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Coccoball

If you've never heard of Coccoball, that's because this is a recent Croatian invention, becoming more and more popular especially along the coast during the summer.

Coccoball has been invented three years ago in south-Croatian town of Ploce, although its author says that the idea can be traced in the jungle forest of West Africa. This sport combines basketball, rugby, football, handball, wrestling and other sports. Motto of Coccoball is: "Phonies play volley-ball in sand and the real man play Coccoball".

Coccoball is the only sport where man are judged by women referees, and vice versa. An important rule also says that each important game or tournament has to be accompanied by some humanitarian activity.

Equipment: Coccoball is played during the summer in sand or in shallow water, on the playfield size 16×8 m. Each team has three players, but also there is a play version with five players in each team. They play barefoot and wear shirts with one girder.
Game lasts 3×10 minutes of active playing. The aim is to hit with hairy ball, two kilos of weight, to the small or to the big basket located on the palm trees within the play field. Hitting the small basket wins one cocco (point) and the bigger basket hit wins two.
All lines are forming the out line, meaning: there are no mine / your side. Out is played in a way that the player turns his back towards the playfield. Pushing a player is allowed, trimming, carrying the opponent around, grabbing by his clothes and all bodily parts except genital parts, face, hair and neck. Open kicks, pinching, strangling, hair-pulling are prohibited.

Directions: Contact address: "Coccoball", A.K. Miosica 6, 20340 Ploce, Croatia

Phone: 385 20 678 318, 385 91 25 24 77

Theme: Other

Website: http://www.coccoball.hr