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Argentina Rugby Festival Tucuman 2006

Tucumán Rugby Club was the headquarter of the first edition of the Argentina Rugby Festival, an opportunity for cultural and sport interchange among young boys fron all over the world.

More than 300 boys from Southafrica, New Zealand, Venezuela, Formosa, Salta and Tucumán starred a weekend that will stay in their memories for a long time.

Highlights :

  • the sport level of Onehunga high school from New Zealand and of the teams from Tucumán.

  • the evening dinners, where the boys were set by two per team in each table, boys from New Zealand, Southafrica, Venezuela, Argentina, traing to understand each other without mindind the language difference

  • the evenings when they sang tipical songs from the each country, the Haka from New Zealand, the songs from Southafrica.

  • the rap show of the team members of Alcatraz, who also improvised singing with boys from New Zealand and Southafrica

  • the interesting stories of Alcatraz from Venezuela and of Aborígenes from Formosa

  • the top levell rugby clinic held by the New Zealand´s coach from the Auckland Union, Cornel Wolmarans

  • the story about the Aborigen Rugby club. Directed by it´s mentor Eduardo Rossi, who presented the film "La Quimera de los Héroes", starred by the Toba native indians team membres that was awarded in severall international films festivals. After the film, the team members gave their moving testimonies

  • the outfit that the boys from New Zealand wore durigng the photoshoot and the shirts specially made for this event by the boys of Universitario de Tucumán

  • the presentation of Proyecto Alcatraz. They have a story that stands out the values of rugby as a way turning people into better beings.

  • the trophys wone by the champions of each category, Universitario de Tucumán in under 18 and Jockey club de Tucumán in under 23.

  • the autographed jerseys of the Pumas Captain, Agustin Pichot, that were wone by the best players of the finals; Taani Valu from Onehunga High School from New Zealand (Under 18) and Jorge Chavanne from Jockey Club de Tucumán (Under 23).

  • the Tucuman girls were present each day of the tournament.

  • the giant pictures from each team, the pictures of the captains and the commemorative plates that each participant taem got as a gift.

  • the presence of the Tucuman main authorities, the Turism Secretary: Mercedes Paz; The Yerba Buena City Mayer: Roberto Martinez Zavalia; the president of Tucuman Rugby Union: Miguel Regginato; The president of Tucumán Rugby Club: Nicolas Avellaneda.

  • the support of top companies: Gatorade, Signia, Fargo, Movistar, Ole, and the presence of the main rugby media: Apichot.com, Rugby Time.com, Prematch Magazine and the TV Channel TyC Sports.

  • the support from the graphic a TV media from Tucumán during the 4 days of competition.

  • the parade with all the teams, each one with their country flags

  • the bonding and frienship made by all the boys in the tournament.

  • the Signia clothing, that was given as a gift every evening to best presentations

  • the tango show in the opening ceremony.

  • the event t-shirts, given by the event´s organization to each of the players and coaches.

  • the good music that everybody enjoyed during the competence

  • the karaoke show on Thursday with the outstanding performance of the boys from Tigres de Salta and Venezuela

  • the excellent levell of the referees, the best ones in Tucumán Rugby Union

  • the images shown in the wide screem during the dinners with the highlights of all the activities

  • the well made desition by the organization, that didn´t allow the boys to consume alcohol during the hole extention of the event. By any way this was a problem for the boys to have fun in all the activities.

  • the game levell of two skilled Onehunga´s backs , Taani Valu and Petelo Malakai, members of Auckland´s youht teams and probably All Blacks in the future.

  • the ID Cards that each player had, with their name, team and country, one of the souveniers that they cuold keep.

  • the excellent behavior of all the teams, inside and outside of the pitch.

  • the Florida Park´s (from Southafrica) show, singing and dancing on the stage with a Britney Spears song

  • the organization, the safety, the ambulantes, the audio on the fields

  • the finals on Sunday, Under 18 wone by Universitario de Tucumán by 26 to 21 against Onehunga High School from New Zealand; Under 23 wone by Jockey Club de Tucumán by 9 to 3 against Universitario de Tucumán.

  • the fact that Argentina rugby Festival will be held again in 2007, this time in tho different dates and headquarters: Buenos Aires and Cordoba