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Is eight-man soccer a thing?

• lostcolony 9y ago
  It can be played with smaller teams, sure. Just like basketball; even with just two of you you can still have a compelling reason to play. Football, not so much.
  • burntsushi 9y ago
    Sure it can. I grew up playing 3-man touch football. One QB, one receiver and one defender. We always called it "stars" and had an entire rule system for it, although I don't actually know whether it was an intensely local thing or whether it's something a lot of other people did too.
• portref 9y ago
  Five-a-side is very common, tons of five-a-side pitches in the UK with people playing in leagues or more casually.
• portref 9y ago
  Five-a-side is very common, tons of five-side pitches in the UK. edit: in the context of your comment, yeah there's no mistaking the headline is about american football.
• oneeyedpigeon 9y ago
  That's a fair point. However, unless I know that eight-man American football IS a thing, I'm still left slightly confused!