Sport
The football club SG Wattenscheid 09, which played at the highest German level for men, the Fußball-Bundesliga, from 1990 to 1994 and for women, the Women's Fußball-Bundesliga, in the 2007-08 season, is located in Wattenscheid.
The athletics club TV 01 Wattenscheid is also located in Wattenscheid.
The chess club SV Wattenscheid plays at the highest level in Germany, the Chess Bundesliga.
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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)
“Americans living in Latin American countries are often more snobbish than the Latins themselves. The typical American has quite a bit of money by Latin American standards, and he rarely sees a countryman who doesn’t. An American businessman who would think nothing of being seen in a sport shirt on the streets of his home town will be shocked and offended at a suggestion that he appear in Rio de Janeiro, for instance, in anything but a coat and tie.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)