New league LIGA.i launched to lift blind soccer in Japan

New blind soccer league LIGA.i kicked off on Monday as the Japan Blind Football Association looks to raise the sport's competitiveness and popularity in the country on the back of last summer's Tokyo Paralympics.There are 30-plus clubs across the country but with varying levels, and the newly founded league brought together four top teams who vie for the inaugural title in a round-robin.Players were introduced on the big screen at Shizuoka Prefecture's Hamamatsu Arena as Papelecial Shinagawa and Buen Cambio Yokohama lifted the crowd in the curtain-raiser."I'm happy a historic league was for…READ FULL ARTICLE