Why do americans not play handball ?

Here handball is a different game

The handball that you show is similar to soccer or water polo. What we call handball has a small hard rubber ball. The ball is maybe 2 1/2 inches in diameter. The participants wear gloves and use both hands to play. It can be played by hitting the ball off of one wall or 4 walls. It is usually played with 2 people competing. It can be played with 4 people... teams of 2 against 2. Google or search it and I am sure that it will come up...So on my phone, I looked this up. Look under American handball...which it refers to as "handball"...aka "wallball". Use wikipedia. So to answer your question...we don't play handball as you know it in Europe. Why? I really don't know, for sure. I know that women play field hockey. A similar game for us is Lacrosse, a game invented by the American Indians or "native Americans"...it uses a ball that is very hard and is slightly larger in size than an American handball. The players use a stick with a net for catching and throwing the ball to each other. The players can run with the ball, throw it to another player or shoot at the net, goal...where a goalie is playing. Helmets are worn and chest protectors. It is played by boys and girls/ men and women...it has 2 goals...1 at each end which resemble the goals that you showed for handball. The game is divided into 2 periods. The team with the most points after time expires...wins. So our handball, (wallball) is played indoors on a court... usually an enclosed room. Lacrosse is played outdoors on a field.

That looks like fun! I’m about 40 years too late to try it though lol

We'd probably call it arm soccer or something.

I’ve seen it played before and would have loved to try it back in the day. We played a version of it in gym class using the padding behind the basketball backboards as goals. It was more of a free for all though.

Americans generally have a prejudice against sports that weren't developed here. And here handball refers to a game like racquetball, but with hands instead of racquets.

Because it's "a little brutal" there's not enough space on the court for all the protective equipment they'd need to wear.

I've been trying to figure that out. I actually thing within 8-12 years the USA could have a great handball team. Mix some baseball and basketball players together. I think we have athletes who would need very little time to pick it up given backgrounds in other sports. I think if a European coach came over and sold some AA baseball players on going to the olympics they could really be something.

Looks like soccer with hands. Probably because we play baseball, football, ice hockey, and lacrosse.

So, soccer but allowed to use hands

Because yanks marry their cousins 😂

because its a sport for girls