| than national championships. The latter are becoming an object of interest for a very small part of society (the only exception might by Lithuanian basketball league super final, which usually reflects the animosity between the two biggest towns: Vilnius and Kaunas). In turn the marginal fan groups, which kept a clear nationalistic orientation from Soviet times, have an ideological potential to migrate towards the euro-skepticism, anti-globalism and xenophobia.
Regardless of huge former importance of sport in sustaining national identity, nowadays, only in case of signal victory, sport is able to rally strong “emotional communities”. As a matter of fact, modern-day Lithuanian general public’s interest in sports is rather occasional, maybe even accidental phenomenon which possess no endurance in daily life. “Sport loving nation” stereotype was shaped by mass-media, because even sports contest visiting rates, generally mouthy and inflated in official protocols, proves slight popularity of sport in Lithuania in comparison with others East-central European countries.
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