Blind football is one of the most popular sports in the Paralympics

One of the sports included in the 12-day Paralymics this summer is blind football. That’s soccer, played by athletes with visual impairment or blindness. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry joins players at a training session in Paris.

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