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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. | ||
{{wp|Basketball}} is a very popular sport in urban Sydona, where the decaying industrial landscape offers large areas of {{wp|hardscape}} suitable for low-cost conversion into basketball courts. Basketball had entered Sydona by the 1930s, would not be organised until the Sydona War wound down in the 1950s. A unified league system was established in 1988 after reïntegration. The Admiral's League, with 18 clubs, is the top tier of Sydona's professional men's basketball league pyramid, which operates by {{wp|promotion and relegation}}. The league is sponsored by [[Admiral Tobacco]]. | |||
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." | 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." | ||