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Lisander in World Rankings:Ranking Sport Pos Points
NSRB 7s Rugby Sevens 1 32.600
RUCT Rugby Union 4 38.67
IBC Basketball 9 17.250
IUBC Basketball 11 15.500
WBC Baseball 15 2.42
GCF T20 Cricket 16 20.183
GCF Test Cricket 18 86.79
World Bowl Gridiron 30 5.50
IFCF Football 54 8.375
KPB Football 83 9.00
The Principality of Lisander is a nation located in the region of Esportiva, and is the home of 11 million people, from various Latin descent, especially Portuguese and French. Lisander National Sport is Rugby Union, and its national Rugby Union Team, the Irises, are between the most powerful teams in the world, but yet waits for its oportunity to win a World Cup of the sport. Association Football is also popular, as well as Field Hockey (a sport exclusively for women) and Basketball. In Lisander, heavy contact sports are separated by gender, for health, safety, privacy and intimacy reasons. Exceptions are Tennis Doubles, Sailing, Equestrian Sports, Motorsports and Fencing.
The southern half of the nation is more populous, industrialized and connected. Soria, the capital and biggest city of the nation, form a larger metropolitan area with Sirenia and Kasandora (respectively third and fourth most populated cities). Despina, the second city in population, is in the southwest. These cities have a long history of multi-sports clubs. Soria is famous for the "big four". Four elite sports clubs founded in the late 1800s to provide sport for upper-middle-class families: Victorian Club, St. Helens Club, Club d'Escrime and Linville Athletic Club (the last one currently seated in Linville, another city of the Metropolis. Sirenia is famous for the complete opposite: Club Sparta, the most decorated club in the nation, with teams participating in most of team sports competition, was founded as a recreative club for the workers of a local textile company. In Despina, there are two multisport clubs: Association Sportive Virtus and Clube Atlético Oeste. The first founded by students and the second founded by factory workers. Kasandora wasn't that big in early 1900, so it had to wait until 1927 to have its most important club founded. The Atlético Clube de Kasandora still have much more modest history and trophy case, but in the last twenty-five years, while the city reached the maximum of its development, it turned into the pride of the locals. All of these clubs are represented in at least one of the major four sports, with Soria "rich" clubs preferring Rugby and Field Hockey, while the rest of the cities prefer Basketball and Football.
The Midnorth Shield, as it's called the agricultural part of the nation, adopted Rugby Union timidly, but the most important sport in the region is basketball, since it's indoors and not waste arable land. Cities like Lerna, Oris and Casterwill are references in basketball. The strength of Basketball in this region is proven by results. Despite having most of the teams in Basketball SuperLiga, southern Lisander NEVER won the tournament. And there's also the North, where it's always cold. Football is quite popular due to its global appeal, and Basketball is slowly reaching but the local sports are Ice Hockey and Sledge Sports (Lisander usually don't care for the Olympics, but we have an improbable Golden Medal in Skeleton, won by Northern Lisanderian Petronilla Martin). Beaumont, Salinas, Grandeville and Sunion are local sports centres.
Just in case you are interested to know where some team or arena is located, in the spoiler you will find a map of Lisander cities.
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