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Japan stunned Tonga in the IRB Pacific Nations Cup, beating the islanders 35-13 at Sendai City's Yurtec Stadium for their first victory in the tournament.
This result is also a very inspiring result for Korea because Tonga is the country we have to beat in order to participate in the RWC.
Up until now Japan has been the only participating country representing Asia, and Korea always had a play-off against Tonga to take the repechage place but never succeed yet.
Here is another inspiring result. In 2000 U-19 Rugby World Championship, the Korea U-19 team made its maiden debut in the international stage for fifteens rugby. They beat the Czech Republic, Poland, and Tonga but lost to Samoa at the final of the B-group(low 16 ranking team). Although we lost the final match, people there were totally shocked due to the unexpected result and because they only saw the Korean sevens team before.
Most of the U-19 members are now playing for Korea.
If we keep striving hard to work on our development program, our dream for the RWC will come true soon!
2 comments:
can anyone read the franch news article and tell me what it says? :)
it's difficult to read properly, but i will try my best:
Korea wins hearts:
eyes of chimene (crying or wet eyes?)
Koreans didn't win only christian Garrigues heart. The "Louhannais" had the eyes of chimene for this tonic, fast and determined players who gave some terrifying tackle and whose scrum was torturing their opposite always on the defensive.
They needed all of their courage and an engagement of all instant for the eastern player not to give away the match after 10 minutes of hell at the hand of the Asians.
Which qualified without problems for the semi-finals, getting by the occasion access to the groupe A.
The public liked them even more because even after their animated match, they were very correct to their opponent and exquisitely polite to the almost 500 people who came to see them under the rain.
The following is a resume of the last part:
just repeating that the koreans have been extremely polite with the people who came to see them, their opponent and each others.
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