Kristina M. Pantelić Babić Nenad Živanović Petar D. Pavlović Branislav Antala (Editors) HISTORY OF VOLLEYBALL IN EUROPE FIEP Europe – History of Physical Education and Sport University of Priština, Faculty of Section Sport and Physical Education in Association of Pedagogues of Leposavić Physical Education and Sport FIEP, Niš, Serbia Niš - Leposavić, 2018. FIEP book Edition: History of Physical Education and Sport Book 4 Book: HISTORY OF VOLLEYBALL IN EUROPE Editors: Kristina M. Pantelić Babić (BIH, Republic of Srpska) Nenad Živanović (Serbia) Petar D. Pavlović (BIH, Republic of Srpska) Branislav Antala (Slovakia) Publisher: University of Priština, Faculty of Sport and Physical Education in Leposavić For publisher: Veroljub Stanković Reviewers: Branislav Antala (Slovakia) Kristina M. Pantelić Babić (BIH, Republic of Srpska) Nenad Živanović (Serbia) Nicolae Ochiana (Romania) Petar D. Pavlović (BIH, Republic of Srpska) Sergii Ivashchenko (Ukraine) Slađana Mijatović (Serbia) Sobyanin Fedor Ivanovich (Russia) Veroljub Stanković (Serbia) Violeta Šiljak (Serbia) Zoran Milošević (Serbia) Prepress: Kristina M. Pantelić Babić Book-jacket: SIGRAF Kruševac Circulation: 200 Printed by: SIGRAF Kruševac ISBN 978-86-82329-75-6 NOTE: No part of this publication may be reproduced without the prior permission of the authors. Authors: Arūnas Emeljanovas (Lithuania) Barbaros Çelenk (Turkey) Bernat Buscà Safont-Tria (Spain) Bogacheva Elizaveta Alekseevna (Russia) Bruno Telles Matos (Brazil) Daiva Majauskienė (Lithuania) Daniela Dasheva (Bulgaria) Dejan Milenković (Serbia) Dimitar Mihailov (Bulgaria) František Seman (Slovakia) Gheorghe Balint (Romania) Gıyasettin Demirhan (Turkey) Govindasamy Balasekaran (Singapore) Ioan Turcu (Romania) Ivashchenko Sergii (Ukraine) José Fernandes Filho (Brazil) Kadutskaya Larisa Anatolievna (Russia) Khtey Taras Yurievich (Russia) Kristina M. Pantelić Babić (BIH, Republic of Srpska) Laércio Camilo Rodrigues (Brazil) Manolis Adamakis (Greece) Marc Llinàs Folch (Spain) Milena Momirović (Serbia) Nenad Živanović (Serbia) Ng Yew Cheo (Singapore) Peggy Boey (Singapore) Petar D. Pavlović (BIH, Republic of Srpska) Shipulin Gennady Yakovlevich (Russia) Sinem Hazır Aytar (Turkey) Sobyanin Fedor Ivanovich (Russia) Vladimir Kotev (Bulgaria) Zhilina Larisa Vasilyevna (Russia) TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD ............................................................................................. 9 BEGINNINGS AND DEVELOPMENT OF VOLLEYBALL IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA ............................ 11 BEGINNING AND DEVELOPMENT OF VOLLEYBALL IN BULGARIA ............................................................. 19 BEGINNINGS AND DEVELOPMENT OF VOLLEYBALL IN GREECE .................................................................. 30 BEGINNING OF VOLLEYBALL IN LITHUANIA ............................... 51 THE BEGINNINGS AND DEVELOPMENT OF VOLLEYBALL IN ROMANIA .............................................................. 64 THE HISTORY OF VOLLEYBALL IN RUSSIA .................................. 77 THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF VOLLEYBALL IN SERBIA AND ACHIEVING THE SPORT OLYMP .............................................................................. 88 BEGINNINGS AND DEVELOPMENT OF VOLLEYBALL IN SLOVAK REPUBLIC ........................................... 102 A BRIEF HISTORY OF VOLLEYBALL IN SPAIN: FROM ITS EARLY BEGINNINGS TO THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS ................................................................ 121 BEGINNINGS AND DEVELOPMENT OF VOLLEYBALL IN TURKEY ............................................................... 130 BEGINNING AND DEVELOPMENT OF VOLLEYBALL IN UKRAINE ............................................................. 150 BEGINNINGS AND DEVELOPMENT OF VOLLEYBALL IN BRAZIL ................................................................. 159 BEGINNINGS AND DEVELOPMENT OF VOLLEYBALL IN SINGAPORE ......................................................... 176 FOREWORD During one session of FIEP’s Section for history of Physical Education and Sports held in Niš (Serbia) in 2014 originated the idea and initiative for writing of collective monograph on History of Sports and Physical Education in European countries. By exchange of views with present colleagues, the idea was accepted. After consent of FIEP Europe’s President Mr. Branislav Antala (Slovakia) regarding this matter, during the following Section’s session the Commission for leading this idea into realization was formed. Elected members of this Commission were: Nenad Živanović, Petar D. Pavlović, Branislav Antala and Kristina M. Pantelić Babić. At the same session was decided to start with writing of collective monograph History of Physical Education. With the work of stated Commission members, National Delegates and Assistant of National Delegate of FIEP Europe, as also other associates from most European countries, edition about beginnings of development of Physical Education in European countries was successfully published in 2015. Due to the fact that first part of the project was very successful, the idea continues also in the following 2016 with same Commission and with edition about history of FOOTBALL IN EUROPE and in 2017 HISTORY OF BASKETBALL IN EUROPE. This year we continue the tradition and present you the HISTORY OF VOLLEYBALL IN EUROPE. Besides already becoming an annual FIEP’s edition, this monograph may also be essential for the development of relevant scientific branches across Europe. For this publication 13 manuscripts were received, with the interesting fact that we have 11 manuscripts from Europe and 2 “guest” manuscripts, one from Brazil and one from Singapore. They all successfully passed review process, and all papers are classified by reviewers and editors as scientific papers. Papers are sorted alphabetically, beginning with countries from Europe which participated in this edition, and with Brazilian and Singapore papers at the end. We thank all authors for being a part of this interesting project and hope to continue our cooperation in 2018. With kind regards, EDITORS 9 10 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA BEGINNINGS AND DEVELOPMENT OF VOLLEYBALL IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Kristina M. Pantelić Babić, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, FIEP Europe assistant national delegate Petar D. Pavlović, University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, FIEP Europe national delegate Introduction Originally called „mintonette“, the game of volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan,1 a graduate of the Springfield College of the YMCA, USA. Morgan designed this game to be a combination of basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball.2 In the years to follow this game became more and more popular accross the world. In Europe volleyball appeared in 1917’s, first in France and afterwards in Italy. US soldiers brought this game with them when they were stationed in France that year. Since 1919’s it started to play also in other European countries: Poland, Czechoslovakia, SSSR and others. International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) was founded in 1947 in Paris (France), where, among 14 pioneer countries who presented this formation, was also a representative of Yugoslavia.3 At the territory of Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians (Kingdom of SCS) (from 1929: Kingdom of Yugoslavia) volleyball started to play in Djevdjelija in 1918, before the establishment of a new country. It was played by French soldiers who were stationed there.4 People from Belgrade met volleyball in 1923 when the same year there was an edition of A. Brazdil “Gymnastic games for schools, societies and army” where inter alia was also a description of volleyball. This edition was 1 Стефан Илић & Слађана Мијатовић: Историја физичке културе (History of physical culture), D.T.A. TRADE, д.о.о. Београд, Belgrade, 2006. 2 Retrived from: https://www.athleticscholarships.net/history-of-volleyball.htm 3 Retrieved from: http://www.fivb.org/EN/FIVB/FIVB_History.asp 4 Enciklopedija fizičke kulture (Encyclopedia of Physical Culture), tom 1, A – O, Jugoslovenski leksikografski zavod, Zagreb, 1975, heading Odbojka (Volleyball), p. 663 – 675. 11 approved by the Ministry of Education of Kingdom of SCS as an auxiliary textbook for teachers in primary, secondary and specialized schools.5 In Ljubljana in 1926 was a Federal Sokol course for sokol frontmen, where, among other things, was decided to implement volleyball in school curricula. After that many sokol societies included volleyball in their public performances and competition program. In the same year Sokol union of Kingdom of SCS received an invitation for Sokol slet in Prague with various competitions, among which also volleyball. So far we are not familiar with the fact if they actually took part in volleyball competition in Prague. At sokol slet in Belgrade in 1930 there was also a Sokol Union volleyball competition. Next year in Maribor there was a volleyball competition for youth and senior competitors of Sokol Union. After the competition there was probably the first international volleyball match between teams of Sokol society Maribor and Czech sokol team from Kromeriz. Czech team won by 2:0. After WWII the volleyball started with even more intensity at the territory of newly formed country. Konjic Male and female sokols from Herzegovina and Bosnia, who participated at 8th All-Sokol Slet in July 1926 in Prague, had the opportunity to see volleyball game. In late 1927 Milenko Đokić started to come to Sokol society in Konjic to teach dancing to the sokol members.