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Your answer pertained to digging up turf and travelling shabbath and maybe other restrictions. But really my question is whether soccer is permitted not on a professional level on a terrain that is rather more solid and without having to travel , I understand that you are submitting boundaries to avoid touching the core, but is soccer permitted in concordance with Taโ€™anoug Shabbat granted that you avoid transgressing halakhot that are not necessarely tied to playing soccer ( or basketball for instance).
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Playing sports seriously on shabbat - getting sweated up, for example - is inappropriate behavior for shabbat and therefore forbidden as โ€œmaase cholโ€ (see Shmirat Shabbat Kโ€™Hilchata 16,1). Not included in the prohibition would be throwing a basketball into a household hoop, or a friendly game of catch or ping-pong, or kicking a non-regulation soccer ball (that is not inflated and then tied see Shmirat Shabbat Kโ€™Hilchata 16,8) back and forth with a friend on an asphalt surface.There are rabbinic opinions that would feel that even this behavior is permissible only for children.
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