Choose Rugby


CHOOSE RUGBY.

Choose a club. Choose a team. Choose a family. Choose a f*cking big prop; choose jumpers, tactics, big mean forwards and lightning fast backs. Choose good health, low blows, and dental insurance. Choose fixed stares and intimidating hakas. Choose a starting line-up. Choose a top-end scrum machine on hire purchase in a range of f*cking colours. Choose ICU and wondering where the f*ck you've woken up on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that icecold bench watching mind-numbing, spirit-enriching live matches, stuffing f*ucking cold pies into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of the night, pishing your last in a miserable outhouse, nothing less than a legend to the selfish, f*cked-up brats you trained to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose Rugby.


ESCOLHA RUGBY.

Escolha Rugby. Escolha um clube. Escolha um time. Escolha uma familia. Escolha um prop do c*ralho; escolha segunda-linhas, táticas, grandes e crueis forwards, e rápidos backs. Escolha uma boa saúde, golpes baixos, e o plano dental. Escolha olhares fixos e hakas intimidantes.
Escolha um ponto de partida line-up. Escolha seus amigos. Escolha agasalho e kitbags combinando. Escolha uma máquina potente de scrum comprada ou de alugada em uma gama de cores do c*ralho. Escolha UTI e se perguntando onde diabos você acordou numa manhã de domingo. Escolha sentar naquele banco assistindo entorpecido mentalmente, com espírito enriquecedor aos jogos ao vivo, estufando de tortas frias do c*ralho em sua boca. Escolha apodrecer no final da noite, xingando seu passado em uma casinha miserável, nada mais do que uma lenda para os egoístas, pirralhos f*dido você treinou para substitui-lo. Escolha o seu futuro. Escolha Rugby.


Saturday 9 October 2010

Fact Hunt

Photo shows Brasil women's national 7-a-side team, champions of South America.

 

Some general info about Brasil and its rugby. 

Brasil has a population of almost 200 million people, with about 150 rugby clubs/teams. It has a bigger area than mainland USA, ie it's HUGE. 
There are 26 states, plus the federal capital, Brasilia.

The country is split into five regions: North (7 states, pop'n 16m); Northeast (9 states, 55 m); Centre-west (3 states plus Brasilia, 15m); South-East (4 states, 82 m); South (3 states, 29m).  Rugby is strongest in the South and South-East.





The South-East
Sao Paulo state (population 41 million) is the richest, and is the hotspot for rugby, with 5 teams in the Super 8 national championship. (Two more teams will be added in 2011, to make it the Super 10). Neighbouring Rio de Janeiro state has 16 million people, and has one team, Niteroi, in the Super 8.  Minas Gerais (20 million) and Espirito Santo (4 million), currently have no teams in the Super 8.

The South
Rio Grande do Sul (pop'n 11m) has no team in the Super 8, but will have one in the expanded Super 10. It has a fairly strong rugby presence, perhaps due to the state being close to both Argentina and Uruguay. Santa Catarina (6m) and Parana (11m) each have one team in the Super 8.


The national governing body is the CBRu, Brazilian Rugby Confederation, but more about that in a later post.
Each state that plays rugby has (or should have) its own federation, which organizes the local state championship.
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