TSGs
Beto’s Game
(Portugal)
Beto’s Game is a traditional game that is part of the history of the Central region of Portugal. It is unique in the country and was found in Serpins, in Lousã.
It’s a team game, one team against another, but with a singularity that can’t be found either in other games or in sport: one of the teams is made up exclusively of forwards and the other team is made up exclusively of defenders.
Bèlit Game
(Spain)
Bèlit, also known as Bòlit in Spain, Lippa in Italy, Pandolo in Poland, or Billarda in Portugal, among many other names in different countries around the world, is a traditional sporting game of cooperation-opposition in which two teams compete for a common goal: to score more points than the opposing team at the end of the game. This game is characterized as an asymmetrical duel, where one team assumes the role of forward and the other of defender.
Pljočkanje
(Croatia)
Pljočkanje is considered to be one of man’s oldest forms of competition or sports. The oldest archaeological findings date back to 5000 years ago. Some authors claim that a game similar to pljočkanje was described in Homer’s Iliad, held like a competition of Greek soldiers during the siege of Troy.