Domestic football in Ariddia

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Football in Ariddia may well be a national craze, but foreigners are often surprised to find it doesn’t work at all in the same way as in the rest of the world. This is due to Ariddia being a society in which money has no place. Consequently there are no incentives to tempt foreign players into Ariddian clubs, and little to motivate Ariddian players into joining a club outside their home city, town or village. Ariddians seem to like it that way, one common point made being that “at least a town’s club in Ariddia represents the people of that town”.

City clubs routinely play against clubs from the armed forces – the army, navy and air force each have one or more football clubs -, the police, various universities, and other groups which have started their own club. There is even a “Limean Island FC”, founded by West Ariddians who have moved to the PDSRA, and whose club is a quiet protest against the separatist government in West Ariddia. Nobody in Ariddia plays football for the money, since there’s no money to be gained by it. “Professional” football players sometimes alternate their playing with another job.

Until recently, there was no formal system specifying how Ariddians could play in foreign clubs. Now, however, the Ariddian Football Association, run by the government in Rêvane, has established guidelines to enable PDSRA players to be recruited abroad. The rules stipulate that the buying club must pay its Ariddian players a sufficient salary to guarantee them decent living conditions in the nation in question, and must also pay a supplement directly to the Ariddian national treasury. The overall sum is sufficiently low to make Ariddian players extremely cheap on the international market.

The following members of the national Rouge-et-Noirs team (see Ariddia's football team) now play abroad:

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