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2007 IRB Nations Cup
The 2007 IRB Nations Cup is the second edition of the international rugby union tournament, a competition created by the International Rugby Board. It pits the "A" Teams of the stronger (Tier 1) rugby nations (Argentina Jaguars, Emerging Springboks and Italy A) against some of the Tier 2 and 3 nations ( Romania, Namibia and Georgia). Originally scheduled to take place in the Tineretului Stadium, Bucharest, Romania, in the event the matches took place at the city's Stadionul Arcul de Triumf.IRB Match Reports on games played at Arcul de Triumf ofirst an days. Accessed: 15 June 2012 Argentina Jaguars were the defending champions, but the Emerging Springboks were the overall winners. The competition format was a modified round-robin whereby each team played 3 of the other 5 teams. The competition was played over three match days, with three matches played consecutively on each day. Final standings Results Round 1 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Round-robin Tournament
A round-robin tournament (or all-go-away-tournament) is a competition in which each contestant meets every other participant, usually in turn.''Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1971, G. & C. Merriam Co), p.1980. A round-robin contrasts with an elimination tournament, in which participants/teams are eliminated after a certain number of losses. Terminology The term ''round-robin'' is derived from the French term ''ruban'', meaning "ribbon". Over a long period of time, the term was corrupted and idiomized to ''robin''. In a ''single round-robin'' schedule, each participant plays every other participant once. If each participant plays all others twice, this is frequently called a ''double round-robin''. The term is rarely used when all participants play one another more than twice, and is never used when one participant plays others an unequal number of times (as is the case in almost all of the major United States professional s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern European Time
Eastern European Time (EET) is one of the names of UTC+02:00 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. The zone uses daylight saving time, so that it uses UTC+03:00 during the summer. A number of African countries use UTC+02:00 all year long, where it is called Central Africa Time (CAT), although Egypt and Libya also use the term ''Eastern European Time''. The most populous city in the Eastern European Time zone is Cairo, with the most populous EET city in Europe being Athens. Usage The following countries, parts of countries, and territories use Eastern European Time all year round: * Egypt, since 21 April 2015; used EEST ( UTC+02:00; UTC+03:00 with daylight saving time) from 1988–2010 and 16 May–26 September 2014. See also Egypt Standard Time. * Kaliningrad Oblast ( Russia), since 26 October 2014; also used EET in years 1945 and 1991–2011. See also Kaliningrad Time. * Libya, since 27 October 2013; switched from Central European Time, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marius Visser
Marius Visser (born 24 April 1982 in Walvis Bay) is a rugby union player for Namibia and the heaviest player at the 2007 Rugby World Cup The 2007 Rugby World Cup was the sixth Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. Twenty nations competed for the Webb Ellis Cup in the tournament, which was hosted by France from 7 September to 2 ... at 140 kilograms. While due to play for the Lyon team subsequent to the World Cup, he retired after the discovery of irreversible spinal problems.http://www.namibianrugby.com/ World Cup prop's career ended In 2009, he returned to the Namibian national team, apparently able to continue playing after earlier worries that injury ended his career. References External linksPlayer statistics 1982 births Living people Border Bulldogs players Namibia international rugby union players Namibian Afrikaner people Namibian people of Dutch descent Namibian rugby union players Rugby union playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merab Kvirikashvili
Merab "Meko" Kvirikashvili (born 27 December 1983) is a Georgian rugby union player. He started his career as a scrum-half but now plays as a fly-half and occasional fullback and is the all-time leading points scorer for the Georgia national rugby union team. He has also represented the Georgia national rugby league team and Georgia national rugby sevens team. Domestic career Kvirikashvili was born 27 December 1983, Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union. He left Georgia in 2006 for Pro D2 side Pau, and has since moved on to three other French clubs in Fédérale 1 in Massy, Figeac and most recently Saint-Junien where he joined after the 2011 World Cup and currently plays. He has not spent more than two seasons at one club during his stay in France. International career Kvirikashvili made his Georgia debut as a teenager in 2003 against Portugal, and made the squad for Georgia's first ever appearance in a World Cup later that year, playing in all four of Georgia's matches from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malkhaz Urjukashvili
Malkhaz Urjukashvili ( ka, მალხაზ ურჯუკაშვილი, born 24 September 1980 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian rugby union player. He plays as a wing. Career Urjukashvili moved to France, where he has been playing in Stade Toulousain, RC Nîmes, US Tours, in 2003, Rugby Club Cannes Mandelieu, from 2003/04 to 2006/07, in the Fédérale 2, Stade Aurillacois Cantal Auvergne, from 2007/08 to 2008/09, in the Rugby Pro D2, Groupe Sportife Figeacois, from 2009/10 to 2011/12, and SC Decazeville, since 2012/13, in the Fédérale 2. He is one of the best players and scorers for Georgia, holding currently 69 caps for his National Team, with 18 tries, 42 conversions, 41 penalties and 1 drop goal, in an aggregate of 313 points. His first match was a 29-15 win over Croatia, in Tbilisi, at 12 October 1997, aged only 17 years old. This made him one of the youngest players ever to be capped at international rugby level. He was called for the 2003 Rugby World Cup, playing three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mamuka Magrakvelidze
Mamuka Magrakvelidze (born 12 August 1977) is a Georgian rugby union player, currently playing in the French professional Pro D2, for the Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby club. He previously played for other French clubs, the Montpellier Hérault RC and the Racing Metro 92 Paris. Magrakvelidze is also an international player for the Georgia national team. Scrum.com He played for Georgia at the in France
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Victor Didebulidze
Victor Didebulidze (born 4 November 1971 in Tbilisi) is a former Georgian rugby union player. He played as a lock. Career Didebulidze first played rugby in Georgia, moving to Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby, in France, for the 1999–2000 season. He later played for Nîmes, Cannes, and Massy. He had 45 caps for Georgia, from 1991 to 2007, scoring 4 tries, 20 points in aggregate. He played at the 2003 Rugby World Cup, appearing in three games, and at the 2007 Rugby World Cup The 2007 Rugby World Cup was the sixth Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. Twenty nations competed for the Webb Ellis Cup in the tournament, which was hosted by France from 7 September to 2 ..., also appearing in three games, never scoring. He left the National Team after the competition, where he was one of the oldest players, aged 35. External links * 1971 births Living people Rugby union players from Georgia (country) Rugby union locks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stadionul Arcul De Triumf
Stadionul Naţional de Rugby Arcul de Triumf (''Triumphal Arch National Rugby Stadium'') is a multi-purpose stadium in Bucharest, Romania. Being constructed on the site of the former stadium, it will host major rugby matches including home matches of the Romania national rugby union team. It will also host games at the 2021 UEFA European Under-19 Championship. It is named after the nearby triumphal arch in Bucharest. Austria, France and Ukraine's squads were based at the stadium during preparation for and between matches at UEFA Euro 2020. The first sporting event held at the stadium was on 3 July 2021 when a rugby union crowd of 4,400 watched the summer internationals header, featuring Romania v Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, t ... and ended with a 17- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luciano Orquera
Luciano Orquera (born 12 October 1981 in Córdoba) is an Argentine-Italian rugby union player. He plays as a fly-half for Zebre, an Italian club in the Pro14. Rugby Union career Amateur career Born in Argentina of Italian descent, he first played at Club Palermo Bajo, in Córdoba. He moved to Mirano Rugby 1957 in 2002–03. He was assigned to Petrarca Padova Rugby in 2003–04, where he would stay the next two seasons. In 2016 he signed for the French amateur club Stade Niçois who play in Fédérale 2. Professional career Orquera then moved to France, playing the 2005–06 season at Auch and the next five seasons at Brive. He returned to Italy for the 2011–12 season, signing with Aironi. International career After becoming a naturalized Italian citizen, he was first called into the Italy squad that beat Canada by 51-6 at L'Aquila, on 6 November 2004. The next year he made his debut in the 2005 Six Nations Championship, playing five matches and scoring one try and one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Sepe
Michele Sepe (born 8 October 1986) is an Italian rugby union player. Sepe, who is a wing, plays club rugby for Fiamme Oro Rugby. He made his debut for Italy against Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ... on 11 June 2006. Biography Sepe began his career at Lazio, with whom he made his debut during the 2004–05 season. He subsequently moved to Capitolina of the Super 10 (now Top12) in 2005. He moved to Viadana in the summer of 2009. He spent one year at Viadana before moving to Benetton Treviso in June 2010.http://www.rugbylist.it/pipermail/rugbylist/2010-June/234891.html References 1986 births Living people Sportspeople from Rome Italian rugby union players Rugby union wings Benetton Rugby players Italy international rugby union players Fiamm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago Fernández (rugby Union)
Santiago Fernández (born 28 November 1985 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine rugby footballer currently playing for Bayonne after previously playing for another French club Montpellier and amateur side Hindu Club, although he was paid by the Argentine Rugby Union as one of their better home-based players. His preferred position is at fly-half, although he can also play at centre. A starlet for the age group teams in Argentina as well as the sevens team Fernandez has been capped at full team level and played at the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. Fernández replaced Felipe Contepomi in Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, t ...'s autumn tour in Europe. References External linksESPN Scrum Profile [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
