Linking to team mates and team spirit is the sense of
community that can be achieved through rugby. Examples can be found from local
school based projects all the way up to aiding global issues. As long as I can remember
I have read literature handed out in magazine form from local authorities
attempts through various sports, particularly rugby, in engaging children and
teaching them the advantages of the game. This incorporates school teachers,
parents and coaches helping giving children something to enjoy after the school
day. Rugby is ideal for this, tag rugby especially, there’s running, catching
and talking which are all part of this, things that children quite obviously
enjoy.
I attach here a short video not simply on rugby, but what
rugby is a part of with regards to SportWales.
On a larger scale, there is a famous example of rugby being
used as a device for uniting a country dogged by apartheid and racial conflict.
South Africa hosted the 1995 World Cup, with Nelson Mandela
recently being released after 29 years imprisonment on Robben Island, and had
been elected Primeminister. However, there were still great problems within the
country, but during the 1995 World Cup competition these problems seemed to be
disbanded as the country ended up victorious culminating in the legendary image
of Mandela himself presenting the victorious captain with the trophy. An
incredible moment in that nation’s history, it was during this time they were
knicknamed the ‘Rainbow Nation’.
I have also attached an article on the topic.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/books/3485199/Story-of-Nelson-Mandela-and-1995-Rugby-World-Cup-favourite-for-sports-book-award-Rugby-Union.html
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