Intracity Sporting Rivalry in Valēka: Difference between revisions

'''[[Valēka]]''', the most populous city of the [[Kiravian Federacy]], is home to two teams that compete in the Federated Fieldball League, the highest level league for Kiravian-rules gridiron football (commonly called "fieldball"): The Valēka Metropolitans and the Valēka Emperors. As in any city hosting multiple professional sports teams in the same league, the sporting allegiances of Valēka residents are split between the two teams. However, in Valēka, rivalry between the two teams and their respective fanbases, termed the "Blues" (''Ávrixtya'', Emperors fans) and "Greens" (''Kérmixtya'', Metropolitans fans) after the colours of each team's uniforms, has developed into a unique and pervasive phenomenon of social division, manifesting itself in {{wp|segregation}}, political polarisation, and sometimes physical violence between fans of the opposing teams. This divison has some correlation with other, more ordinary social divisions such as class, neighbourhood, ethnosocial group, and recency of arrival in Valēka, yet eludes simplification to any of these divides. Both rich and poor can be found on either side of the divide, as can recent immigrants to the city and descendants of its first settlers. Many Coscivian ethnosocial groups and non-Coscivian immigrant communities have a pronounced preference for one team over the other, but these are rarely absolute, and most ethnosocial groups are divided along team lines to varying extents. Perhaps most surprisingly, the rivalry has not only endured but rather ''intensified'' despite multiple waves of migration to the city, increased social and residential mobility, and Valēka's relative cosmopolitanism.  Efforts by the city government and the State of Kiygrava to break down barriers between fans of the two teams have had negligible success to date.

| Sikuvian Coscivians || 72 || 28

| Lusem Coscivians || 69 || 31

| [[Alkharvia|Alkharvians]] || 38 || 62