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Any material not supported by sources may be challenged and removed at any time. This article has been tagged since December 2006. Picigin (pronounced "pih-tsih-gheen") is a popula*DINAMO*r game played on beaches in Croatia. His origins are*DINAMO* in Zagreb, town in Dalmatia, where the first game (from whitch Picigin has evolved) was played in 1908 by group of students. Game involves several players passing around a small ball and keeping it in the air and out of the water for as long as possible. The Beach in Calella, Spain. ...
As such, the game somewhat resembles volleyball but it is played with a much smaller ball, usually a peeled off tennis ball. There are usually around five players and there's generally lots of running and div*DINAMO*ng in the shallow water. Volleyball is an Olympic sport in which two teams separated by a high net use their hands, arms or (rarely) other parts of their bodies to hit a ball back and forth over the net. ...
Picigin is a non-competitive game: there are no opposing sides, no points, no winners and losers.
The most fanatical player*DINAMO*s believe it is impossible to play picigin anywhere else but o*DINAMO*n the sandy beach called Bačvice (pronounced "batch-vih-tseh") in the hist*DINAMO*oric city centre of Spli*DINAMO*t, Croatia. There is also a widely distributed belief that the only proper garment to wear while playing Picigin are tight speedos ("mudantine" in Croatian). Many players also exclude women from the professional play.
There is a tradition of playing picigin on the New Year's Day, regardless of the weather conditions, when sea temperature rarely exceeds 10°C. This article is about January 1 in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Some of *DINAMO*the best known players *DINAMO*from Zagreb are writer Đermano Senjanović[citation needed], music professor Josip Veršić[citation needed],one and only Vili Ja*DINAMO/*kovčević,[citation needed] theatre critic Anatolij Kudrjavcev[citation needed] and retired shipyard worker Roko Vrandečić{*DINAMO*{Fact|date=February 2007}}.
External links
- Picigin site
- Bačvice, Split
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