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Rugby World Cup 2011 will be a chance for New Zealanders to host the world’s greatest Rugby event right here in our own backyard, but an army of volunteers is needed to get involved and help make the Tournament a success!

Those wishing to volunteer are encouraged to get their registration in by Friday September 24.


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All Black legend Michael Jones is driving recruitment for the Volunteer Programme as the official Rugby World Cup 2011 Volunteer Ambassador. He knows a bit about Rugby World Cups, he was a member of the World Champion New Zealand side in 1987, and scored the first try of the Tournament.





“It’s a fantastic event and just keeps getting bigger every four years. Next year Rugby World Cup 2011 will be the biggest sports event of the year so we need plenty of passionate New Zealanders to make it happen.

“This will not only be a great sporting occasion but also as a chance for us to showcase the best of our country on the international stage so it’s a tremendous opportunity for anyone who is motivated to make a real difference to the success of this Tournament.

“This is a massive event, bigger than anything New Zealand has seen so we need plenty of help – no sporting event of this size can do without an army of volunteers.”

A team of more than 5,000 volunteers will provide the hands and feet needed to run the tournament in areas ranging from transport and accommodation to media and ceremonies.

“There are Kiwis across the country who can make a huge difference to this Tournament. Whether they are helping out behind the scenes, at the stadiums or welcoming visitors out on the streets, we need people with a range of different skills and qualities.

A lot of these volunteers will be an important point of contact. They will be very much representatives, ambassadors of everything that is good about New Zealand and about being Kiwis,”

Rugby World Cup 2011 kick-off times announced

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Rugby World Cup 2011 (RWC 2011) today marked another milestone with the announcement of kick-off times for Rugby's most prestigious event.

The announcement comes after the opening of applications for Individual Match Tickets as fans around the world look to book their place at the world's third largest sporting event.

"We have achieved a good balance." said Martin Snedden, CEO for Tournament Organisers Rugby New Zealand 2011. "If New Zealand is to make the most of the platform RWC 2011 gives us to showcase our country to the world, then we need to ensure we maximise the global television audience for key matches.

"What has now been agreed with event-owner Rugby World Cup Ltd (RWCL) will help all hosting regions to promote themselves to the world and help fans, both domestic and international, to get on with planning their RWC 2011 experience with the start of the Tournament now less than a year away.

"The mix of match times should really contribute to the whole festival atmosphere of the Tournament. Ten of the 48 matches will be played in the afternoon including the New Zealand v Canada pool match. A further 12 matches will begin by 6pm and another seven at 7.30pm."

Eden Park, the scene of the venue for the inaugural RWC Final in 1987, will herald a nationwide six week celebration of world-class Rugby and REAL New Zealand Festival events when it hosts the Opening Ceremony on Friday, September 9 starting at approximately 7.30pm. The Opening Match between New Zealand and Tonga will kick-off at 8.30pm.

The Tournament will culminate in Auckland at the redeveloped Eden Park with the semi-finals and Final. The kick-off time for these matches was confirmed at 9.00pm when the Match Schedule was announced in March 2009.

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"Today's announcement represents another significant milestone for Tournament planning and preparation," said RWCL Tournament Director Kit McConnell.

"With applications for individual match tickets having opened, this is a very exciting time for New Zealanders and the global Rugby family alike.

"RWC 2011 will be a special Tournament that global Rugby can be proud of. Those who go to New Zealand will see an irresistible mix of matches, live sites, festival activities and the best of Kiwi hospitality. We are all counting down the days to Rugby's showcase event."

Uruguay and Romania target final RWC place


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The Webb Ellis Cup will make two crucial visits in the next couple of weeks as silent witness to the final two matches of the long qualifying road that will lead to Rugby World Cup 2011 in New Zealand.

It has already arrived for the first time in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo for the South American leg of a play-off between Uruguay and Romania to determine who becomes the 20th and final qualifier for RWC 2011. A visit to Bucharest for the 27 November return leg than awaits.

This home and away play-off represents the last two matches of a qualification process that began in Grand Cayman on 20 April 2008 and has already seen Canada, Samoa, USA, Namibia, Georgia, Russia and Japan emerge from it to book their tickets to New Zealand.

A total of 184 matches will have been played in total, involving 80 nations across five continents. The European process involved the most with 31 nations playing in 95, while Oceania – the last region to get underway – only had five teams playing a total of five matches.

The end is near and after the two matches between Los Teros and The Oaks, the team with the highest aggregate score will secure a place in Pool B alongside Argentina, England, Scotland and Georgia.

The first match, to take place at the Charrúa Stadium in the leafy suburb of Carrasco on Saturday, will be played exactly 300 days from the start of what promises to be a wonderful tournament on the back of RWC 2007, which was the most successful Rugby World Cup to date, becoming the world's third-biggest sporting event and reaching a global TV audience of four billion.

Proud home record

“I am very aware of how important it is to be involved in a Rugby World Cup, and Romania is really keen on ensuring they are there,” said former captain and current coach Romeo Gontineac. A veteran of four RWCs as player – 1995, 1999, 2003 and 2007 – he adds that “it is very important for our youth, our Union plans and the future that we are there.”

Gontineac has brought with him to South America – Romania spent four days in Buenos Aires before crossing the River Plate – a powerful and experienced squad. His forwards’ coach is none other than Steve McDowall, who propped the All Blacks scrum in the first ever Rugby World Cup as New Zealand were crowned the first champions.

Uruguay, though, hope to bank on their home advantage. Only three players in the match-day 22 have been to a Rugby World Cup before. Pablo Lemoine and Nicolás Brignoni were instrumental in 1999 and 2003, while Emiliano Caffera was a scrum half in the latter. Lemoine and Caffera will be used from the bench on Saturday.

“We are coming to the end of a very enjoyable and busy year,” explained Uruguay head coach Gonzalo Camardón, a former Puma back who played for Argentina in the 1991 and 1999 tournaments, missing 1995 through injury.

“We have played 14 games taking into account a Cross-Border tournament, the South American Championship, the Churchill Cup, the previous Repechage round [against Kazakhstan] and friendlies. We are match ready and very anxious.”

Camardón, who moved to Uruguay after a long stint in Italian rugby, was asked to help Los Teros and is doing it ad honorem. “It is a real challenge,” he admitted.

Best memory ever

Captain Carlos Arboleya acknowledges that the arrival of Camardón has been very positive for his side. “He is very clear with his message; we are playing modern rugby and we are ready. We have pressure on our backs because we are playing at home.”

Arboleya was unaware of the great RWC home record of his nation. “We’ve only lost three times in Uruguay? I’ll use that to motivate the team,” he said after finding out that Los Teros’ only losses in RWC qualifying games on home soil were to Argentina (1993) and USA (2006 & 2009).

The two sides have met only twice before with Romania emerging victorious on both occasions, but by slight margins. Both games were at the IRB Nations Cup in Bucharest – 10-6 in 2008 and 17-11 last year.

“I don’t want to be in the team that does not qualify for a Rugby World Cup; I’ve been telling the younger players that going to one is the best memory they will ever have,” insists his Romania counterpart Sorin Socol, the 33-year-old who is hoping to play in his third tournament.

“We have worked very hard. Made many sacrifices and we want to qualify.”

Both teams acknowledge that it is one game at a time and that they are ready for the challenge. Rugby World Cup 2011 is 160 minutes away from knowing who the final participant will be.

New Zealand's biggest festival keeps growing

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New Zealand will celebrate its role as host of RWC 2011 by staging the biggest nationwide festival the country has ever seen...

The REAL New Zealand Festival will run from September 9 to October 23, and will complement the match and team hosting schedule for RWC 2011. But it will go well beyond the 23 centres hosting teams and matches, and will include every part of the country.

Festival Director, Briony Ellis, says the Festival will include events and attractions all over the country which showcase New Zealand’s arts, food and wine, heritage, culture, entertainment, industries and business, experiences and lifestyle – including our abiding passion for Rugby.

“We’ve called it ‘REAL’ because the programme for the festival celebrates the aspects of living in New Zealand that Kiwis are most proud of – the experiences that present the real New Zealand, and events that showcase our people, landscapes, languages, culture and stories”.

“There’ll be plenty of time between matches so we want to encourage people to take the long way around from one match to the next and really see the country and meet the people.”

Since its launch in September, the REAL New Zealand Festival has gone from strength to strength. Today there are over 300 events and experiences on the website (www.realnzfestival.com), and by Tournament time around a thousand events will be available for visitors, and New Zealanders to sample across the country.

An injection of NZD$9.48 million of Lottery Grants Board funding has helped to provide more festival experiences in more regions, and announcements of those new events will be made in the New Year.

Last week, Tournament Organisers revealed some valuable research into our international visitors. An expected 85,000 visitors will stay, on average, for 23 days, giving them plenty of time to see and experience New Zealand on their way from match to match.

“The Festival will give those international visitors hundreds of reasons to take the long way round as they travel around the country," said Briony Ellis. They’ll be able to experience the real New Zealand, by getting into the heart of the country and experiencing the Festival wherever it takes them.

“It also means that New Zealanders everywhere can get involved in RWC 2011 and show our visitors why we love to live, work and play here.”

It has been a huge year for festival organisers, and there’s no sign of slowing in 2011. The festival programme is continually changing and updating, and can be found at rugbyworldcuplive2011.blogspot.com


The road to Rugby World Cup 2011

There will be a new nation competing alongside the game’s traditional heavyweights for the Webb Ellis Cup in New Zealand after Russia successfully qualified for a Rugby World Cup for the first time in their short history as a distinct union.

The Rugby Union of Russia was only established in 1992 following the break-up of the old Soviet Union and just 18 years later, the Bears were celebrating booking a place at RWC 2011 after an historic 21-21 draw with Romania in Sochi on 27 February 2010.

The draw meant Russia were guaranteed a top two finish in the European Nations Cup and one of the region’s two qualification places at RWC 2011. However, it would be another three weeks before they knew they would enter Pool C with Australia, Ireland, Italy and USA, their first opponents at Stadium Taranaki in New Plymouth on 15 September 2011.

“To qualify for the Rugby World Cup is absolutely enormous for us,” said Howard Thomas, the RUR’s Chief Executive. “To get across the line in the European Nations Cup I would say is the hardest route to qualify for Tier Two countries. We have a very competitive league with the likes of Georgia, Romania and Portugal and I’m proud of the players and everyone involved.

“Having said that we know we have to step up enormously. We look at the last World Cup and see how well Georgia did, and obviously Portugal and Romania had their moments and also Namibia. In all the games you play you want to make it a competitive game of rugby. We want to make sure that our defence is up for it, physically we’re up for it and fitness-wise we’re up for it.”

Wing Alexander Gvozdovskiy was the hero for Russia with two tries against Romania. Yury Kushnarev converted one of them and also landed three penalties in the 21-21 stalemate that ensured the qualification.

Realisation dawns for Russia

“For me this is probably the top of my dreams, to play for my country, my national team and to qualify for the World Cup," admitted wing Vasily Artemyev after the team had earned qualification. “It was a very tough emotional task for the players to play a match at such a high level of expectation as we did against Romania, and to be honest after the final whistle went I felt a bit emptied out.

“Then a couple of days after that the achievement that we’d made started to sink in. It’s only now that we’ve started really talking about it as a team that we understand fully what we have achieved with that result.”

From Europe, the Russians were joined by Georgia in qualifying for the finals on the same weekend after they beat Spain 17-9 at the National Stadium in Tbilisi. It was the Lelos’ seventh victory in their previous eight European Nations Cup matches and guaranteed them a third consecutive World Cup appearance.

“Though I am not Georgian, I understand perfectly well how the Georgians must feel now and share with them the excitement any local rugby supporter must experience now that the national team has won its third World Cup ticket in a row and that the word ‘Georgia’ will resound on the international stage once again,” said former Wallaby centre Tim Lane, who has seen been replaced by Richie Dixon as Georgia coach.

“It was our goal to bring Georgia to the Rugby World Cup again and I am really happy that this goal has been achieved. Now our goal as a team is to make a worthy appearance at the finals.”

The final day meeting between Georgia and Russia would not only decide the ENC champion, but also who qualified as Europe 1 and 2 for RWC 2011. Georgia claimed the title after triumphing 36-8 and, in the process, booked their place in Pool B at RWC 2011 with Argentina, England, Scotland and the Play-off Winner.



The title decider was played in the Akçabaat Fatih Stadium in Trabzon, Turkey, but some 6,000 Georgian fans were still in attendance to see their side run in five tries to one. The match, despite political tensions between the two countries following the brief war of 2008, was played in an excellent spirit.

“For Georgian rugby, another World Cup appearance means a big surge in popularity,” explained second row Ilia Zedginidze, who captained Georgia at RWC 2007 in France. “It will bring a fresh wave of children and teenagers into youth rugby teams, another boost for development, another chance to go forward. And as regards myself, I am happy to be a part of this process and grateful to everyone who supports us on our way.”

Away from Europe, Canada became the first of the eight teams who did not pre-qualify to confirm their place at RWC 2011 after beating old rivals USA in a home and away play-off in July 2009.

Canada, who have appeared at every Rugby World Cup, lost the first leg 12-6 in Charleston but made the most of home advantage in Edmonton seven days later with a 41-18 victory that gave them a 47-30 aggregate triumph.

James Pritchard, Adam Kleeberger and Justin Mensah-Coker all scored tries in the first half at Ellerslie Rugby Park to establish Canadian supremacy and, despite a revival from the Eagles after the break, further scores from Ed Fairhurst and DTH van der Merwe secured the all-important win.

“There was a lot on this game and we let ourselves down last week,” admitted Canada coach Kieran Crowley. “We didn’t turn up in the first match and we wanted to put things right. It’s been a long week waiting for this game, so we’re pretty happy.

“We didn’t create a lot in the first half but we lived off their turnovers, which was great, and then we went for a long period in the second half with no ball but we made them pay a couple of times and were able to keep that little bit in front.”

Victory confirmed Canada’s place in Pool A alongside hosts New Zealand, France, Tonga and the Asian qualifier, which nearly a year later was confirmed as Japan, a side they drew 12-12 with at RWC 2007 in France.




The Samoans joined the party a week later. In truth, there was little doubt about their involvement after they had overwhelmed Papua New Guinea 115-7 in Apia in the first leg of their Oceania qualifier, and they rubber stamped their progress to RWC 2011 in the return game in Port Moresby with a 72-13 win, including a hat-trick from wing Mikaele Pesamino.

“They were a lot harder in front of their home crowd,” admitted Samoa captain Gavin Williams after the final whistle. “If they can improve that much in the space of a week, then PNG rugby is heading the right way forward.”

Samoa’s reward for their efforts was a place in Pool D alongside South Africa, Wales, Fiji and Namibia, who were duly confirmed as the Africa 1 qualifier in November 2009.

The same month, the USA were presented with a chance to redeem themselves after losing to Canada and they did not disappoint at the second time of asking as Eddie O’Sullivan’s side overcame Uruguay to become the Americas 2 qualifier.

The Eagles had narrowly beaten Los Teros 27-22 – surviving a late Uruguayan rally – in the first leg, but were far more convincing in the second at Broward County Regional Park in Lauderhill, Florida.

Louis Stanfill and Kevin Swiryn scored first half tries for the home side to ease any early nerves and when captain Todd Clever crashed over for his two scores after the break, the USA were home and dry with the 27-6 win giving the Eagles a 54-28 aggregate success.

Namibia seal African spot

“I was very happy with our defence,” O’Sullivan said. “It went very well today. We scrummaged better and stopped their rolling maul, which were the two parts of the game that we needed to improve from last week. I feel happy with the way we finished, although Uruguay made us work for it.

“It’s tough to hit the ground running after not being together since July, and although we qualified, which was our ultimate goal, they were a little rusty early on. I can’t be too hard on them, though, they got the job done and you can’t forget that we scored eight tries in the last two games.”

Namibia then became the fourth team to confirm their place at New Zealand 2011. Tunisia stood between them and a World Cup place but over two legs the Welwitschias proved the stronger and emerged 40-23 aggregate winners.

A tight 18-13 triumph for Namibia in Tunis in the first leg left the outcome hanging in the balance, but a fortnight later they proved too strong for their visitors as they battled their way to a crucial 22-10 victory in Windhoek.

Tunisia began the encounter the more confident looking side and scored the first try through wing Abbes Kherfani, while Namibia had to rely on the boot of fly half Emile Wessels to keep them in contention.

The critical score for the hosts, however, came on the hour when number 8 Tinus du Plessis crashed over in the Hage Geingob Rugby Stadium, and when the final whistle sounded, the Welwitschias were through and could look forward to a match with defending champions South Africa in Pool D.



In May 2010, Japan were confirmed as the 19th of the 20 nations who will converge on New Zealand after winning a third successive HSBC Asian 5 Nations title, overcoming the challenge of Kazakhstan, Hong Kong, Arabian Gulf and Korea.

Coached by former All Black wing John Kirwan, the Brave Blossoms were in dominant form throughout the competition and began their season with a 71-13 win over Korea. The Japanese never looked back and signed off with a 94-5 victory over Hong Kong in the Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium in Tokyo.

The qualification maintained Japan’s proud record of appearing in every Rugby World Cup and sent them through to Pool A to face the All Blacks, France, Tonga and Canada.

“Every Rugby World Cup is special for the athletes,” said Kirwan after a qualifying campaign which saw his side score an incredible 326 points in four games. “If we perform well in New Zealand and give it our best effort we will have a great time.

“I think for Japan it is also an opportunity for us to measure our improvement. We drew with Canada in 2007 and will be looking for a win this time around. I want to show the world how much we have improved and I hope we have the courage to play our style of rugby.

“Our goal is to be first a top 10 team at the World Cup in 2011, then top eight by 2015. Canada and Tonga will be important matches and if we can win these two games, then we automatically qualify for 2015.

“We are hoping to get great support from the Japanese fans travelling to New Zealand. It is a popular destination for Japanese tourists and I am sure they will be encouraged by the added motivation of cheering on their team.”



The final qualifier would be determined by a cross-continental play-off involving Romania, Uruguay, Tunisia and Kazakhstan. The dreams of a first ever appearance for Tunisia and Kazakhstan came to an end in July 2010 with defeats by Romania (56-13) and Uruguay (44-7).

Four months later, Uruguay and Romania duly locked horns with the prize of a place at RWC 2011 awaiting the victor over two legs. A Hollywood director could not have written a better script with the first leg, in Montevideo on 13 November, ending all square after hosts Uruguay fought back to draw 21-21.

The 184th and final match of a qualification process which had begun in Grand Cayman on 20 April 2008 and involved 80 nations across five continents was therefore a tense affair at the stadionul National Arcul de Triumf in Bucharest a fortnight later, a partisan sell-out crowd eager to see Romania triumph.

They got their wish with the experience of Romania ultimately proving too much for a young Uruguayan outfit with tries from Csaba Gal, Alexandru Manta, Catalin Fercu and Madalin Lemnaru securing a 39-12 win and a place alongside Argentina, England, Scotland and Georgia in Pool B.

“I feel like I am flying now, it feels very good,” admitted coach Romeo Gontineac, a veteran of four Rugby World Cups as a player. “It is a hard job that we start now, the hardest job starts now. We will try to construct a very competitive team for the World Cup.”

A statement that the coaches of Canada, Samoa, USA, Namibia, Georgia, Russia and Japan would echo after safely negotiating the qualification road to New Zealand.