Rugby es one of the most popular sports in
England. England´s team plays in the 6-nations cup, which means that England´s
team is in the elite. Meanwhile …. this sport in nearly estingushed in Spain . I
am one of those rare Spanish rugby playes. Furthermore, I am a girl. That means that it is really hard to find
other girls to play with. Let's say Rugby is not seen as a very femenine
sport, and it is quite impopular. After some years, our team, Ingenieros de
Soria, has reached our goal; to createm a femenine team. After all, we have
created two teams, one for senior players and another one for girls under age.
We are more than twenty girls ready to play our favorite and unpopular sport.
Now, the most dificult thing is to find girls and teams to fight with. We play in the Aragon League of Rugby, but
there are only there teams so we can barely play matches.
Although there are barely any
teams to play with, we have managed to play some matches. On December we played against Fénix in Zaragoza, on their pitch. But last
Saturday we played in our home, in Soria,
in “Los Pajaritos” in our pitch. We were ready to win; we had been preparing
for that match for ages.
It was raining. We played in a
grass pitch. It was full of mud. It was cold. Freezing cold. We fought an we won.
After all we wan. This twenty girls who prefer studs and rugby balls to heels. These twenty girls that tried to practise a very unpopular sport have won a match. And we will try to make it popular; this, our beatiful, favorite, noble and femenine sport.
-“Good night, my little princess with studs”
And my dreams come …..., as a victory over the Fénix girls. Understanding that Rugby is a worderful sport. Just like English people say.
first of all I got to say that the rest of girls that don't play rugby are not necessarly to be princesses. There are more sports that usually are thought to be for men and also women practuse it in a higher number
ReplyDeleteThe problem of all these, I think is that the only sport that can be played withot having any kind of problem is football. Therefore, it is not so easy to find a team of another sport in Spain, where all spins around football and more football. I like football, but my opinion is that there are more sports that can be entertaining for a group of people although this sport is not a contact sport.
ReplyDeleteFirstly, I love people taht follow their dreams and in this case I admire the blogger because she is fighting for her dream, a really difficult one.Secondly, I agree with Victor. In our society football is overvalued because it gives a lot of profit to the people who rules in those areas. Consequently, other sports like rugby have it more difficult to achieve success. Not to mention femenine teams.All in all, I wish you good luck for all your matches , I want you to keep going with your dream because it is fantastic and try to publish some advertisement to créate new femenine teams. If you fight for it yo will get it.
ReplyDeleteIt is very interesting to read and learn about different sports from football, because nowadays football is like the only important sport and the rest have almost any importance. After reading this post, I have a lot of interest in knowing more about this modality, because I think it is one of the most difficult sports that nowadays we know about, and it must be very tiring and difficult to play it. How many hours do you train each week?
ReplyDeleteThanks and good luck for your team.
I think it is incredible that, like my partners have alredy said, few sports in our city and in our country are recognised and that the blogger and their team have been fighting a lot only for founding other teams that could play agains them although in other countries like Wales, is one of the most recognised sports. Finally, I want to ask the author of this post if is she affected of how people would criticize her for playing a sport that is think to be played by boys.
ReplyDeleteContinue showing us that girls can also play rugby
I admire those girls who have fought until the moment they have reached their goals. Unfortunately, the truth is that the feminine teams of sports which are played by both, women and men, are not as known as masculine teams, and this is something very awful. Women train, women work hard and play with the same spirit as men.
ReplyDeleteEven though I agree with that, I don´t do it with the part that says "this twenty girls who prefer studs and rugby balls to heels." because not all the girls like heels, and the girls which use heels, make themselves up or for example do rhythmic gymnastics, also study and they aren´t worse than the ones that play rugby.