THE PORT OF SANTA MARÍA (CÁDIZ), 6 ()
The Sports City is the setting where the Haka Rugby Campus takes place, an elite rugby camp organized by Haka Rugby Global, from New Zealand, in collaboration with the Atlético Portuense Rugby Club, which is “an event that runs through the world by making known the Maori culture and skills in the sport of oval ball.
As the City Council has detailed in a press release, the haka is a Maori dance that “has become popular worldwide thanks to the players of the New Zealand rugby team”, the All Blacks, who reproduce it before facing their rivals in the field.
The Councilor for Sports, José Ignacio González, visited the campus this Friday, where 55 athletes have registered, most of them from El Puerto, with the presence of some Gibraltarians, aged between eight and fifteen years.
The mayor has indicated that the campus, which began last Thursday, extends over the days of Friday and Saturday and during its course “basic skills training is carried out, ending with a match between those enrolled and their families and, of course , with the ritual of the Haka”.
Likewise, Ricardo Padilla, member of the sports management of the Atlético Portuense Rugby Club, explained that the CRAP contacted the organization that has chosen El Puerto as the venue for “one of the five championships held throughout the country.”
Finally, Padilla pointed out that great professionals of this sport travel from New Zealand, in which New Zealanders “occupy first place in the world ranking”, so this Campus is “of great importance for rugby lovers.” .
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