Croatian World Games
2014
Croats from around
the world are invited to participate in the Croatian World Games, to be held
between 21 and 26 July, 2014 and will take place in Zagreb. These are the third
Croatian World Games. The previous ones took place in 2006 and 2010 and more
than 800 competitors participated from 40 countries around the world.
The organizer of this
important project is the Croatian World Congress, an umbrella association of Croatian
emigrants worldwide, which is an international, nonprofit, nonpartisan, member
of the United Nations, and which connects organizations and institutions from and
Croatia and Croats living abroad, creating better conditions for the interests
of Croats outside the fatherland.
The Games are held
under the auspices of the President of Croatia. The sponsors are the Croatian
Parliament, the State Office for Croatians outside the Republic of Croatia, the
City of Zagreb, the Croatian Heritage Foundation, the Tourist Board of Zagreb, individual
counties, cities and municipalities, the Croatian Olympic Committee, the
Croatian Football Association and many national sports federations.
The games are held in
the following summer sports: athletics, bowls, judo, karate, basketball,
football, indoor soccer (futsal), volleyball, beach volleyball, swimming,
rugby, handball, tennis, table tennis, taekwondo, waterpolo. The exact number
of disciplines will be determined according to the number of registered
participants. The
deadline for registration is May 1, 2014.
In addition to
participants from outside the fatherland, participants from Croatia and from Bosnia
and Herzegovina will also participate in the Games.
It is not necessary
that the participants be members of a sports organization, cultural or other
association, but you need to have Croatian ancestry. To participate in the
Games you must be over 16, and participation is done as part of a national
team.
Requests to
participate in the Games are made through the national organizing committees
that have been established in all participating countries, and veterans may
also participate, that is people over 35 years in all the above disciplines.
Contact directly the Games
website:
or via your national
coordinator or to the emails:
or call the following
numbers:
+385
(0) 1 6115 116
+385
(0) 1 7787 744
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