Editorial: Traditional Sporting Games and Play

This is the first time that different research groups and researchers from different countries (Argentina, Brazil, France, Indonesia, Poland, Portugal, Russia, and Spain) and continents (America, Asia, and Europe) have shared a scientific challenge: to show through scientific evidence that traditional sporting games (TSGs) are worthy objects of study. The 24 texts that form part of this work show the polyhedral nature of TSGs from different domains of knowledge. Shared relationships, cultural meanings, emotions, and intelligent learning are different dimensions of the same phenomenon: the traditional sporting game. Frontiers in Psychology recognizes this multimodal nature of TSGs by integrating the articles in this book into the following sections: Movement Science and Sport Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Educational Psychology, Cultural Psychology, and Educational Psychology.”  …. We hope that our colleagues in the Anglosphere will join us in the knowledge and application of the fundamentals of this scientific discipline, as has already been done in Africa (e.g., Algeria, Congo, Guinea, Mali, Morocco, and Tunisia), America (e.g., Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, and United States), Asia (e.g., South Korea), and Europe (e.g., France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland).”