Sports in Honduras

In Honduras a variety of playing sports, but football is more popular among Hondurans. Besides soccer in Honduras athletics, baseball, basketball, karate, judo, swimming, cycling, rugby in general all Olympic disciplines practiced although the most popular are those mentioned.

History

Several sports have been practiced in the territories of present Honduras since prehistoric times, one of the promieros was practiced in the city of Copan called pok-ta-pok in the Millennium AD, an ancestor of basketball and football.

Athletics

The Honduran National Federation of Athletics "FENAHTLE" is the direct governing body of the sport in the country. After football, it is one of the most practiced at the level of Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula sports, and in small amounts in other departments of Honduras.

Sport diving

In Honduras discipline also practice diving. The only teacher or coach who has been able to raise the Central level of the sport in this country is Professor Marino Quiñonez.

Football

Football is the most popular sport among Hondurans, he came to the country as in many others in the early twentieth century, until it was organized properly with the creation of a National League with ten participants from the decade of the sixties equipment.

Baseball

Baseball is the second team sport, most important of Honduras. This sport separated of the Extra-curricular Sport Federation in 1979, being in total disagreement with the administration of this sport being.

Basketball (Basketball)

Basketball is one of the most popular sports in Honduras, several teams, including the national engineering, in which there are professional categories children, youth, academics, and.

CONDEPAH

Most Sports Federations and National Associations of Honduras, are grouped under the Autonomous Sports Confederation of Honduras which was created on September 27, 1993.

Martial arts

Karate, Taekwondo, Judo, Moy Yat Ving Tsun (Wing Chun), Kung Fu, limalama, and contact sports like Kempo, Boxing, Kick Boxing: In Honduras many martial arts as practiced. Muay Thai. (Thai boxing) Today is also being introduced elTai Chi.

Chess in Honduras

Professional chess in Honduras began in 1973 when the San Pedro Sula Chess League was founded in 1993 the National Chess Federation was founded.

by :onasis alvares