"Chile's Condors make history: Qualifying for their first Rugby World Cup in 2022"

2023-05-22 23:40:22

On July 16, 2022, the condors they made history for Chilean sport. The XV national rugby team beat the United States in a great match, in Denver, and qualified for the first time in an adult World Cup of discipline.

Now, Chile is fine-tuning the details to face from September 8 to October 28 of this year the maximum appointment in Francewhere they will play England, Argentina, Japan and Samoa in Group D.

A little less than four months before the World Cup, the captain of the team led by Pablo Lemoine emphasized a key moment in the preparation, specifically at the time of train with the Marine Corps in Talcahuanoprior to the decisive clash with the Americans.

Martin Sigren told Radio that “one of the key parts of the preparation was when nThey sent you to Talcahuano for a week with the Marines, to strengthen the mental part. The qualifying matches are 60% head and the rest physical. The management of pressure and wanting more than the one in front ”.

“They gave us a little course in how to prepare. We were passing physical tests, which demanded mostly the part of the head (mental), and constantly listening to the united states anthem, like trigger, the rival”, he added.

Later, the Chilean third line reported that “every time we were doing something good They played us the (national) anthem as a prize. one will understand the patriot of a marine and they infected us with all that madness that they have to arrive as a soldier to the match”.

Finally, Chile surprised by 31-29 to the ‘Águilas’ at the Infinity Park Stadium, after losing by 19-0. Huge national task.

Lastly, when asked about other factors as to why Chile qualified for the World Cup on French soil, Sigren said that “many factors align. First the arrival of a new coach: Pablo Lemoine, Uruguayan, who came to propose a high-performance structure to the players, where a select group of players began to train as professionals, unpaid”.

“Then the region began to arm itself a bit. arrives the first professional tournament in South America2020 arrives the SLA -the first professional South American tournament- that gives us more matches… In this tournament we were the same as the national team and we spent three years together, forming a good teamand to this is added the factor of talent and the desire that we had to want to change history,” he said.