Watch: The game of Albucia .. Disabled with disabilities in Iraq

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The game has attracted many of the most handicapped people in Iraq. It is easy and flexible and gives its players self-confidence, patience and patience, and gives them a sense of competitiveness.

The coach of the national football team, Omar Ali Talal, explains the game system that began in Iraq in 2005.

It is characterized by people with severe disabilities (spinal cord injury or quadriplegia), characterized by spirituality, enthusiasm, competition, accuracy, concentration and pleasure, and exercise on a rectangular playground measuring 12 meters and six meters wide, and contains within six areas of one meter, and need a flat surface to roll Balls.

Talal adds that the players of Al-Bouchia are classified into four categories:

- First: play with the help of coaches to make it easier for them to hold the balls.

- Second: for those with the ability to walk.

- Third: It is the most difficult among the categories, because most practitioners can not speak and movement, they play with the help of a tool called latch.

Fourth: It includes the best and strongest players in the competition, as they have a disability in the lower limbs only.

And Lucia has three systems that determine the number of players who will participate in the game, the system may be individual and this means the participation of one player from each team, or be a pair of two players from each team.

If the system of playing the difference is determined by three players for each of the two teams, and the players use balls colored (red and blue) by six balls of each color, divided by players depending on the type of systems.

As for the white ball called the "jack ball", which is the target or the interval that determines the players win, the closer they get the player got extra points.

There is an important role to measure distances in each throw to determine the appropriate target according to the time specified, the game is defined by four runs and each six-ball game, and control Albuchia a set of rules and legal texts, which is binding for all.

This game attracted many people in Mesopotamia, including Haneen Ali, 35, who, despite her difficult circumstances, insisted on entering the world of sport to prove that the handicap of the body should not defeat the will, and although she was unable to complete her studies because of her health status, Primary, she was brave enough to transform the sympathy and compassion into pride and pride, she said.

"Without the support and encouragement of my mother, I could not be a prominent athlete," she says. "The game gave me confidence and encouragement, and I was condemned for my family's success. They bore the society's inferiority and their rejection of women in the sports field, in addition to the deteriorating security conditions of the time "He said.

"I was the only player to join the athletics team and I ran many local tournaments by throwing the disc, the shot and the spear, and I led the competitions for five seasons in the F-2 category," adds Haneen, who started the field athletics exercise. F2 ").

Haneen was forced to leave the athletics after changing the category and away from the Iraqi team, which was the reason for her transformation to the Albucia, which tells her saying: "I consider the change category is a serious mistake in the field of medical classification, because this category includes players stronger than me, From the ranks of the national team, and in 2013 founded the game Albuchia and joined it because I found my life. "

Why Albucia?
Haneen and most of the handicapped resorted to the game of Puccia because it is a "game of competition" and more suitable for their health status in addition to other advantages, where it is easy and gives the players self-confidence, and allows them to participate in local and international tournaments.

Haneen Ali says her love for the game pushed her to create a small playground in her home to practice, and keen to acquire her skills from Arab and foreign players by watching them on YouTube.

"The number of women with disabilities has doubled in Babil province and abroad, which has encouraged others to join. The task of convincing their families was the most important thing for us," she said. "They realized that the sport would treat them and strengthen their self-confidence."

Hurdles
Haneen and her colleagues were not very easy. It was full of challenges and obstacles. The most important of these was the lack of suitable classrooms for training, especially the ground. The balls were solid and lacked the required specifications.

"We trained in the most difficult circumstances for three years, and during our participation in the Korea Championship we bought the right balls at our own expense. The floor of the halls only remained the same."

Henin dreams of becoming a coach to help the highly disabled to reach the highest levels and win world championships. She called on the international classification specialists to be careful about categorizing the players. The category is considered the player's identity and many of them have been wronged by the wrong classification.