What is the national game of mauritius?

Question

I m in research about mauritius, so got stuck about sports in mauritius....

Answer 1

You wont find anything specific to Mauritius other than Football.

Support mostly goes to Manchester United. Others do follow Chealsea, Liverpool etc but are alot less.

We have a few stadiums here and also there are quite a few matches played between local areas and some International matches too ie in Rodrigues.

The Lack of population, size of the country and money makes it difficult to produce higher quality of players.

Some players may even have a day job.

Other sports include Volleyball and basketball. Rugby is just starting but is far from common.

Answer 2

Mauritius has just held the Confederation Africaine de Rugby competition with Reunion, Tanzania, and Mayotte.  The winners were the Reunion team, though Mauritius came second in the round-robin competition.

Answer 3

At a guess, it has to football.

Answer 4

The island, which has 1.3m inhabitants, has a huge variety of sports on offer, from deep sea fishing to beach volleyball and tennis.

BUT THE NATIONAL IS RUGBY

Rugby was introduced to Mauritius by the British Army during colonial times (1810-1968). The first club in Mauritius was the Dodo Club, founded in 1928 by a group of Franco-Mauritian rugby players. With the founding of many more clubs, rugby was regularly played at a senior level from 1928 to 1975. However when Mauritius became independent in 1968, rugby becan to struggle as funding from Britain and France was cut. But thanks to a highly successful development program in the late 20th Century, rugby was reborn in the island nation. Mauritius began to participate in Sevens tournaments with Réunion, Madagascar and other island nations in the Indian Ocean. This tournament runs to this day. Sevens success helped the Mauritius 15-a-side team, so finally, in 2005 the Mauritius national rugby team played their first ever international against Tanzania, winning 20 points to 10. They also won subsequent matches against Rwanda, Burundi and Burkina Faso. Their fantastic start to international rugby has caused tremendous growth of the sport in Mauritius, with thousands of people flocking to see them play. They participate in the south section of the CAR Castel Beer Trophy, which they surprisingly won in 2005. However in both the 2006 and 2007 editions, the side's hopes were dashed in the group stage by Botswana, who went on to win in 2007.