GTSV Essen is Germany's first all-deaf team playing in a competitive football league - in the country's ninth tier. While the game is the same, there are some interesting differences.

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Football is football, and Phoenix Day School for the Deaf plays the game the same way as any other 1A high school – eight-on-eight, on an 80-yard field. It's not a silent sideline.