First things first. The best team in the tournament and as it happens in world rugby for the last two years, won the 2011 Rugby World Cup tournament!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In honoring this awesome team here is a little trivia of our current WORLD CHAMPIONS:
· Besides being the RWC Champions for 2011 the All Blacks are also the IRB’s Team of the Year!!!for a record FIFTH time ( 2005,2006, 2008, 2010 and now 2011)
· And it is not just luck that made them champions they are the leading point scorers of all time
· They are THE ONLY international rugby team with a record winning margin against every test nation they have EVER played.
· They held the top ranking in the world for longer than all the other countries combined!!!
· In over 100 years only five of the top twenty ranked test rugby nations have ever beaten New Zealand!!
· They have won over a record of 75% of all the matches they played since 1903.
· Mr. Captain Richie McCaw is the IRB’s Player of the year for the THIRD time ( another record under their belt)
· FIFTEEN former All Blacks have been conducted into the international RUGBY HALL OF FAME
· FIFTEEN former All Blacks have been conducted into the international RUGBY HALL OF FAME
· They won the tri-nations ten times in its sixteen years of existence ( playing against South Africa and Australia).
New Zealand holds several World Cup records:
· most World Cup Matches : they played 43 matches altogether
· most points in one match (145 versus Japan in 1995),
· most cumulative points over all World Cups (2,012),
· most tries overall (272),
· And most conversions (198).
· Several individual players also hold World Cup records;
-Jonah Lomu for most World Cup tries (15 over two World Cups),
- The most appearances held by Sean Fitzpatrick (17 from 1987 to 1995),
-Marc Ellis with most tries in a match (6 versus Japan in 1995)
- Grant Fox with most points in one tournament (126 in 1987),
- Simon Culhane with most points in a single game (45 versus Japan in 1995)
New Zealand has the best record of all teams in the World Cup having a record of 2 (1st), 1 (2nd), 2 (3rd), 1 (4th). New Zealand are the only team to top their pool in every World Cup so far and not to lose a pool match.
And now for the most fantabulous part of the All Black Team: THE HAKA!!
Many critics and supporters and other teams have had a lot to say about the HAKA ever since it started in 1884, but most of them do not even know the story behind the HAKA and I think it's about time you get informed so read well!!!!
It is a traditional ancestral war cry, dance or challenge from the Māori people of New Zealand. It is a posture dance performed by a group, with vigorous movements and stamping of the feet with rhythmically shouted accompaniment.
It represents the traditions of the people living in New Zealand and by adding it to their game the All Black team shows their respect for tradition. But the HAKA is not that well received by everyone…
In November 2006, at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, New Zealand performed the HAKA in the dressing room prior to the match – instead of on the field immediately before kick-off – after a disagreement with the Welsh Rugby Union, which had wanted Wales to sing their national anthem after the HAKA
In 2008, New Zealand played Munster at Thomond Park. Before the match, Munster's four New Zealanders challenged New Zealand by performing a HAKA before the All Blacks started theirs.
On the same tour, Wales responded by silently refusing to move after New Zealand's HAKA, and the two teams simply stared at each other until the referee forced them to start the game.
Well this is the basics of the team, and to all the haters.. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH SHAME MAN!!!!!
Well peace out!!!
GO ALL BLACKS!!!
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