Basque pelota be played so it rebounds directly off the front wall onto the playing floor or onto the long side wall first. The opposing team may either play the ball immediately after rebounding from the front wall or side wall without rebounding from the playing floor or after having rebounded from the playing floor once. A team scores by: A team may also score by the opposing team: The ball used to play pelota is called "pilota" in Basque, "pelote" in French, and "pelota" in Spanish. There are different sizes, different weights and different materials for each discipline that is played.
Sport in Spain 2011 EuroBasket, Fernando Alonso's back-to-back (2005 and 2006 Formula One championships), the football team bringing home Euro 2008, the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012 trophies and Óscar Pereiro, Alberto Contador and Carlos Sastre's 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 triumphs in Tour de France more recently, several papers have looked beyond Sastre's win to claim that Spain is enjoying something of a sporting "Golden Age"-similar to the Spanish 17th century achievements in painting and literature. Football is the most popular sport in Spain. La Liga or "Primera División" (The Spanish League) is considered to be one of the world's best