%0 Journal Article %T Goalball: uma modalidade desportiva de competi£¿£¿o %A Amorim %A Minerva %A Corredeira %A Rui %A Sampaio %A Eliana %A Bastos %A Tania %A Botelho %A Manuel %J Revista Portuguesa de Ci¨ºncias do Desporto %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X the challenge of overcoming difficulties, namely through sport for disabled people, is always a way of bringing up new proposals concerning teaching and researching having in mind this kind of population. therefore, and taking in consideration that a significant amount of information in nowadays£¿ society runs through sight, we find of major importance to approach such a sport as goalball, as has been scarcely researched and also due to its increasing development around several countries. hence, it is our aim to accomplish a research about goalball, not only because is a para olympic sport but also because contains certain features of collective sporting games (csg) concerning technical and tactical particularities and offensive/defensive systems. a sport should be known within its several structural features, namely the strategies which can be adopted by blind and visually impaired when practicing. %K goalball %K visually impaired %K defensive and ofensive actions. %U http://www.scielo.gpeari.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1645-05232010000100011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en