Soccette and Cuju, too

Soccette is a combination of soccer and basketball - it's like basketball because there's a basket. It's like soccer because you can't use your hands. It's like neither because there's only one goal/basket.

It looks different. And, most important, it looks like fun.

Soccette was reportedly invented in Africa.

Cuju is yet another soccer-like sport, featuring yet another innovation - a volleyball net with a hole in the middle. Cuju was invented in China. "..a.rcheologists discovered a book in China on Cuju entitled, "Twenty-Five Articles on Cuju" which was written during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 24). In this book, Cuju is explained as being played by two teams on a field with goals, and the matches were officiated by referees who followed prescribed rules. "

Both of these sports, new and old, are available from the same company, and both are genuine invitations to fun. As long as they remain "new" to the people who play them, they remain informal enough to be played just for the sake of playing. Once everything is figured out and all the rules are properly memorized and officials are appointed and equipment standardized and varsity teams created, perhaps they won't be as much fun. But, in the mean time, they are welcome additions to our continuously growing repertoire of alternatives to professional sports.

from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith