Going me, going me, trying to get back to the heyday: Portugal has five games to return to a Rugby World Cup
The continuous embrace they share is a fortress, the bodies just don’t merge because of the impossible of physics and they unite, glued to each other, while screaming. Some close the handle of putting on their nightgown, others close their eyes, they have tributaries in the face of the river of tears that everyone is and only a few close, but they scream. It’s a Portuguese shouting one sing ‘A Portuguesa’ in Saint-Étienne, at the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium, where they lined up in tears to sing the national anthem in the first game in Portugal’s history in the Rugby World Cup.
In 2007, still in 2007, the equipment was manufactured in the thick and heavy fabrics tournament, when professionals selected thick and heavy fabrics, lawyers or university students took their amateurism to France, where they scored 38 and four trials . Little is said about gains in defeats, it seems sacrilegious, but there can be victories in them and Portugal’s debut in World Championships and even the ball that Rui Cordeiro touched in the New Zealanders’ practice area, with whom the Portuguese still had a relaxed soccer ball on the pitch, after the expected dismantling by 108-13 in the oval duel.
The team has reached the only world championship in history after years without indicating goals to several, from people and with a series of consecutive years ab, modality in which it will reach the main tournament without having been before is a see if you edition avias: in anyone in the world, there are 12 selections (the top two in each group) that guarantee qualification for the next competition. Then comes the context in which Portugal comes up against.
The team was no longer present at World Cups because, in each qualifying cycle, it competes against countries that dedicate different attention to rugby. Sheltered by this umbrella word are the governmental infrastructures built, the captive sponsors and everything else that is necessary for a sport to break out of the amateurism in which Portugal is still. But, years after the 2007 adventure, the national team once again has a generation that will be able to flirt with qualification for the World Cup.
Qualification phases | Games / Wins | points scored | control points |
2011 | 10/05 | 255 | 149 |
2015 | 2/10 | 145 | 222 |
2019 | 5/5 | 179 | 37 |
The second part of the journey towards the 2023 edition, which will again be in France, starts this Sunday and Portugal against Georgia (11 am, RTP Play), a team that for years has been said to be where it does not belong — among more backward nations, that will tickle you more than pinches, without resources close to the Georgians for whom it is common to go early to play for the French first division, for example.
After facing the power of the east, duels with Romania, the Netherlands, Spain and Russia will follow. The national team is still tied with the Romanians in the 2nd position that goes straight to the World Cup, there will also be the possibility of ending up in the place just below, equivalent to the repechage for the mini-tournament, with teams from other continents, where who will be with the final spot in the World Championship. Since Portugal was no longer confirmed, when the fact remained: Portugal was no longer confirmed, for 2010, for 2010. lost in a Pay which gave access to the final repechage tournament.
To get closer to the best fortune, Portugal will now have to “win four games”, summing up Patrice Lagisquet. “Perhaps they are enough, but travel is impossible to know,” added the team since 2019, speaking before three teams from whom it is impossible for Georgia.
The French coach works with a fruitful generation, coming largely from the seeds that began to germinate at the end of the previous decade, when the names based on the series without big ones gave their still and without big team in his face: the under-20 team they were three-time European champions between 2017 and 2019, the same years in which they lost two World Rugby Trophy finals, a kind of World B, against Japan.
Tomás Appleton, Tomás, Appleton, captain, there is a captain, seen playing the anthem in 2 names07, or the winger to give Miguel’s son, captain Lima, who intends to play in the views of the national team that captain Storti played, for example in November when they lost 25-38. “That the majority can happen of the level that exhibited, many times, make mistakes and make mistakes, but it will probably make the incident in the many Caldas da Rainha. Even the buzz of public interest seems to be resurrected.
With all the already incredible 2007 generation of the world in the rooms of the reform of the râguea, the new names of the world back what the Portuguese are returning to the country to a world that will arrive, probably, and if it arrives there, it should be again a single amateur selection in competition. And the set of players who will sing an anthem as if their lives depended on it.