Sport
Further information: Sport in AfghanistanBuzkashi is a traditional horse riding sport of the region and is very popular in this province. Other sports played is football, while cricket is growing in popularity in recent years. The Province is represented in domestic competitions by the Balkh Province cricket team.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)