Alpine Football in Austria, Playing on Steep Mountain Slopes

VIVA – People in the Alps Mountain, Austria have an unusual habit of playing football. Football in this country is usually played on mountain slopes with very steep ground. People used to call it Alpine football.

Quoted from Odditycentral site on August 2, 2022, alpine football is a variation of the world's most popular competitive sport played on steep mountain slopes. No wonder, playing football on the slopes of a mountain with steep soil is very difficult for the players.

If you imagine about it, playing soccer on steep slopes is scary and impossible to do, but some people who love to play football in the Austrian Alps claim that it’s the best way to play soccer.

It is known, at first, they liked to play football on steep slopes, when they first did it when local people watched the 2014 world cup football.

At that time, they admitted that they were bored when watching a match on TV and had the idea to play soccer on the slopes of a mountain.

“We watched the game and found it very boring,” Franz Mair was one of the founders of Alpine Football.

Therefore, they finally decided to play football on the slopes of the mountain with steep ground. Even though it was quite difficult, the players admitted that they really enjoyed it.

Playing on steep ground requires greater effort, such as more energy being expended. In fact, the referees were also forced to spend extra energy when supervising the match.

People have to spend a lot of energy when playing Alpine football because they have to go up and down the steep mountain slopes. No wonder, the sport got so extreme there.