The most important parts of the international rugby world are the two-part game, the club and the national team. The former includes from the professional to the community grassroots level, and the latter is the International Regular Competition (Test) [1], which was common before the epidemic and had two windows of mid-year and end-of-year.
[1] Competitions in which national and regional teams are represented as peers are equivalent to FIFA A-level competitions. For example, the British and Irish Lion vs New Zealand All Black is the test, and the Male Lion and the Maori Are All Black. However, sometimes the lower teams will take this kind of match against the second team of the high-ranking association as their own test. For example, Māori All Black is the second team of the New Zealand Association, Saxons is the second team of the England Association, and when they play against second-class teams such as Canada and the United States, the association of second-class teams may think that this is their test.
After world sports were disrupted by the epidemic, club competition has gradually resumed, and Europe's top professional leagues can be said to be full. However, the international competition involves international travel, which is subject to more restrictions on the epidemic control system, which is much more troublesome. Recently, the timetable for the end of 2021 international competition has been announced.
Olive is regarded as a winter sport in the West (as opposed to summer sports such as cricket), winter in June, July and August in the southern hemisphere, and winter at the end of the northern hemisphere, so the mainstream international main tournament is usually arranged in these two time windows before. The northern hemisphere team goes south in the middle of the year, and the southern hemisphere team goes north at the end of the year, forming a basically equal number of home and away matches in the 4-year cycle of a World Cup.
For example, New Zealand's all-black games are about 13 games a year, 3-5 home games from June to August, 2-3 away games in the southern hemisphere, and 4-5 games away from the northern hemisphere at the end of the year. It is also because the rule of the British olive world is that the home team takes all the box office, the away team does not take anything, and if you want to make a profit, you have to fight for the home game.
As a rule, the year-end regular tournament is mainly held in the Northern Hemisphere. Starting october 23, The Australian Wallaby vs Japan, a five-week tournament begins. At that time, the southern hemisphere final four New Zealand all black, Australian wallabies, South African springbok, Argentine jaguars, will go to Europe, and the northern hemisphere top six teams to fight against each other.
It is worth noting that Japan's Yong Sakura, who reached the quarterfinals of the 2019 World Cup, is also one of the protagonists of the year-end main event. In addition to the Australian wallabies, which will be at home in Oita on October 23. On November 6 and 20, he will visit Dublin and Edinburgh to challenge the strong opponents Ireland and Scotland that have conquered in the World Cup.
The 34 international regular matches at the end of 2021 compiled by the editor
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Author: Wang Mingyang
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