Sports
Football is the most popular sports in Nepal. and was first played during the Rana dynasty in 1921. Despite the popularity and years of playing the game, Football in Nepal has still a long way to go.
Also, Cricket has been gaining popularity since the last decade as it continues to progress in the world scene. Cricket in Nepal is doing better than football as Nepal cricket team recently won 2012 ICC World Cricket League Division Four and will be playing in 2013 ICC World Cricket League Division Three.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)