Basque pelota Cesta Punta professional players in France and Spain. In the United States pelota is mainly a professional sport, strongly tied to betting and the pari-mutuel system. In professional environment is common to play special plays called "quinielas" well adapted to the betting needs. In 1994, the production company Asegarce started painting the courts green so that the ball would be more visible on TV. Professional games are open to betting on the results, as usual in most traditional Basque competitions. In the USA and Macau it is mainly this aspect of the competition that has given it some popularity. Besides
Spanish Sports Federation for Persons with Physical Disabilities which led to changes in how sport was organized inside Spain. Eventually, changes in response to the law assisted in creating a landscape that resulted in the creation of several national Spanish disability sport organizations, removing responsibility of governance for other disability types from this organization. The organization was originally named Spanish Sports Federation for the Physically Disabled (). They officially changed to their current name in November 2007. In September 1992, the first Paralympic Congress was held in Barcelona. ONCE, FEDMF and ASPACE were the three Spanish disability sport organizations key to hosting the event, which was attended by