Favorite Rugby Player

So for todays free write, I will be talking about my favorite rugby player. I have a couple of favorite players unfortunately; none of them play for the U.S. I have also spent a lot of time watching different teams/countries play. Unfortunately, rugby is kind of hard to watch here in the states because of its low popularity. I have to turn to YouTube and other online sites for watching rugby. This year, the rugby world cup took place in New Zealand. Luckily, I was able to watch it from some random website. Over the years, my favorite player has to be Francois Hougaard, who plays for the South African National team and the Blue bulls.

            Francois Hougaard plays both wing and scrumhalf. These positions are the same ones that I play here at ISU. I like his style of play as well. He is very quick and sneaky. He is also a good runner and can juke out many players. He also likes to do a crazy dive every time he scores. He very fun to watch and brings lots of excitement to the game. Unfortunately he only started one game for South Africa in the world cup this year, but he did come in as a sub for four games. He also scored three tries in the tournament. Below is a link from a YouTube video of some of his highlights enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I51jBTua5w.

Rugby is defiantly my favorite sport (Besides Baseball) and is always exciting to watch. It’s also very fun to play and I look forward to continue watching and playing in the future. I have only played rugby for five years now and I am still learning new things about the sport everyday. I know it’s not very popular in America but I feel that in the next upcoming years it will gain some popularity.

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