Remetea Chioarului, Maramureș County, August 2014. Elderly people tolling the bells in the belfry for the local church. Remetea Chioarului is in the center of one of the few remaining clusters
of villages in Transylvania where oina is still played.
Photo by SV
Voivodeni, Sălaj County, August 2014. Girls and boys playing oina together.
Photo by SV
Vorona, Botsani County, May 2014. Vorona Cup. Salcea school team at the local tournament. Photo by Bogdan Boghitoi. All rights reserved.
Turnu Rosu, Sibiu County, August 2014. Many of the oina players we have met are exceptional athletes.
Photo by Sorin Vidis
Salcea, Suceava County, May 2014. Mr. Roata, now retired, manufactures oina balls within the precincts of the school he was formerly the headmaster of, and where he still helps train the oina team.
Due to low volume, oina gear cannot be made economically on an industrial scale. The task of providing the players with the necessary equipment is left to a handful of people that still manufacture it artisanally. They have become the guardians of this rare craft.
Photo by Bogdan Boghitoi. All rights reserved.
Colibasi, Arges County, June 2015 Teenage girl warming up on the football field close to Dacia Automobile Factory during the Junior Girls Oina Championship. Photo by Sorin Vidis. All rights reserved.
Mioveni, Arges County, June 2015 Teammates embracing and expressing their joy for winning a game during the Junior Girls Oina Championship. Photo by Sorin Vidis. All rights reserved.
Sibiu, Sibiu County, November 2014. One thing about oina is that it can be played almost anywhere, even indoors. Photo by Sorin Vidis. All rights reserved.
Sibiu, November 2015. Girls in folk costumes waiting for their act to begin at the festivity organized in the evening,, after a competition, in the cafeteria of the boarding house where they were lodged. Photo by Bogdan Boghitoi. All rights reserved.
Coruia, August 2015. Old man cutting weeds that have invaded the local sports ground. Photo by Bogdan Boghitoi. All rights reserved.
