Bolivian+Sports+and+Hobbies

**__Bolivian Sports and Pastimes__**
Soccer is the main sport in Bolivia. In Spanish, soccer is called futbol.  Soccer is the main sport in South America. In major cities in Bolivia, popular soccer teams play for large crowds in large stadiums. Their main team  is the Bolivian National soccer team. Besides soccer, Bolivians love to play chess, card games and any kind of board game. A popular game for women is canasta or rummy. Men like to play a game called cacho. This game involves dice and they try to shoot tiny pieces of metal into the mouth of a toy frog. Children also have their games that they like to play. Children play marbles and tops. Just like American girls, Bolivian girls like to jump rope and play hopscotch. The poor children have to make their own toys like homemade dolls. A very popular event in Bolivia is the annual reed boat race and annual swimming race in Lake Titicaca.The water is extremely cold but contestants have a great time participating in it. Also, outside of the city of La Paz, there are professional grade golf courses for the middle-high class citizens of Bolivia.