Sports
Hapoel Nazareth Illit is the city's major football team. Having been promoted to the top division for the first time in 2003, the club was later relegated in 2006 to Liga Leumit, the second tier, where they currently play. The city also hosted several Bnei Sakhnin games during 2005 and 2006 as Sakhnin's Doha Stadium did not meet the Israeli Premier League requirements at the time. The city's basketball team, Hapoel Nazareth Illit is playing in the Second division Liga Leumit.
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“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
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One only master grasps the whole domain,
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—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)