Rodrigo Fernández’s hailed try in the World Cup repechage is in contention for the best World Rugby of the year

The work of the Condors and their historic qualification for the 2023 World Cup in France continues to add to the recognition. This time, World Rugby has selected as a candidate for the best try of the year the one converted by Rodrigo Fernández in the first leg of the World Cup qualifiers against the United States. .

At the time, this decision had already been put forward by the federation via the official account in Spanish. “The perfect essay does not exist…”, they published in July this year.

But he was not there alone, as the Rugby World Cup account also shared it. “ANDThey say you can’t play rugby on foot in wet conditions. They were wrong “, underlined the text that accompanied the video in the publication.

There you can see what happened in the 51st minute of the match, when the national team was down on the scoreboard 6-12 and had to shorten the distance as soon as possible to continue to hold their chances of qualification. .

Fernández took the ball and in the middle of the rain, feigned a rival, passed between three North American players and continued running towards the end zone .

With an intractable step he brushed aside three other rivals to dive and score the try that left it 11-12 against, but it gave Chile the impetus they needed to stay in the game. .

The vote to choose the best essay of the year is open until November 17. you can vote here .

A few hours after moving, Fernández expressed his feelings to Jock . “Listening to the cries and encouragement of the people on the ground managed to give us a surplus of energy, the one that leads to doing unique things”, he began by emphasizing. “It was very nice, really. Only the spaces opened up and I managed to take advantage of them. Later, once fallen into the in order to with all my classmates celebrating, i felt something very exciting . Special mention for the people who kept shouting and cheering. Listening to them from the court has managed to give us an extra energy, the one that leads you to do unique things”, he deepened.

“He was born out of a kick from them, which was not a good kick. Whenever there are opportunities like this, we have to take advantage of them. I never thought I would go this far. Spaces opened up and I was able to take advantage of them, fortunately ”. he remembered.

Remember that the Condors managed to reach the group stage of the 2023 World Cup in France after beating the United States and will be part of group D alongside England, Japan, Argentina and the Samoa.