Editing Ludlow, Massachusetts (section)

==Culture==
[[Image:Downtown Ludlow MA.JPG|thumb|left|325px|Downtown Ludlow]]
[[Portuguese-American]]s make up 21% of the population of the town.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ludlowmp.org/docs/minutes/meet_min_may_6_10.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=July 14, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101010210043/http://ludlowmp.org/docs/minutes/meet_min_may_6_10.pdf |archive-date=October 10, 2010 }}</ref> The Portuguese church Our Lady of Fatima puts on an annual Festa, which is one of the most significant cultural events for Portuguese-Americans in the country.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wwlp.com/dpp/news/local/wwlp_local_PortugueseAmericanFatimafesta_200909072206 |title=Portuguese American Fatima festa &#124; WWLP.COM |access-date=July 11, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927174301/http://www.wwlp.com/dpp/news/local/wwlp_local_PortugueseAmericanFatimafesta_200909072206 |archive-date=September 27, 2011 }}<nowiki/></ref> Ludlow is also home to many who are of Polish and French Canadian descent. [[Soccer]] is an extremely popular sport in Ludlow. The town's high school soccer team is the most dominant in Western Mass and has been ranked in the top 20 high school programs nationally by the NSCAA and has won many state championships as well, including the most recent one in 2018.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}} The town is also home to the amateur [[Gremio Lusitano]], and the [[Western Mass Pioneers]] and [[Western Mass Lady Pioneers]] professional [[soccer]] teams.  The Pioneers play in the [[USL Second Division]] while the Lady Pioneers compete in the [[USL W-League (1995–2015)|USL W-League]].  Both teams play their home games at [[Lusitano Stadium]] in Ludlow.  In 1996, the [[National Soccer Hall of Fame]] added Ludlow to its soccer history display.