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2006 IRB Nations Cup
The 2006 IRB Nations Cup was the first 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 and Italy A) against some of the Tier 2 and 3 nations (Romania and Russia).See List of international rugby union teams#National teams - tier classification for more information on the Tiers. The tournament took place between 13 and 24 June at Estádio Universitário in Lisbon, Portugal. Argentina Jaguars were the overall winners. The competition format was a round-robin whereby each team played each of the other 3 teams once. The competition was played over three match days, with two 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 Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, indiv ... 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 Folk etymology, 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 freque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esteban Lozada
Esteban Lozada (born January 8, 1982, in Belgium) is a former Argentine rugby union player who last played for English team London Wasps in the Aviva Premiership. He also played for the Argentina national team and was part of 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 ... squad. He debuted with "Los Pumas" on November 11, 2006. Weighing 110 kg (242 lbs), he stands 1.94m tall (6 ft 4in) and his position is lock. In May 2014 Lozada announced his retirement from Rugby. References External linksUAR profile {{DEFAULTSORT:Lozada, Esteban [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Ignacio Gauthier
Juan Ignacio Gauthier (born March 3, 1982, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine rugby union footballer who plays at fullback. He had 2 caps for Argentina national rugby union team, in 2008, and scored 3 tries, 15 points on aggregate. He played for Hindú Club and currently plays for Rome. References External linksAt scrum.com See also *Argentina national rugby union team
The Argentina national rugby union team (Spanish: ''Selección de rugby de Argentina'') represents Argentina in men's international rugb ...
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Augusto Petrelli
Augusto is an Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish given name or surname. Notable people with the name include: *Augusto Aníbal *Augusto dos Anjos * Augusto Arbizo *Augusto Barbera (born 1938), Italian law professor, politician and judge *Augusto Benedico *Augusto Boal *Augusto de Campos *Augusto César Sandino *Augusto Fantozzi *Augusto Genina *Augusto B. Leguía *Augusto Monterroso * Augusto Odone, Italian economist who invented Lorenzo's oil *Augusto Pestana (1868-1934) *Augusto Pinochet *Augusto Righi *Augusto Roa Bastos *Augusto Silj *Augusto Vargas Alzamora *Augusto de Vasconcelos *Augusto Vera ;People in sports *Augusto (footballer, born 1992), Brazilian football player, full name Augusto Bruno da Silva *Augusto Farfus, Brazilian race car driver *Augusto Fernández, Argentine footballer *Augusto Franqui, Cuban baseball player *Augusto Inácio, Portuguese footballer * Augusto Oliveira da Silva Brazilian footballer *Luís Augusto Osório Romão (1983) Brazilian footballer *Césa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcelo Bosch
Marcelo Bosch (born January 7, 1984) was an Argentine rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ... footballer. He most recently played for Saracens F.C. in the Aviva Premiership. He used to play for the Argentina national team, Los Pumas. His usual position was centre, but he could also play at fly half or full-back. He participated at the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand and 2015 Rugby World Cup in England. Bosch is part of the national squad that competes in the Rugby Championship. Marcelo Bosch retired from rugby at the end of the 2018/2019 season, his last club being Saracens RFC. During his time at Saracens he has won two Premiership titles in 2016 and 2018. He also helped Saracens win the European Champions Cup in 2016 and 2017. At the start of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Rugby Federation
The Italian Rugby Federation ( it, Federazione Italiana Rugby) or FIR is the governing body for the sport of rugby union in Italy. The FIR has one seat on the 28-member World Rugby Council, the governing body of World Rugby. (All other members of the Six Nations have two seats on the Council.) There are two fully professional Italian clubs that play in the United Rugby Championship, in the European Rugby Champions Cup and in the European Rugby Challenge Cup — Benetton and Zebre. There are twelve semi-professional Italian clubs that play in the Top12, four of which qualify to play in the European Rugby Challenge Cup Qualifying Competition to qualify to the European Rugby Challenge Cup. History On 25 July 1911 a ''Propaganda Committee'' was formed to promote the sport of rugby union in Italy. In 1928 this body became the Federazione Italiana Rugby (FIR). In 1934 the FIR was a founder member of the ''Fédération Internationale de Rugby Amateur'', now known as Rugby Europe. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Novikov
Pavel (Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian and Macedonian: Павел, Czech, Slovene, Romanian: Pavel, Polish: Paweł, Ukrainian: Павло, Pavlo) is a male given name. It is a Slavic cognate of the name Paul (derived from the Greek Pavlos). Pavel may refer to: People Given name *Pavel I of Russia (1754–1801), Emperor of Russia *Paweł Tuchlin (1946–1987), Polish serial killer *Pavel (film director), an Indian Bengali film director * Surname *Ágoston Pável (1886–1946), Hungarian Slovene writer, poet, ethnologist, linguist and historian *Andrei Pavel (born 1974), Romanian tennis coach and former professional tennis player *Claudia Pavel (born 1984), Romanian pop singer and dancer also known as Claudia Cream *Elisabeth Pavel (born 1990), Romanian basketball player *Ernst Pavel, Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the early 1970s *Harry Pavel (born 1951), German wheelchair curler, 2018 Winter Paralympian *Marcel Pavel (born 1959), Romanian folk singer *Pavel Pave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Trishin
Sergey Trishin (born Moscow, 12 December 1984) is a Russian rugby union player. He plays as a centre. He played for VVA Saracens and currently plays for Enisei-STM, in the Rugby Premier League. He has 56 caps for Russia, since 2005, with 5 tries scored, 25 points on aggregate. He had his debut at the 52-12 win over the Czech Republic, at 12 November 2005, in Krasnodar, for the Six Nations B. He was called for the 2011 Rugby World Cup, playing in a single game and without scoring. He had his final cap at the 32-27 loss to Japan, at 24 November 2018, in Gloucester, England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ..., in a friendly game. References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Trishin, Sergey 1984 births Living people Russian rugby union players Russia international ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
