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The sport It is one of the most relevant physical activities that human beings have practiced since time immemorial.
Meanwhile, sport, in addition to constituting a competence between athletes, sportsmen and teams, it is an extremely important activity for the human being as a consequence of the benefits reported for health and also in social matters since it is an integrative practice socially; not to mention its recreational function to actively and healthily alleviate leisure.

There are a huge number of sports, however, among the most practiced and popular are soccer, baseball, tennis, basketball, volleyball, hockey and rugby, sports practice that will occupy us in this review.

A collective sport born in England in which two teams compete for control of an oval ball that they must use to score goals or trys.

The rugby It is an extremely popular sport, played as a team, whose origin goes back to 19th century in England and in which two groups composed of fifteen players each intervene, who will compete for control of the ball, of

appearance oval physics, in order to convert as many as possible to place them with an advantage on the scoreboard over the rival.

How do you play?

The goals or so many are effectively achieved by carrying the aforementioned ball with the hands of a player beyond the line of goal. test, or by inserting it with your foot above the horizontal crossbar of the bow.

Although rugby was born as such in England and is very popular in every corner of the English soil, also, over time, it became very popular in other parts of the world such as Argentina, Italy, New Zealand, France, among others.

New Zealand has the most powerful and winning rugby team in the world, popularly known as All Blacks. It is the team that has won the world championship the most times and that in addition to its impeccable play and super winner is recognized by the peculiar dance that they perform before each game: the haka, an ancient custom of the Maori culture, which was the one that originally inhabited those land.

So the game consists of the confrontation of two teams composed of 15 players each, which will take place on a rectangular-shaped playing field, 100 meters long by 70 wide and generally with a grass surface.
In addition, two areas are added to the playing field, the mark or in-goal area, at each end, which do not have more than 22 meters each; in in goal the ball will be supported to obtain the try or rehearsal, which is considered the main score of the game and the play that the two teams try to achieve and of course the action of preventing the opponent from carrying out.
In addition, at the ends of the playing field lie two posts separated by a little more than five meters and joined by a crossbar.

As we mentioned above, the objective in rugby is to obtain the most points. Regarding the rival team, meanwhile, such a question will be possible from the following annotations: try (5 points, consists of landing the ball in the opponent's goal zone), criminal try (5 points, after sanction charged by the referee for the foul commission of the rival team, the team will be given the possibility favored to attempt the conversion, which will be carried out from a position equidistant from the poles), drop goal (3 points, it is a type of kick that is done by dropping the ball to the ground and kicking it immediately afterwards), penalty goal (3 points, certain infractions are sanctioned with the collection of penalties, the favored team will be able to kick towards the posts from the place where the fault occurred) and the conversion (2 points, the try achieved, the favored team has right to kick the ball towards the posts).

Criticism for the violence proposed by its practice versus sociability

His enormous popularity has not stopped the barrage of criticism and controversy that is unleashed in his environment as consequence of the strong friction that characterizes it and that often causes severe competitors injuries.
Physical contact is common in many sports, but in rugby most of the time it has a virulence that exceeds that of rest of the collective sports, then, its detractors have taken this situation as a workhorse to combat it and criticize it.

Anyway and beyond these questions, rugby, has won since its creation many practitioners as well as also very loyal fans who accompany their local teams and not to mention their teams when the cup arrives world.

Despite being a sport that proposes violent physical contact, as we have already pointed out, rugby is a sport that makes special emphasis on sociability and friendship between teammates and rivals. It is common that after the celebration of a match, colleagues and rivals meet in what is called third time to share a meal and drink.

The International Rugby Board It is the federative-type association that regulates all issues and interference in sport throughout the world.

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