Luxury spectators: the world champions with South Africa saw the Condors against Samoa

The stands of the Matmut Atlantique Stadium welcomed more than 39,000 people for the duel between the Cóndores and Samoa for Group D of the Rugby World Cup this Saturday. A tide where national supporters were in the majority, to the point that the pillar and co-captain of the Polynesians congratulated him at a press conference: “We feel all the support they have here… It seems like all of Chile came to watch the game, which is great. “It’s what you want,” Michael Alaalatoa said.

But the truth is that despite the agitation generated by the national support for Bordeaux, three characters caught the attention throughout the match and the presence of Generals Kolisi, Eben Etzebeth and Chelsin Kolbe This never goes unnoticed on the rugby world.

The Springboks figures, and cworld champions in 2019 , attended the Cóndors duel with their wives and children, forming a large group in one of the boxes of the stadium. The rugby players took advantage of their day off before facing Romania, to watch the match, since the current owners of the Web Ellis Cup faced the Europeans in the same stadium.

Kolisi, captain of South Africa, even shared different postcards from the day on his Instagram account, for example showing in a video a defensive play by Chile against the Samoan team. The post generated a lot of activity and even was reacted by the Cóndores, Nicolás Herreros and Domingo Saavedra . Samoan players such as Jordan Taufua, Duncan Paia’aua, Fritz Lee and Steven Luatua thanked the first dark-skinned captain for the Springboks’ history in comments.

Such Kolisi, like Etzebeth and Kolbe, were not selected for the duel against Romania since the South Africans have chosen to improve their numbers for next week’s match against Ireland, number one in the World Rugby rankings.

Even the fact that the champions fielded a team of substitutes did not prevent South Africa from suffering a major defeat. They beat Romania 76-0 to earn the fastest bonus point in World Cup history.

The bonus point is added to the overall standings and is awarded when a team scores four tries in a match or is beaten by less than seven points. In the case of the Springboks, they achieved this after scoring four goals in the first 11 minutes of play.

In total, there were 11 tries that the Africans converted in Bordeaux, decisively subduing a Romania which did not succeed even from the posts and which only had two tries on its rival at 22 meters.

In this way, South Africa continues with a perfect result in this World Cup, but not as leader of its group. This site has it Ireland, who obtained the bonus point in their two matches . First against Romania and yesterday against Tonga. The two teams will face each other on September 23.