The Best Field Hockey Player Ever

Field hockey is the oldest known ball-and-stick game and is believed to date from the earliest civilizations, although there is no conclusive evidence of exactly how and where the game began. The Arabs, Greeks, Persians, and Romans each had their own versions of hockey and traces of a stick game played by the Aztec Indians of South America have also been found. Hockey can also be identified with other early games, such as hurling and shinty and, during the Middle Ages, a French stick game called hoquet was played, and the English word may have derived from this. The sport is referred to as field hockey to distinguish it from the sport of ice hockey.

The first men's international match was held between England and Ireland on 16th March england's first women's international match against ireland in milltown, dublin on the 2nd march 18961895 at Richmond Hockey Club - England finished as 5-0 victors.

Hockey or "field hockey" as it is also known (to differentiate it from ice hockey) is an eleven a side game played on a pitch 100 yards by 60 yards (91.4 metres x 55 metres) with a ball which has a 23cm circumference. Each player has a stick with a rounded head to play the ball with the ultimate aim of scoring goals by putting the ball in the other team's goal. Sticks are about a metre long and weigh between 340g and 790g.

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