aussagen ueber rugby (union) in den usa.

top-zitat: "there is one thing I know for sure: the US rugby establishment must disabuse itself of the notion that the pool of college football players who don't make it to the NFL is the source of the generation of rugby players who will take the game to the next level. Football players spec well in terms of speed. size and strength, but remember the football player's world is a 3m x 3m grid where he reacts for to specific cues for 7 seconds and then takes a 30 second break. The specialization is mind numbing. Most teams have three specialist kickers (who play no other positions): to kick field goals, kick off and punt. During a game there are 15 guys with headsets telling 11 players what to do. There is absolutely no development of the broader mental awareness of space and possibilities necessary for a wide open continuous game like rugby. Also most football players do not handle or pass the ball so those skills are missing. Don't even get me started on the lack of foot-skills. I can't imagine a football refugee making the kick off his outstep that the French 10 did to put the weak side winger away v. Ireland.

The best rugby converts have come from basketball, soccer and wrestling."

Baumschulenweg:

The mighty Pauliner Marsch:

25jahre deutsche nationalmannschaft

ein guter artikel.

die deutsche rugby-frauen-nationalmannschaft hatte ihre erste internationale begegnung uebrigens erst 1989. gegen schweden wurde auf heimischem rasen 0:8 verloren.

alles weitere findet man hier: de.wikipedia.org