The Rugby World and its impact on British politics and international

On Saturday 20 met in Paris the leaders of three major military powers of the world that are between zero and twenty meridians. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and South African President Thabo Mbeki met, but not to focus on policy discussions, weapons or economics, but to present awards to the first two teams in the Rugby World Cup France 2007 .

Both Sarkozy and Brown have recently come to their positions and expect their teams to beat and give them a great debut to their mandates. Eiffel Tower in Paris was adorned with an oval ball and placed giant screens in several parts. Between them and the spectators who filled the central stadium was more than a third of a million attendees. Some 60,000 Englishmen traveled to the city of light to see your selection, although the final match tickets could be sold to more than $ 15,000 (£ 7,000).

As the economy and tourism in France benefited from the cup, the transportation union paralyzed many amenities of the metro and train looking to take advantage of it to seek better working and drilling plans monetarist reforms Sarkozy.

Brown and the British Queen's grandchildren were in the Aviva Stadium to your selection. The premier urged a victory. 4 years ago, when England won their first Rugby World Cup, the government of Blair and Brown spent a long time while some 500,000 people took to the streets to greet the triumphant English cast.

When Brown was 16 years old lost an eye playing rugby and he now thought that an English victory would restore the sport of the good eye with which his subjects had been seeing for the first hundred days of his administration.

Brown spent half a month ago for its most popular time when his party made its annual conference and was ten or more points ahead in the polls over their conservative rivals. However, when playing with the idea of ​​early elections his party made mistakes (besides losing a million pounds). When Labour wanted to recover from its slump in the polls several recipes tax copying rivals 'Tory' did nothing to further enhance his detractors who claim that they had better let them enact their theses that they originated.

Brown begins the last week of October without their stars had triumphed in rugby or motor racing circus and without having to show, in circumstances where there is much debate this week because the bill to reform the European Union, the same as Conservatives demand that is submitted to a referendum.

The South African victory

England failed to become the first nation to retain the Cup Rugby. The South African victory will have many social and political repercussions in the richest nation in the black continent and which was the most racist in the world.

Who watched the rugby quickly noticed something sticking out: the vast majority of players and the fans were white South African rugby. In this republic where 80% of the population is colored, thirteen of the fifteen incumbents are of European origin. While in European football teams usually see more black faces than the average population of that country (which states that the sport is a form of upward mobility for minorities of African origin) in South Africa the reverse occurs.

There rugby is the game's elite private schools for whites. Until a decade ago the black majority in South Africa was considered the sport of their oppressors, and would ask the victory of any team to play against them. Even today the symbol of the South African football is a doe colors are green and gold, very different symbols and colors of this republic led by the disciples of Mandela.

The white descendants of British colonists and the Boers (who 105 years ago were cruelly crushed by British troops) have been the most celebrated victory. For them it is a vindication of their ethnicity and their role in South Africa. For the ruling African National Congress to support the 'gazelles' is a way to seek reconciliation between races. When white South African players threw their shoulders President Mbeki who showed up the trophy won, this was understood by many as an acknowledgment that the ancient race makes most dominant color. However, the great majority of South African social conditions have changed little since the end face of apartheid and what happened is not something that appeals to them much.

The South African majorities tend to use football as a sport they express and try to make the World Cup football 2010 as a way to show your new pride. In three years the eyes of world sport will be placed in a republic that will attempt to show their attempts to quit have been the most segregated in the world.

Rugby World Cup

This competition is played every four years and just in the odd year lag between the one for the World Cup and the Olympics. While these games do not arouse universal enthusiasm or football games of all disciplines, its influence is growing. Just 20 years ago the first of the five tournaments he has had joined the international rugby.

If the Olympics and the World Cup have suffered from wars and political vetoes to certain nations, rugby world has been rid of them and appeared almost to the beginning of the end of the Cold War.

Rugby is a variant of football. Until the mid-nineteenth century, many teams used to play football variants that were played only with the feet and hands worn. Over time the two disciplines were excised. The Football Association and rugby have in common the use of large fields dominated by arcs where two teams face after a ball and arbitration of a referee and two linesmen.

However, while the game worth the use of hands and tripping, rugby encourages the regulated use of it. While in the soccer goalkeeper only use your hands, in rugby there goalie and all players can use their hands to throw the ball and run with it. If the goal in football gets a kick in the arc element in rugby s done with a kick that must pass over the goal, which has large poles above it.

While soccer is sanctioned in the fact that the ball leaves the line where the arc in the rugby maximum score is when an attacking player crosses over the end line and dives after the ball this oval. This action results in 5 points and then a right to shoot archery easy usually provide an extra two points. When a player kicks the ball over the goal (either through play or charging a penalty) charged three points.

By its very nature football is a sport suitable for people of all kinds of physicists. However, the rugby body requires a lot of toughness. No other sport is played at international level awakens both pitched like a war like this. All players must have big breasts and armored parties are full of shocks, driven and blood. When a player has the ball above the opponents must tirársele to avoid it and his companions also go out to defend throwing himself on his 'captors'. Perhaps no other team game requires much discipline, coordination and scheduled like football violence.

It has two variants: the union and the league. The first is the most popular sport and is also the brother of the football stadiums filled to level most of the globe.

There are a hundred countries affiliated to the Confederation of rugby. While all the world cup football since his first single in 1930 have had on their end of the current countries of Mercosur and European Union within five rugby world has been since his first Cup finals in 1987 has There teams of three continents (Europe,? Africa and Oceania).

Rugby has become popular particularly in the three Anglo-speaking southern hemisphere: Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. It is still an expensive sport and played mostly by whites. While there are a growing number of Polynesian players he still does not hit much in populations of black, Asian or Amerindian.

By their nature, can not become rugby as his brother in the sport of soccer globalization, however, its international influence grows.

An innovation that has the game (and maybe football could imitate) is that it allows for a moving video that goes behind a rail in key parts of the court. This allows the viewer a better view, is used by a special court to settle on big plays. For example, in the final match England-South Africa video-judge overturned five key points for the English. Many in Britain say that if the 'soccer' would have been this kind of mail Argentina jury had not been eliminated in a world with his famous goal in hand.

Argentina was third

This world was about to have culminated in a final in which they found England with Argentina. This film had been match for after shocks that give each of their respective teams have millions of fans on both sides that they were remembering the Falklands War 25 years ago and the conflicts that today Buenos Aires has London as a result of attempts to Westminster to authorize gas exploration in the 'Falklands' and annex a million square kilometers of Antarctica claimed by Argentina and Chile as their own.

Argentina did well in rugby they finished third and made the first South America between the semifinals of the sport. However, it was South Africa who first removed and then beat him to those who won in the Falklands.

The good performance gaucho may want to be used by President Kirchner who expects his wife to be the first lady in the world to be elected to the presidency.

Rugby has not aroused passions in Latin America (except for Argentina fans) but on both sides of the channel and its effects will be felt in the coming days. In France, Sarkozy will want revenge for the transport strike in England and Brown may not offer a national victory to find bullfighting the onslaught of the opposition.

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