Traditional games Portugal

1. Portuguese Traditional
Games and Sports
By:
•Diogo Coelho, 8ºA
•Pedro Ribeiro, 8ºA

2. Playing in the past
In those days life was less stressful and television or
computer games were not the main entertainment.

3. Pião - Spinning Top
• Roll up the string around the top and throw it to the
floor.
• Try to knock over the other players' tops .
• The person whose top is spinning in the end is the
winner.

4. Cabra-Cega
The blind she-goat (Blindman’s buff)
Material: a blindfold
The game should be played on flat clean
ground, preferably with no holes on it.
The first player (the she-goat) is
blindfolded. The other players walk around
him/her, touch him/her while they say
“blind she-goat, blind she-goat”, all
avoiding being caught up but without going
far from the blind she-goat.
When one of the players is caught up the
she-goat is supposed to identify him/her
using her/his tact (his/her hands only).
In case he/she succeeds, the caught and
identified player is the next blind she-goat.

5. Cabra-Cega
The blind she-goat (Blindman’s buff)
In some children’s games there is a dialogue before the game
starts :
- Blind she-goat, where are you coming from?
- From Penela (name of a Portuguese town) .
- Do you bring cornbread with cinnamon (canela in Portuguese)?
- Yes.
- Will you give some?
- No!

6. Material:
Jogo da Macaca a small smooth stone; paint or chalk to draw a
course made out of squares.
Monkey Game
• The first child tosses the stone to square one. If the stone
(Hopscotch) touches the line or lands out of the square, the child loses
his/her turn .
• If the stone falls inside the right square, the child will hop
from square to square, skipping the square where the
stone is, standing on one foot, except at squares 3,4 and
6,7, where he/she will place a foot on each square.
• On the reverse trip he/she picks up the stone (standing on
one or two feet, depending on the squares he/she’s at).
• If the child succeeds, he/she can go on tossing his/her
stone to square number two, repeating the same pattern.
• Whenever a child fails, it’s another child’s turn.
• The winner is the one who first reaches “house” number
8, tossing his/her stone and doing all the course according
to the rules.

7. Tug of War
• Two or more players can play it.
• Only a long strong rope is required .
• The purpose of a team is to drag the other team
until their first player crosses the borderline.

8. Jogo do Sapo - Toad Game
• Each player has to toss and insert a disc or
bean bag into one or more of the holes , or in
the toad’s mouth.
• The person who scores the most points wins.

9. Malha game
• Very popular recreational game in the country.
• The aim of the game is to knock down/get as
close as possible to a pin or a marker using a disk
of metal (called “malha”).

10. Three-legged race
• It involves two participants attempting to
complete a short sprint with the left leg of one
runner strapped to the right leg of another
runner. The aim is to run together without
falling over, and beat the other contestants to
the finish line.

11. Most Popular Sports

12. Football
The first place where football was played in Portugal was in Camacha,
Madeira Island, in 1875.
The first game in continental Portugal was held in January 1889, on the site of
the bullring of Campo Pequeno in Lisbon, today. The match placed Portugal
against England, and ended with the victory of the Portuguese team 2-1.
Sport Lisboa Benfica is the club with more members worldwide, according to
the Guiness book of records, which shows the interest that this sport awakens
in Portugal.
Eusébio (the black panther) -
Benfica's and Portugal's most
renowned player, considered one
of the best players of all- time.

13. Athletics the one that has given our
Athletics is the most prestigious sport in Portugal. It is also
country more international titles, either individual or collective.
The first official athletics competition in Portugal took place on June 26, 1910, and was
entitled "National Olympics."
The track and field athletes better known in Portugal are Rosa Mota, Carla Sacramento,
and Elsa Amaral. Nelson Évora is the current triple jump olympic champion.
Rosa Mota, former marathon Nelson Évora - current
Carla Sacramento – former
runner, considered one of the triple jump olympic
world champion. A track was
best runners of the 20th champion.
named in her honour in Seixal.
century.

14. Hockey on skates
In Portugal, it is believed that hockey had its origin in a game called “choca”. This
game was played by five players armed with a stick (which could, or not be curved
at the tip), and a small wooden ball (or a pine cone) called “choca”.
The first historical account brings us to 1873, when D. Maria Pia (queen of
Portugal) presented the first skates in Mafra. For a long time hockey was linked to
the aristocracy.
Portugal is the country with the highest number of world titles, followed by Spain.

15. Canoeing
Canoeing has been gaining more and more supporters in our country.
In Portugal, canoeing began in the 1930s.
The enthusiasm for this sport originated from the regular descent of the River Douro made
by Spanish teams . Thereafter canoeing spread throughout the country.
The Portuguese Canoeing Federation (FCP) was founded on March 10, 1979.
Our country has great geographical and climatic conditions for this activity.