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The sport of football is extremely popular in the world. Touch football is one type of football.
Touch Football has become a very common game these days and has been gaining popularity in almost all parts of the world. It is vary popular in Australia and is another name given to the game of touch rugby which popularly known in other countries and is based on the league of rugby.
We must talk about all of those, which were invented in Australia and also about the rules of touch football and the touch football playbook.
Touch football is a kind of game that is usually called touch rugby around the world. But in Australia it is commonly referred to as the touch football.
The history of touch football in Australia is quite interesting. This popular sport started as a social or park game. Till date touch football plays an important role as a training technique for rugby league teams since the 1950s and 60s. Organized competitions developed in the country only when more and more people began to play Touch football. South Sydney Touch Football Association that has been formed recently had held the first official game of Touch in the year 1968. Since 1978 after the foundation of South Sydney Touch Football Association there have been many matches being played by the other associations that have come up.
Then the sport of touch football had got strongholds in rugby league of Queens land , New South Wales and some other places. It is now being played in the entire country. There are more than 270,000 touch football players in Australia who are registered. It is an extremely popular sport amongst the schoolchildren and around 500,000 are involved in the sport. Australia dominates in international competitions of the touch football.
The touch football field is just over half the size of a rugby league field. The onside is just 5meters in case of the touch football whereas that of a rugby league is of 10 meters. For every touch football player the touch football drills are a must. A drill is the exercise session before a match.