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{{wp|Association football}} (Austral Coscivian: ''kʊʉrat'', from Arabic ''kura'' "ball") is the second most popular sport in Sydona, in stark contrast to the rest of the Kiravian Federacy, where it receives little attention. The Sydona Islands are represented by their own national team in international competitions, separate from the notoriously irrelevant [[Kirav national soccer team|Kiravian national team]]. Although the Sydonan national team outperforms its Kiravian counterpart, it is still not particularly successful in tournament play. Soccer is generally played during the antipodean spring and summer in Sydona, coinciding with the fall/winter regular season for fieldball in Great Kirav, though it is evolving into a more year-round sport. The Austral Coscivian language has its own distinct vocabulary relating to soccer, much of which is locally coined or borrowed from Continental Ixnayan languages, unlike Kiravic Coscivian which has mostly borrowed or calqued its soccer terminology from Levantine or wider international usage. | {{wp|Association football}} (Austral Coscivian: ''kʊʉrat'', from Arabic ''kura'' "ball") is the second most popular sport in Sydona, in stark contrast to the rest of the Kiravian Federacy, where it receives little attention. The Sydona Islands are represented by their own national team in international competitions, separate from the notoriously irrelevant [[Kirav national soccer team|Kiravian national team]]. Although the Sydonan national team outperforms its Kiravian counterpart, it is still not particularly successful in tournament play. Soccer is generally played during the antipodean spring and summer in Sydona, coinciding with the fall/winter regular season for fieldball in Great Kirav, though it is evolving into a more year-round sport. The Austral Coscivian language has its own distinct vocabulary relating to soccer, much of which is locally coined or borrowed from Continental Ixnayan languages, unlike Kiravic Coscivian which has mostly borrowed or calqued its soccer terminology from Levantine or wider international usage. | ||
Sydona is home to the famed tennis champion [[Hinko Karthinović]]. | Sydona is home to the famed tennis champion [[Hinko Karthinović]]. Although tennis was not previously an especially popular sport in Sydona, Karthinović's success has stoked great interest in tennis, and Karthinović himself has helped to fund and develop youth tennis programmes to deepen Sydona's bench of elite players and promote love of the game. Hayk Melkonyan, a State Councillor, has said "it is a national imperative that we as a society dedicate ourselves to raising up the next Karthinović." | ||
==Economy== | ==Economy== | ||