The Impact Of Globalization On Rugby
Rugby has been loved all over the world especially in South Africa but what has globalisation done to it, what has our world done to it, was the change good or bad?
Rugby is a team game where they have to get the ball to there enemies side. They can pass, kick or carry the ball to the other side. They have a poll that looks like a wishbone they can kick through and get a point.
How has globalisation changed the game?
Rugby was first invented on the fields in English public school in 1823. Rugby is a traditional game so traditional games are going to take time to change but it was until in 1995 after years of debating, that rugby was now a professional sport. When New Zealand’s all blacks won the 2011 Rugby World Cup with a narrow victory over an inspired France. The triumph follows 24 years of failure at the tournament by the world's consistently best team, laying their reputation as “chokers” to rest at last — at least when playing on home soil against the French. Rugby has always been a small sport until our world and community changed it from small to huge, so globalisation has changed rugby for the better to be the wonderful sport it is today.
As attention turns to the next tournament, in England and Wales in 2015, other, less noble, traditions endure. Despite rugby's recent pretensions to being a “world” game (the first World Cup was only held in 1987), the sport still remains a pretty closed shop at the top level. The list of teams that advanced beyond the tournament's pool stages went almost exactly according to script, featuring New Zealand, France, Australia, Wales, England, Ireland and South Africa. That things are tight at the top is not surprising, bearing in mind the resource gap between the top countries, where rugby is a professional game, and the have-nots, where amateurism still rules the day. But despite this, rugby's secondary powers — the “minnows” (as they tediously tend to be described) — hardly lack muscle. Many of their best players are sought out football-style by clubs in the bigger countries. Sometimes they even sign up for rival national teams — witness Manu Tuilagi, a Samoan, turning out for England while his brother played for Samoa, and Toby Faletau, who hails from Tonga but played for Wales in this year's World Cup.
