenia. This is a mean to show what is going on here.