Water polo or water polo as it is also known, is a sports discipline that is practiced in a pool, and where two teams fight. The objective of the game is to score the greatest number of goals in the goal of the rival team, during the duration of the game. Each team is made up of seven players (including the goalkeeper), each player wears a hat that can be white or blue, this will depend on whether the team is away (white) or home (blue), the goalkeeper's hat is always it is red. Water polo is characterized as a group sport, considered of extreme agility, speed, strength and strategic and mental intelligence. In addition to athletics and cycling, water polo is one of the most physically demanding sports.
To learn more about the origins of this sport, it is necessary to go back to the late 1800s. At that time when it began to be played, it was called polo and it was practiced in beer kegs.that emerged in a river, there the players mounted on these barrels and hit a ball made of leather, using a mallet to score a point, resembling the horse polo, then over time the players lost their fear of water, and they plunged into it, leaving the barrels behind to play directly with the ball, using their hands and feet. In 1877, the Scotsman William Wilson established in writing the first basic rules of the game that he called water polo. As time went by, the game developed little by little in Europe. In 1900 it was played for the first time in the Paris Olympics, and where the United Kingdom took the gold medal. In 1908 the international rules of water polo were created, thus continuing its spread throughout the world.
The basic rules that everyone should know if they want to practice this sport are the following: players can only take the ball with one hand. Players cannot sink the ball into the water when it is in play. It is forbidden to lean on the edges of the pool when playing, or touch the bottom of it. The referees must be out of the water and on the sides of the pool.
