Football
See also: Papua New Guinea national football teamAssociation football is also played in Papua New Guinea. The governing body for the sport in the country is the Papua New Guinea Football Association which was established in 1962. Approximately 200,000 people play Football in Papua New Guinea and it is considered to be the second most popular sport for men and the single most popular sport for females.
The national team are currently 193 in the FIFA World rankings. The country's highest ranking was 160th in June 2004. Former Australian coach Frank Farina is the current coach of the national side.
Formed in 2006, the PNG Telikom National Soccer League is the top division of Football in Papua New Guinea. The league comprises 8 semi-professional teams from across the country.
Hekari United from Port Moresby are the most successful club having won the domestic league every year since its inception and the 2010 OFC Champions League. Hekari United were also the first club from the South pacific to qualify for the FIFA Club World Cup
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Famous quotes containing the word football:
“...I’m not money hungry.... People who are rich want to be richer, but what’s the difference? You can’t take it with you. The toys get different, that’s all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It’s all relative.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“You can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.”
—Frank Zappa (1940–1993)
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)