Haiti Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Sports=== {{Main|Culture of Haiti#Sports}} [[File:Haiti national football team training in Port-au-Prince 2004-08-16 2.jpg|thumb|[[Haiti national football team]] training in Port-au-Prince, 2004]] [[Association football|Football]] (soccer) is the most popular sport in Haiti with hundreds of small clubs competing at the local level. Basketball and baseball are growing in popularity.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mlb.com/news/blue-jays-helping-bring-baseball-to-haiti/c-31222026|title = Blue Jays helping bring baseball to Haiti|first=Chris|last=Toman|date=13 May 2012|publisher = [[Major League Baseball]]}}</ref><ref name="sport">{{cite book |title=Haiti in Focus: A Guide to the People, Politics, and Culture |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XCi9jFR6v1oC&pg=PA82 |last=Arthur |first= Charles |publisher=Interlink Pub Group Inc |pages=82β83 |isbn=978-1-56656-359-8|year=2002 }}</ref> [[Stade Sylvio Cator]] is the [[multi-purpose stadium]] in Port-au-Prince, currently used mostly for [[association football]] matches. In [[1974 FIFA World Cup|1974]], the [[Haiti national football team]] were only the second [[Caribbean]] team to make the [[FIFA World Cup|World Cup]]. The national team won the [[2007 Caribbean Nations Cup]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.caribbeanandco.com/history-caribbean-teams-fifa-world-cup/ |title=History of Caribbean teams in the FIFA World Cup |access-date=2 September 2014}}</ref> Haiti has participated in the [[Haiti at the Olympics|Olympic Games]] since the year 1900 and won a number of medals. Haitian footballer [[Joe Gaetjens]] played for the [[United States men's national soccer team|United States national team]] in the [[1950 FIFA World Cup]], scoring the winning goal in the 1β0 upset of [[England national football team|England]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2010/jun/10/world-cup-2010-usa-1950-england|title=World Cup 2010: How the USA's 1950 amateurs upset England and the odds|author=Ewen MacAskill|newspaper=The Guardian|date=10 June 2010}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page