landscapearchitecture:

““Many live under the belief that life is a fair playing field, that both pitch halves are just as big and the goal always has at least one cross. But ultimately the ball never bounces exactly where you want it to and the pitch is both bumpy and uneven.”

As one of those uncoordinated kids that was always picked last for team sports, I would have loved playing in a setting in which “the pitch’s irregularities neutralise the players’ skills. It is not at all certain that the best football player is also the greatest puckelball hero. If the ball doesn’t bounce where you think it will everybody has a chance.”

The unevenness of the field is intended to invite more imaginative ways to play, and to encourage play between girls and boys, old and young, skilled against unskilled, on equal footings, challenging the physical elitism inherent in most sporting activities.  But serious footballers find it useful, too…for practice in responding to unpredictability. “

Read more here: http://playgrounddesigns.blogspot.com/2011/01/puckelball-pitch-worlds-first-johan.html