Soccer
Soccer is widely played in the South Central Pennsylvania region, and hosts a professional teams called the Harrisburg City Islanders. The City Islanders play at the Skyline Sports Complex, located on Harrisburg's City Island. Harrisburg also has an indoor soccer team called the Harrisburg Heat that plays their home games at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center and participates in the Professional Arena Soccer League.
The Lancaster Inferno is an amateur women's soccer team that is a member of the Women's Premier Soccer League. It is part of the Pennsylvania Classics organization, which is an umbrella for many soccer clubs in the Central Pennsylvania region.
Read more about this topic: Sports In South Central Pennsylvania
Famous quotes containing the word soccer:
“If we were doing this in the Falklands they would love it. It’s part of our heritage. The British have always been fighting wars.”
—British soccer fan. quoted in Independent (London, Dec. 23, 1988)
“Our first line of defense in raising children with values is modeling good behavior ourselves. This is critical. How will our kids learn tolerance for others if our hearts are filled with hate? Learn compassion if we are indifferent? Perceive academics as important if soccer practice is a higher priority than homework?”
—Fred G. Gosman (20th century)
“We want beans, not goals.”
—Mexican steelworkers’ banner at opening ceremony of 1986 World Cup soccer championship.