Ice hockey

Spain and Sweden are different, as you may realized from what I have been telling you the last months. One of the differences is in hobbies. For example, while in Spain most of people enjoy watching or playing football or basketball, in Sweden winter sports are the most popular ones. It is not surprising, since the winter last almost the half of the year. One of the national sports is ice hockey. The Swedish ice hockey league is quite important and, therefore, there are hockey stadiums in the most important cities of Sweden. Umea team, the Björklöven, is in the Bronze Division of the Nord, like a 3rd regional division. Although it seems not to be very important, each division has only 8 teams (or 12 in the first league) so it is easy to be promoted to another league. In fact, Umea team was in the 1st league not many years ago.