Sports Deportes in Spanish Speaking Countries

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Sports (Deportes)in Spanish Speaking Countries

• Matthew Dolen and Andrew Rogers

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Sports in Spain
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Soccer

• Deporte Rey - (King of Sports) in Spain
• Futbol (Spanish word for Soccer)
• First played in 1873
• Stadiums
• Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid
• 90,000 people
• Built in 1947
• Noucamp Stadium in Barcelona
• 100,000 people
• Built in 1956
• Barcelona and Real Madrid have been the best
  teams in the last couple of years.
• Primera Division of la Liga
• one of the most competitive and skilled leagues
  in the world
• Founded in 1928
• Only nine teams have won the Spanish Championship
  Title
• Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Deportivo La Coruna,
  Athletic Bilbao, Valencia, Atletico Madrid, Real
  Sociedad, Betis and Sevilla.
• Games usually played on Sundays from September to
  May

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Soccer Tournaments

• Valencia Cup April 13-17, 2006
• Costa Blanca Cup July 9-15, 2006
• 250 teams from all over the world take part
• Donosti Cup July 2-8 2006

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Basque Ball

• Jai-alai (Hi Lie)
• Season October June
• Fastest game in the world
• Ball travels at a speed of 150 miles/hour
• Court CANCHA
• A rectangle with sold walls on 3 sides and a wire
  screen on the 4th side.
• The ball (PELOTA ) is caught and thrown with a
  glove-shaped wicker basket (CESTA) strapped to
  the players wrist.

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Other Interesting Sports Related Facts

• 1992 Summer Games
• Barcelona, Spain
• Castellers (Human Castles)
• Catalonian Region of Spain
• Sport and tradition to see what team can build
  the tallest castle
• Strength and Balance

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Other Sports

• Snow Skiing
• Pyrenees Mountains of North Spain
• Water Sports
• Skiing, Swimming, Sailing
• - Near the Mediterranean Sea
• Wind Surfing
• Tariff, Gibraltar
• Cycling
• Tour de Spain
• Home to Miquel Indurain
• Golf Courses
• Almost 200 golf clubs
• Professional Golfers
• Roberto Trent Jones Jose Maria Olazebel.
• Tennis
• Conde De Godo International Trophi
• April in Barcelona
• Motor Racing
• The Formula 1 Grand Prix

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Sports in Mexico
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Bullfighting (Corrida de Toros)

• Most of the large cities in Mexico have
  bullfighting rings
• Season Dec. 25 April
• Six bulls are fought by three Matadors
• Each Matador fights two bulls for approximately
  twenty minutes.
• Mexico City has the largest bullfighting ring in
  the world. 
• Monumental Plaza Mexico
• About 55,000 people can watch a match

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Soccer

• The Tricolores, or Tri for short
• Mexico National Football Team
• Estadio Azteca (Azteca Stadium)
• Mexico City
• seats 114,600 people and hosts regular soccer
  matches
• Built in 1966 for the 1968 Summer Olympics
• In 1970 and 1986 the World Cup International
  Soccer Championships were hosted in Mexico City

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Wrestling

• Lucha libre, "free-style fighting,"
• is a genre of professional wrestling developed in
  Mexico.
• Mexican wrestling is marked by rapid sequences of
  holds and moves, as well as spectacular
  high-flying moves.
• The wrestlers wear masks
• costume tradition
• a major dramatic device
• Famous Mexican Wrestler
• El Hijo del Santo

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Sports in South America Cuba
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Baseball

• The first organized Baseball Club - Caracas
  BBC.
• Established May 1895
• Amenodoro Franklin and his brothers Emilio,
  Gustavo, and Augusto
• 182 Venezuela players have played in Major League
  Baseball.
• Freddy García
• Víctor Martínez
• August 2000 the team from Marcaibo, Venezuela won
  the Little League World Series in Pennsylvania

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Baseball

• In Cuba, players ride their bikes to the stadiums
  and know their fans by name
• These are some of the best players and they dont
  play for money, they play for the love of the
  game
• In 2003 the players that were paid by the state
  got paid 250 to 350 pesos 10 to 15 dollars a
  month
• The players that play here are down to earth and
  are treated like a regular citizen

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• They have the old fashioned scoreboards in most
  stadiums.
• Latino Americano stadium was opened in 1948 where
  the Cuban national team played until it was
  closed in 1960 by Castro

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Dominican Republic

• There is also a lot of players from Dominican
  Republic that play baseball in the U.S.
• Albert Pujols
• Manny Ramirez
• Vladimir Guerrero
• Sammy Sosa
• Pedro Martinez

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Resources

• http//www.spain-info.com/Culture/Sports-spain.htm
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• http//www.answers.com/topic/football-world-cup
• http//ww.sparchcaffe-spanien.com/ingles/depo.html
  
• http//iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Fall02/Landino/ind
  ex.html
• http//gofree.indigo.ie/janoty/euskadi/pelote_en.
  htm
• http//www.hickoksports.com/history/jai-alai.shtml
  
• http//www.dania-jai-alai.com/history.htm
• http//encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761569238_2/Me
  xico_City.html
• http//gomexico.about.com/cs/culture/a/bullfights.
  htm
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucha_libre
• http//www.bbc.co.uk.dna/h2g2/A282971
• http//www.stadiumguide.com/noucamp.htm
• http//welcome.topuertorico.org/culture/sports.sht
  ml
• http//www.oxfam.org/uk/coolplanet/ontheline/explo
  re/journey/spain/prtsport.htm
• http//encarta.msn.com/text_761559854___0/Bullfigh
  ting.html
• http//encarta.msn.com/text_761572379___0Soccer.ht
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• http//www.zonalatina.com/ZLData134.htm
• http//www.sprachcaffe-spanien.com/ingles/depo.htm
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• http//wwwspanish-living.com/sports_index.php