Sport
See also: Somalia at the OlympicsFootball is the most popular sport in Somalia. The Somalia national football team is currently ranked 187th in the world. There are hundreds of football clubs that compete at the local level.
Basketball is also growing in popularity. Somalia has a national basketball team.
Read more about this topic: Sport In Somalia
Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one’s appetite is not too keen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“For generations, a wide range of shooting in Northern Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which ... has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many other countries, the outstanding characteristic of the sport has been that it was not confined to any one class.”
—Northern Irish Tourist Board. quoted in New Statesman (London, Aug. 29, 1969)