Oină (sports)

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Oina on a Romanian postage stamp

Oină is a Romanian ball sport ( batball game ), distantly related to the German bat . It was first mentioned during the reign of Vlaicu Vodă in 1364. At that time it was widespread throughout the Principality of Wallachia as a game of shepherds. ("Oi" means "sheep"). In neighboring Transylvania or Transylvania (then part of Hungary ), Stefan Matyus from Cluj (Klausenburg) first described the game in 1762 in Diaetaetica . He recommended it for strengthening the body and mind.

It was also known under various other names in the areas that now belong to Romania: In Transylvania as matca , matca mare , hâlca or baciu (in Blaj ). In Sibiu one spoke of fuga , in Brașov of de-a lunga . In Bukovina it was also called odoliu .

For the first modern Olympic Games (1896) Romania offered to send two Oină teams, but the proposal was rejected by the International Olympic Committee "because Oină is not played in any other country". In 1899, the Minister of Education Spiru Haret decreed that Oină should be run in all schools in physical education and organized the first annual school competitions himself.

Today there are two national associations: the Federaţia Română de Oină in Bucharest ( Romania ) and another in Chișinău ( Moldova ).

Game operations in Romania

There are championships and cup competitions at the national level.

Today (2020) championships will be held in the following variants:

  • Open air ( aer liber ) with 11
  • Hall ( sala ) with 6 and
  • Beach ( plaja ) with 8 players,

each for

  • Senior male
  • Juniors I to III
  • Juniors I to III

There are also four cup competitions for male seniors:

  • Romanian Cup ( Cupa Romaniei )
  • "Königspokal", formerly Supercup ( Cupa Regelui )
  • Federation Cup ( Cupa Federatiei )
  • "Village Cup" ( Cupa Satelor )

Relation to baseball

Differences and similarities are:

  • same weight of the ball (around 140 grams),
  • longer and slimmer stick at the Oină,
  • a game lasts only 30 minutes at Oină,
  • elongated playing field at Oină (70 × 30 m, for youths 57 × 26 m),
  • Oină teams have 11 players; Baseball teams on the other hand 9.

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  • Marcus Rosenstein: The Ball Sports Lexicon. The ball and ball games of the world , Berlin (Weinmann), 1997. ISBN 3-87892-062-8
  • Website of the Romanian Oină Association (see below)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Competition statistics (male) , accessed on July 22, 2020
  2. ↑ Competition statistics (female) , accessed on July 22, 2020

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