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Video. Ecuadorian village women play their self-invented sport

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Women from the northern village of Turucu in Ecuador play handball dressed in traditional Anaco skirts.

Women from the northern village of Turucu in Ecuador play Anaco-skirted handball.

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Invented by women in the Indigenous Quichua community, where only men played a sport, the new women-only game lasts for two 25-minute halves.

The pitch is almost half the size of a traditional football pitch. You can't push opponents or grab their arms, and you can't kick the ball, which is always carried with both hands.

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