It’s an emerging, hip beach sport that fuses volleyball and soccer. That means dives, dunks and spikes with the feet, chest, head, thighs and shoulders — anything but the hands. And it’s a natural fit ...

Amid the sun, sand and sexy bodies on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach, a Brazilian named Octavio de Moraes invented footvolley. The sport — beach volleyball without using your hands but employing ...

Footvolley is a sport played like it sounds: A volleyball is kicked around like soccer with no hands. The U.S. and other countries are sending teams to Brazil, but it's not an Olympic sport yet. The ...

Walk by one of Tel Aviv’s numerous beaches on any given weekend and you’re likely to find it filled with young athletes playing what appears at some moments to be volleyball, and at others, soccer.

Footvolley – a mix of beach volleyball and soccer – was born on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro in the 1960s as a way around laws banning soccer on the sand. The Yaaz Footvolley Tel Aviv-Jaffa League is ...

A player representing Holland executes a footvolley "shark attack" against the Brazilian team at a tournament last month in Deerfield Beach. This story first aired on December 14, 2015. These days, if ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Rio de Janeiro’s main beaches bustle with commotion on sunny weekends. But activity ground to a near standstill on one stretch of sand. People held up their phones to record athletic ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Rio de Janeiro’s main beaches bustle with commotion on sunny weekends. But activity ground to a near standstill on one stretch of sand. People held up their phones to record athletic ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro’s main beaches bustle with commotion on sunny weekends. But activity ground to a near standstill on one stretch of sand. People held up their phones to record ...

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