Picigin
Sign in to savethumb|200px|Picigin player playing the ball forward at Bačvice beach in Split, Croatia Picigin () is traditional ball game from Split, Croatia that is played at the beach. It is an amateur sport played in shoals or other shallow water, usually consisting of cooperating players keeping a small ball aloft for as long as possible, with the game ending when the ball falls in the water.
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thumb|200px|Picigin player playing the ball forward at Bačvice beach in Split, Croatia Picigin () is traditional ball game from Split, Croatia that is played at the beach. It is an amateur sport played in shoals or other shallow water, usually consisting of cooperating players keeping a small ball aloft for as long as possible, with the game ending when the ball falls in the water.
==Origin== thumb|200x200px|A game of picigin with five players Picigin originated on the sandy beach of Bačvice in Split. It was first played in 1908 by a group of Croatian students returning from Prague who were finding it difficult to play the game of water polo in shallow water. Instead, they began playing a different game which would come to be known as picigin.