Basque pelota In Valencia, Valencian pilota is considered the national sport; it is also played in Belgium, North of Italy, Mexico, and Argentina. Since its creation, the International Federation of Basque Pelota has standardised the different varieties into four modalities and fourteen disciplines, with fixed ball weights, rules and court sizes. The four modalities— wall, wall, wall and "trinquete"—admit fourteen disciplines, depending the use of bare hand, leather ball, rubber ball, "paleta" (pelota paleta), racket (frontennis) and "xare". Two of the fourteen disciplines are played by both men and women (frontenis and rubber pelota in trinquete); the other twelve are played only
Spanish Federation of Sports for the Blind first half of 2000, FEDC received a grant from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport () for 5,000,000 ₧ and an additional 804.000 ₧ specifically set aside for the a sports talent screening program. In the second half of 2001, they received a grant from Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport for 3,150,000 ₧. In the fourth quarter of 2011, they received funding from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. Based in Madrid, FEDC is one of five disability sport organizations that belongs to the Spanish Paralympic Committee. They have a goal of hosting and governing disability sport