Sports edit
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Team El Salvador at the opening ceremony of the 2019 International Physics Olympiad -
Salvadoran baseball players El Salvador national baseball team -
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The main sport played by Salvadorans is association football. The Estadio Cuscatlán in the capital San Salvador is the largest stadium in Central America, with a capacity of just over 45,000. The stadium is the home ground of the El Salvador national football team, as well as club teams Alianza FC and Atletico Marte
The main football clubs in El Salvador play in the Primera División de Fútbol de El Salvador, which is made up of the top ten clubs. Below the Primera División exists a second level or Segunda División, made up of 24 teams split into two groups of twelve. There is promotion and relegation between the two divisions at the end of each season.
As of late 2021, El Salvador's women's national volleyball team has been among the top contenders in Central America's AFECAVOL (Asociación de Federaciones CentroAmericanas de Voleibol) zone.[1]
Traditions and Events edit
El Salvador celebrates many holidays and traditions and interstingly enough, they celbrate International Women's day[2]. Although it may be an "international holiday” businesses are still open all day with regular open to close hours. The country's businesses may stay open, but there are many women and organizations who rule the streets of El Salvador hoping to get a step closer to equal rights and fighting for what they believe in.
Another big tradition that El salvador celebrates is “Las Bolas De Fuego”[3] translated to “The Balls on Fire”. This festival includes 2 teams that light up a ball of cloth on fire and start throwing it towards each other like it's a game of dodgeball. For outsiders this tradition may seem strange but its something that brings thousands of Salvadorans together and unites the country for a day. There are many reasons as to why this event is celebrated the way it is but the most well-known reason is because of the Volcanic eruption that occured in 1658. Balls of fire from the eruption destroyed the town of Nejapa, resulting everyone fleeing the town. From this tragic chain of events is what made the annual event popular.
Architecture edit
El Salvador's colonial structures, especially its colonial cathedrals, have been destroyed over time by historic earthquakes, consequently Modernist and Gothic style cathedrals have taken their place. During the Salvadoran civil war, large building construction projects were halted and eventually cancelled due to the collapse of the economy; the remainder of Streamline Moderne, early Modernist office and hotel buildings collapsed during the 1986 San Salvador earthquake and the January 2001 and February 2001 El Salvador earthquakes, while the few remaining old buildings were left uninhabitable. The seismic nature of El Salvador has until recently hindered the construction of high rise buildings and skyscrapers in the country; however, with new technological advances and the advent of earthquake-resistant structures, high rise buildings have begun blooming. Today the country has monuments, plazas, stadiums, high rise buildings, large malls and cathedrals built in Neo-Gothic, Modernist, Populuxe, Googie, Art Deco and Futurist style architecture
- ^ "Belize drops game to Nicaragua, drops to 1-4 at Central American Senior Women's Volleyball Championship". Breaking Belize News. 23 October 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
- ^ "Women's Day in El Salvador". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
- ^ "Casa de la Cultura de Nejapa conmemora las bolas de fuego - Ministerio de Cultura". Ministerio de Cultura - (in Spanish). 2021-09-01. Retrieved 2022-08-18.