Traditional wrestling attracts young men in Senegal

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Wrestling is a game which requires energy and is played around the world with different rules and regulations.

There is a modern enterprise which has included wrestling practiced other fighting games, but there is a traditional wrestling which excludes fighting.

Senegalese wrestling, or 'Laamb' in Wolof, began in the villages, when farmers who only worked during the fertile rainy season would pass the time with this sport that has been practised across the continent for hundreds of years.During the dry seasons, the farmers would come to the cities looking for work. There they found an audience of people keen to watch and bet on the matches.

As the sport gained in popularity, it began to take on elements of martial arts, incorporating boxing, judo and karate, as well as the traditional elements of African wrestling.

While Senegal failed to qualify for both the World Cup and the African Cup of Nations in the last two years, the audiences have flocked to wrestling and left football out in the cold.
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wrestling has been able to reduce crime and delinquency in the suburbs.Young people now train hard. Before, they didn't have any work, they were in the suburbs getting into drugs and fighting. But now, with wrestling, they have a healthy occupation. It's a job which has really been able to turn the youth around, reduce unemployment and crime.

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