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Football's one of the world's most loved sports, but in Finland, they've invented a slightly different game.

Swamp football is played in a swamp, a wet and muddy piece of land.

Jussi Kiiskila organises the Swamp Soccer World Cup.

While it can really improve your fitness, swamp football's more challenging, so the playing time's reduced to two 10 minute halves.

On the pitch, there are only six players per team, a number which includes the goalkeeper.

However, the game's played according to the same rules.

Siri's a member of the Finnish team Lahen Stolit, and she describes some of the difficulties, as well as the aim.

In the World Championships, there's a wide variety of groups.

Jugendclub Lindenau - a German club - were new to the competition, but they left with a gold in the men's professional group.

They thoroughly enjoyed the range of pitches.

Each pitch is marked with white lines and those people who've come to watch can stay out of the mud by standing on wooden paths.

In the recent World Championships, the contest attracted 140 teams - for both sexes - and it's hoped that by 2024, numbers will return to pre-Coronavirus levels, with between 200 and 250 teams.

With 300 swamp football teams around the world, perhaps this muddy game also sounds exciting to you?

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