Goalball is a team sport designed for blind athletes. It was devised by an Austrian, Hanz Lorenzen, and a German, Sepp Reindle, in 1946 in an effort to help in the rehabilitation of visually impaired World War II veterans. The International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA - www.ibsa.es), responsible for fifteen sports for the blind and partially sighted in total, is the governing body for this sport.