Thursday, January 24, 2019

The World Rugby Championship 1999

The fourth Rugby World Cup 1999 for the second time were participants of the then five-nation championship (Wales, Ireland, France, England, and Scotland), and today's Six Nations (plus Italy) participants of the most elite European competition. The opening was in Cardiff in Wales at the Millenium Stadium, where the final match was played. The novelty of this championship is that the number of participants has increased to 20, and rugby has by then become a professional sport and professional rugby players have made most of the teams that were not the case in the previous championships.

The final was played 6.11, and Australia and France met in the final game in Cardiff to eventually win the Australians with a score of 35: 12. Australia's points were scored by Tune and Finegan by 5 points by laying that Burke even 21 times and hitting it seven times shot from the foul and twice conversion. Lamaison scored 12 points from four fouls. Third place wins Springboks by defeating All Blacks by 22: 18. The top scorer of the tournament was Gonzalo Quesada of Argentina with 102 points. The player with the highest layout was the biggest of all who ever wore a ball, Jonah Lomu with 8 goals.

The World Rugby Championship 1995

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red history in the fact that they were independently hosts, which was not the case for the previous two championships. In addition, this championship will be remembered for something else: the fact that this event was inscribed with golden letters in history, because by then the "white sport" became only what it really is, and that is a sport that connects and respects people, regardless of on their differences.

After years of "apartheid", a big man came to the position of president, perhaps the biggest one that Africa gave him, Nelson Mandela. He decided to support the JAR team at the Rugby World Championship and thus encouraged the team that other dark-skinned compatriots decided to come to the stadium and support the national team they had called up white until then and that they were a symbol of minority terror over the majority. In the final against All Blacks from New Zealand in the Row battle that did not see the end, as there were pierced, Mandela came down from the stands to Springboks's locker room and motivated them, who later admitted to himself that this speech gave him incentives and knew they are not going to go away.

In extra time they celebrated a drop-kick shot by the flanker François Pienaar, and All Blacks are still justified by poisoning food the night before.
The winner's cup was handed to his "white" compatriots Nelson Mandela dressed in the green cap of Springboks and the Republic of South Africa. After this championship, rugby in the JAR became the most popular sport, and there was no further prejudice about how it was a sport intended for white men. The third place at this championship came from the French team that beat England 19: 9. Jonah Lomu (7), one of the best rugby players of all time, is at this championship of the most successful player. And the most points were scored by French opener Thierry Lacroix.

The World Rugby Championship 1991

The Rugby World Cup in 1991 was the first World Cup in Europe, and the organizers were participants of the Five Nations Championship (today plus Italy): England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and France. For the first time, qualifications were played. Quarter-finals with SP 1987 achieved direct placement, while 25 teams played squads to reach the eight teams that will qualify for the championship.

In this tournament, the scoring method has changed, so the three points have won for victory, two for the draw and one for defeat. The championship was opened by the defending champion New Zealand and one of England's hosts, while the game played at Twickenham in front of some 70,000 spectators. New Zealanders lost at halftime, and then reversed below and came to victory from 18:12. Both teams eventually finished in the quarter-finals.

 In the group stage, the surprise was made by West Samoa, which beat the third team from the previous championship, the Welsh team, with 16:13 and eliminated them from the competition. It is worth mentioning the good result of Canada, which finished second in its group and went to the quarter-finals, but against New Zealand, of course, she could not. The disqualification of the World Championship was Fiji's team, which ended in the group stage with all three defeats.

They were first defeated by Canada with 13: 9, then from France with 33: 9 and finally from Romania 17:15. In the quarter-finals, New Zealand and Scotland achieved the expected victories. New Zealand won Canada 29:13, while Scotland was better than Western Samoa with 28: 6. In the quarter-final, two derbies were also played.

England won the match at the previous World Cup, France, with a score of 19:18, while Australia defeated Ireland in a dramatic match with 19:18. In the semifinals, two very interesting matches were played. In the game without laying England defeated Scotland with 9: 6, and to victory came a drop-kick shot in the last attack. Australia defeated defenders of the All Blacks title with 16: 6. In the grand finale held at Twickenham, Australia beat England with 12: 6 thanks to try out Daly in the first half.

The World Rugby Championship 1987



The first and historic rugby championship was held in 1987 and was jointly organized by New Zealand and Australia. In New Zealand, the All Blacks home to the organization of 20 games, of which two quarterfinals and that biggest final game. While Australia organized 12 games, two semi-finals, and a third place. There were 16 national teams in the championship, two hosts were directly hosted, France, Wales, Ireland, England, and Scotland. A direct show was also provided to the South Africa team, but due to interracial interference in the country, they dropped out of the competition. Interestingly, the qualifications were not played, the invitations were distributed, and even more interestingly, as the team did not receive the invitation even though it was part of the above-mentioned representations, it seems that at that time everything was not ideal in the "neighborhood".

Al 'that's why the invitations were received by Argentina, Fiji, Italy, Canada, Romania, Tonga, Japan, Zimbabwe, and the United States. It's interesting to say that all of these teams play in Zimbabwe at the upcoming England Championship. The first world champions were New Zealand's best known as All Blacks, who beat the French team in the finals with 29: 9. In the "small" finals, the third place battle, Australia, who hosted the game, lost to Welsh 21: 22. The All Blacks team was led by captain David Edward Kirk and ultimately topped the trophy of the winner Eden Park Stadium in Auckland on June 20, 1987, before 46,000 spectators. The first shooter of the first rugby championship was Grant Fox fly half All Blacks with 126 points and one of the best kickers in the history of All Blacks. He marked this championship along with the legendary wing of Kirwan.