Health & Fitness

Footvolley’s popularity taking off in South Florida

Holland’s Fernando Plentz, in orange, performs a “Shark Attack” against Brazil in the 2015 Deerfield Beach Final.
Holland’s Fernando Plentz, in orange, performs a “Shark Attack” against Brazil in the 2015 Deerfield Beach Final. Pro Footvolley Tour

These days, if you’re sitting on a South Florida beach and someone shouts, “Shark attack!” it’s probably got nothing to do with Jaws. Instead, it’s all about feet.

Namely, a sport called footvolley.

Footvolley is a blend of soccer and beach volleyball that was invented a half century ago in Brazil — a country obsessed with both soccer and the beach. It’s now catching on in the U.S. — especially in South Florida communities like Deerfield Beach, where a Pro Footvolley Tour international tournament was held last month.

Read the full story at WLRN.org.

If you go

The next Pro Footvolley Tour event in South Florida is the Pompano Beach Invitational, Jan. 15-17.

This story was originally published December 21, 2015 at 9:01 PM with the headline "Footvolley’s popularity taking off in South Florida."

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