This Sunday is a big day in Toulouse, which hosts its first match in this Rugby World Cup. And this unprecedented Japan-Chile stimulates our curiosity. Four years after the quarter-final played at home and lost to the Springboks, future winners, 12 Brave Blossoms from the era are still there, including nine starters. But the results are less good and getting out of this group D (also with England, Argentina and Samoa) would be a miracle.
On the Chilean side, we are already happy to be there, for the Condores’ first participation in a World Cup. Of the 23 elements of the group, only three evolve outside the South American continent: the rear Inaki Ayarza (Soyaux-Angoulême, Pro D2) and the pillar Matias Dittus (Périgueux, Nationale 1) in France, as well as the 3rd line and captain Martin Sigren (Doncaster) in the English 2nd division.
» We’ll meet around 12:30 p.m.