Traditional sports and games of Corsica

• In Corsica ,there are a lot of sports but they are not Corsican ,they are English …

• In 1911 ,the Piccioni challenge organized a competition of football between the Corsican and Azurean ,but nobody moved.

• And on 1947 ,football started developing .• Now ,there are more professionals football

clubs than in other French regions.• There is a great atmosphere on the stadiums.

Football

Pétanque

• The pétanque is a very popular sport in Corsica .

• Everybody can play, there are usually competitions and we can win money or it’s just for fun.

• Pétanque is popular because we can play at the beach, in front of a bar, and at home every where there is sand or an appropriate soil.

Water sports• In summer we can go do canyoning on the

rivers because it’s warm and that’s very good. Canyoning is a very popular sport because we jump in the water from a minimum of 2 meters high and a maximum of 11 meters .

• We can snorkel in the Mediterranean sea and do jet ski.

And to finish:Rally in Corsica

• The rally in Corsica is very popular because it’s a car race and that’s very awesome.

• That’s popular because when we can drive ,we can do rally and that gives a lot of sensations.

• Everybody go and see the rally and watch the people we know.

Corsican Traditional wrestling: E VINCE

A MORRA‘A Morra’ is a hand game, played by two players and dating back to the times of ancient Rome and Greece. Face to face, and with one hand only, the two players in turn announce a number, showing their fingers, whoever announces the sum of the two hands, wins (from 2 to 10) – if the correct number is not announced the game continues. Teams contribute to the winning of matches, and are composed of two or three people, and a match is won when there are two winning sets. Twenty five possibilities are concerned, where combinations enter. Depending on the region, there can be variations within the rules, so, harmonizing comes into account when championships take place – for there are championships too! to be noted however, this game is not known all over the island, oddly enough there are regions where it was never played.

A ScopaScopa means « broom" in Corsican.

The objective is to get a determined number of points, fixed before starting the game. There must be played as many hands as necessary until some of the players reaches that score.The dynamic of the game entails in taking cards from the table.

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