Sport in Kurdistan and Switzerland

Sport in the Kurdistan region

Since the war (2003), people are more interested in sport. Football is the most popular sport in the Kurdistan region. Several sport complexes have been founded by the government and the private sector in each city in the last few years. Now the Kurdistan region has four football clubs that are contributing in the Iraqi premier league: Hawler, Duhok, Zaxo and Selemaniye. In the last four years the Champion cup has remained in this area; 3 times with Hawler club and once with Duhok club.

goalzz.com, Hawler club

  Famous Sport in Switzerland

Switzerland is famous for skiing. Because there are a lot of mountains where you can practice this sport and it's sure that every winter it snows. Each January there is an international ski race in the Swiss Alps which is called “Lauberhornrennen”. Of course football is also a quite famous sport but not like in England for example.

article.wn.com, Didier Defago

Differences in sport activities between Switzerland and Kurdistan

As Switzerland is a mountainous country skiing is the most famous sport in this country while football is the most popular in the Kurdistan region. There are several pistes in the Swiss Alps that are very famous and many tourists all over the world travel to this country to do skiing. Whereas in the Kurdistan region there are good facilities for playing football but not for skiing.

 

Panoramio.com Lauberhornrennen in Wengen

goalzz.com duhok stadium

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