Rugby, or rugby, is a game in which an oval ball is driven by the feet or hands of the players to the bottom line of the field, where there is a crossbar similar to an H.
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origin and history
The origin of rugby dates back to the Greeks and Romans, who played ball games. The person responsible for the emergence of the sport is William Webb Ellis.
According to the International Rugby Federation, its origin dates back to 1823, at the Rugby School, located in Rugby, England, hence the name of the sport.
The rules were oral and each school had more or less its own way of playing. William did something different from what they did at school, he ran with the ball in his hands, instead of kicking it, as he was used to doing.
Football itself emerged after the unification of the rules, because before the rules, games were just ball games. Rugby has undergone several changes over the years. In its first participation in the Olympic Games, in 1900, France was crowned champion.
In 1908 it was Australia's turn, and in 1920 and 1924 the medals were obtained by the United States. By choice of the sport's promoters, rugby was absent from the Olympic games for 92 years, having returned in 2016, when Fiji was the champion in men's rugby, and Australia, in women's rugby.
Rugby started in England and has taken over the world. After England, it was in New Zealand, South Africa and Australia that the sport gained a lot of prominence. The New Zealand national rugby team is one of the best in the world. Known as the All Blacks, the team often performs the Haka, which is a typical Maori dance used, among other things, as a form of intimidation.
Rugby arrived in Brazil in 1891, when the Clube Brasileiro de Futebol Rugby was founded. In 1963, the Brazilian Rugby Union (URB) was created, whose president was the Irishman Harry Donovan. Ten years later, URB became Associação Brasileira de Rugby (ABR), which also became, this time, Confederação Brasileira de Rugby (CBRu), in 2010. In 2018, the Brazilian team won the South American Championship 6 Nations, beating Colombia by 67 to 5.
Game rules
The field measures 100 mx 70 m, the duration of a rugby game is different in each of its versions. In the Rugby XV version, with 15 players, the game is played in 2 halves of 40 minutes, while in the Rugby Sevens version, with 7 athletes, the game is played in 2 halves of 7 minutes.
The ball passes in rugby are made sideways or backwards, only with the hands, and forwards, only with the feet. The tackle, which is the play in which a player is knocked down, can only be performed on the player who has the ball.
Tackling a player who does not have possession of the ball is a penalty. Just as it is also a penalty to knock down a player with the ball on the chest line up. Other causes of penalty are obstructing the passage of a player of the opposing team or a player holding the ball when it falls to the ground.
The start of the game, as well as each restart, is done by kicking the ball in the center of the field. At the restart of the game, in Rugby XV, the team that conceded points is kicked, while in Rugby Seven, the kick is given by the team that scored points.
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The try, which consists of passing the goal line (H line) of the opposing team in order to put the ball on the ground, is the move that is worth the most points. When a try is scored, the team guarantees the right to kick between the posts, which is worth two points. It's called conversion.
Another penalty kick, worth 3 points. This happens when a serious foul is committed against the team and the player kicks from the place where the infraction occurred. And to finish the drop goal is worth 3 points, happens the player has to kick the ball to the crossbar, so it must go over the horizontal crossbar, during the game.