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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“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
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—David Storey (b. 1933)
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—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)