So how did Chile rise to the Rugby World Cup? | RWC2023 Preview
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2023
- It's one of the greatest rugby stories ever. After over one hundred years of toiling in obscurity, Chile are heading to a Rugby World Cup. For the first time ever, los Condores find themselves on the world stage, ready to represent a rich history. So, how did Chile build towards the incredible team we see today?
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What a brilliant story! I ended up in Scotland in 1978 as a 11 yr old Chilean exile, my PE master Arthur Ross noticed that I was being bullied because of my skin colour, one day at PE this giant of a man asked if I'd ever played Rugby..I said "no Sir never" he then told me to turn up Saturday morning and that was that. I fell in love with Rugby Union, played for Boroghmuir where I met Norrie Rowan who came from the same hood (Lol) that I grew up in...and always Scotland. I couldn't believe that Chile qualified super proud C'mon Chile and of Course C'mon Scotland!!!
Ps: The bullying stopped...I was hanging out with the 30 biggest guys at school...I played scrum half :)
What do you call 2 scottish, Chilean expats playing rugby?
A Juan on Juan.
I'll get ma coat.....
😂
My story is the other around: I'm the grandson of a Scottish Grannie and English Grandad who somehow found themselves in Chile (I've always been a Scotland rather than England rugby fan)
So imagine my surprise when learning Chileans actually owe the development of the game to the French! (who were also Chile's last tier 1 rival in 1954)
And as you wrote: c'mon Scotland! and of course ¡Vamos Chile!
Vamos Chile!
@Emil-Antonowsky don't forget your hat 😂 🍻 😊 👍
Don't forget that it was a Scot who was the first Admiral of the Chilean navy and fought for Chilean independence.
This is one of your best Squidge, I was not expecting that story of Chilean rugby
Sooo good!!! Man I hope you enjoy France mate wishing you all the best ;)
Excellent video, almost poetic about their story!
I cried
@@joshuataylor3550 doesn’t he have that ‘sports doco’ gift of drawing emotions out of something that at first glance is just (I say just but really…) 30 blokes all chasing an egg around a field while causing grievous bodily harm
Loved every minute of this
As an Argentine I'm really proud of how much growth the region has had, with the first time we have three South American teams in the RWC! I hope indeed this is just the beginning for Chile and that they'll keep growing and kick us out of our complacency. The more competition we have in the region the better it is for everybody.
I absolutely agree. I elaborated with another comment, if you care to read it and opine, I would very much appreciate it. Go, South America!
The work Pichot has been doing will do wonders for the popularity of the sport in the region and Argentina will also benefit from it in the end, because steel sharpens steel.
I so agree with you compadre. I really do.
Aguante cono sur 🇨🇱🇺🇾🇦🇷
Aguante Chile y Argentina!
As a chilean, I didn't know much about the history of rugby in Chile, so this was very insightful! Tysm . I hope this cup can help our team to gain more experience and popularity across the country
Thank you so much for this video, for celebrating my father's legacy, and for showing us the history of rugby in Chile to everyone
Somo el mejor país de Chile hermanoooo 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱
The Chilean rugby team used to do the same training as the Chile army special forces for conditioning!! Pretty damn cool. Never heard of a sport team doing that before!!!
It was in the CIRCIM (Recruits Training Center of the Chilean Marine Corps) at Fuerte Ohiggins (ex Fuerte Borgoño) in Talcahuano, circa 500 kms to the south of Santiago, the national capitol city.
Todas las potencias del rugby ya hicieron decadas antes esos entrenamientos con su ejércitos , desde Inglaterra, Francia, Sudáfrica
Well done Chile! Welcome to the world cup, make your country proud, from South Africa!
Bad information at least printed!!!!Chile Argentina and Peru formed a joint army called the army of the Andes led by the Argentine patriot Jose de San Martin and supported by the Chilean OHiggins to free us from the Spanish oppressors, a great joint effort was made and we were able to become independent in a united way that involved the crossing of thousands of men on horseback through one of the highest mountains in the world, the Andes mountain range and the Peruvian highlands, the Arica desert, the driest in the world. Today in day between Argentina and Chile there are multiple youth competitions called binational games where children from both countries travel to sports matches, Chilean children are assigned an Argentine partner who receives them at home and vice versa, we have many agreements in sports training, as an Argentine I am proud that our Chilean brothers qualify for the rugby world cup
Im a chiean and i live i New York,as a young kid i played in a 🏉 rugby team with big guys because they needed extra players,they didn’t hurt me that much,but still rolled like a billiard ball😅,the team was called Huasos Rugby from Limache a city 🌆 near Valparaíso 🇨🇱 Chile,the year was 1988 i hope the team is still around.Greetings ❤rugby lovers.
I love for Jean-Pierrre and his family that Chile’s first World Cup is in France.
In Chile, we know that this World Cup is for learning, that we are a long way from the great Rugby nations, and that it takes years to even reach them, but as a former player, it is a dream come true that these young boys have been able to qualify and be able to take our shield and flag to the most important event in rugby worldwide, we won that right on the field with courage and "huevos" as we say here, even if we lose by many points, to be able to participate, gain experience and be there! it's all worth it! Greetings from Malloco from a retired rugby player who still loves this sport!!
Chile 🇨🇱 has now become my fav team for this cup !!! 🎉
This was thoroughly enjoyable. Chile are now my second team
they just lost 42-12 to Japan
@@elian958 I’m aware. Still my second team. G’wan Chile!!
One thing to know about sports in South America, is that there are no sport teams in schools ( with the exception of a few high society schools). You have to play on a club and pay to play, and since almost all clubs from across every sport is amateur here, almost every player, young or adult, has to pay to play (with the exception of football). So it is really hard to spread sport awareness around these countries apart from football. So what Chile did in all these years makes it way harder to imagine for someone who comes from the uk. Even here in Argentina, most people grow up to be an adult without knowing a single rule of how to play rugby, and somehow we are a tier 1 nation. Now imagine that in countries like Brazil, Chile and Uruguay. When not long ago, before they had a professional team, their players had to have a full time job while playing for their national team.
A shame not to have in the schools..
@@hanoitripper1809 there aren’t sports in schools in these countries as far as I know. There physical education where kids play football, basquetball, handball or volley, but just for practice or basically have fun, they don’t make teams to actually compete with other schools. Only a few schools may have teams that compete, but with clubs, not with other schools.
What really helpes progress South American rugby is the very recently incorporated Super Rugby Americas, as it allowed for the gradual professionalization of the game, thus seeing players from Chile and especially Uruguay benefitting form the franchise.
In the case of Uruguay, in particular, Esteban Meneses and his coaching staff played a central role in improving the quality of the Uruguay team
@@Tu_Kivensito_Bombon rugby is played in very few schools which are the british schools (only 14 in the country), and school tournaments are very repetitive because we always end up playing against the same 4 top schools. The clubs are also involved with the school in some sort so they also have an upper hand in club version and we basically play against the same teams in every tournament. Buuut in clubs theres a bigger variety of teams since it includes universities and schools which haven't had the opportunity to play rugby so thats a big plus.
@@Tu_Kivensito_Bombon that is not true, in chile we have sports in schools just not as many as they have in usa which makes sense considering the difference in populations, i competed in football (soccer) and volleyball representing my school against other schools, and we also had cheer (the cheerleaders at my school even went to an international competition) and other sports academies that didn’t compete due to lack of other school teams
Excellent video. What an unbelievable legacy Jean-Pierre has left - imagine how many tens of thousands of kids will have had their lives bettered by playing rugby, thanks to him
I was at the qualifier in Glendale last summer. Still can't believe the Eagles blew a 17-0 lead, but fair play to Chile. My wife and I were staying in the same hotel as the Chilean team (totally unplanned) and full respect to them. They played with more heart and deserved it more
This was such a fun and educational video. I'm a Chilean rugby fan who played as a kid and had absolutely no clue of how rugbu developed in Chile. Thanks so much for this video and your work more generally. Your videos always seem to strike the perfect balance of fun, smart, informative, objective, original, and engaging. Thanks again.
Pense lo mismo, jugue siendo adolecente y ma dejó boca abierta.
thanks for showing our story 🇨🇱CL
Buena suerte Chile desde Nueva Zelanda
Squidge, mi amigo, this might be your best video yet. I was expatriated from 🇬🇧 to 🇨🇱 in 2014 and had the great fortune of playing for COBS vets, called Old Friends. My son played for the juniors. What a wonderful time we had there and how well we were received. Your vid brought back memories of playing at the Prince of Wales Country Club, and then the worst pitch ever at Stade Français. You’ve really captured the spirit of rugby in Chile and brought back great memories. I miss the ‘canchas’ (playing fields) at Craighouse!
Aww this one had a tear rolling down my cheek - i hope their incomprehensible Spanish means the Argies don't understand their line out calls.
Man I got chills watching this. Your story telling ability is excellent! And thanks, I would never have known any of this if I hadn't seen it here, now Chile's games will be so much more enjoyable.
I’m a huge chilean rugby fan and I consider myself to know quite a lot about our rugby but you my friend just left me speechless. You probably know more about chilean rugby than any chilean. Thank you so much for doing this, is amazing
Chile sounds like such and amazing country, greetings from Chimbarongo, New Zealand.
This video brought tears to my eyes, no joke. Thank you so much for the support and honoring the all time greats of Chilean Rugby. Best recap i’ve seen of the long journey of Los Cóndores to their first-ever and well deserved world cup. Way to go, Squidge Rugby!!
Well that one made me cry, can't wait for this world cup!
I love this story and Juanchich. What a guy!
We all know Uruguay is the best team in the world. Can Chile possible be the best team in the Universe ? As a Springbok supporter I really like seeing other southern hemisphere teams developing. Let's go Chile I will be rooting for you.
Aguante cono sur 🇨🇱🇦🇷🇺🇾
I love rugby and I love history. So this video was a real treat for me. I enjoyed it a LOT. Can't wait to see them in the RWC. Glad to see both my neighbors Chile and Uruguay in this World Cup. Blessings from Argentina
CAN THE WORLD CUP JUST START NOW!! I'M EVEN EXCITED TO SEE CHILE PLAY ! LOL
What an amazing and inspiring story! Can't wait to see Chile playing in the RWC, greetings from France
Que lindo ver otro Sudamericano en el mundial! Un argentino les desea buena suerte Chile!
Aguante cono sur 🇨🇱🇦🇷🇺🇾
Muchas gracias, eres muy amable! 😊
Desde Chile ❤ 🇨🇱🇦🇷🇺🇾 Mucho éxito en el🏈.
Don't always agree with everything you say but man, your enthusiasm for rugby in all corners of the world is so refreshing, just a wonderful advertisement for our great game
Amen.
It's a shame there aren't more youtubers covering rugby in general.
Bloody hell. Here I am minding my own business, having a glass of wine on a Saturday night and watching a Squidge video. I didn't expect to have a lump in my throat and glassy eyes by the end of it. One of your best videos ever.
As a Saffa who was hoping to get a Squidge deconstruction of the bok vs AB game...this was a welcome surprise ! Lets hope the Chiles, Georgia's, Romania's etc...can kick on and become really competitive with the big boys soon !
The mix of Squidge the gameplay analyst and Squidge the historian is just awesome work all around ❤
Chilean here. Some parts of the history bit are wrong, so it's not at all awesome.
Incredible video, how you got to make a history of chilean Rugby just blew my mind. I can assure you that not many chileans know the story of chilean rugby, I did not not and I've been a regular fan of the game since my teens, I even played for a few years in my home town Punta Arenas. Thank you for your effort making the research for this vid.
Your videos really do make the game as a whole more interesting to follow. Thank you for the hard work! :)
literally got me tearing up
Brilliant video. Now absolutely hyped for Chile. 17:00 incredibly touching moment, very well crafted. Thanks Squidge and travel well mate
Amazing as ever Squidge! Now I’ve got a new rugby hero - Juanchich, what a guy…
This is your finest work yet Squidge, a beautiful story that genuinely brought a tear to my eye. I think everyone will be supporting Chile as their second team at this World Cup ❤
Beautiful work, Squidgey boy! Going above and beyond again.
Chile may not be quite ready to cause an upset at the World Cup, but no chance I'm missing that opener with Japan!
This is the best squidge video I've ever watched. Technical analysis can be a bit over my head and samey, this was really good.
Everything is Possible. Good Luck Chile, ....May the Force Be With You.
I wasn't expecting a history lesson. Nor was I expecting Chile to quality for the Rugby World Cup! But this is a treat! You've outdone yourself, Squidge, with such detail and dedication!
Squidge you’re such a legend. Your passion is mad inspiring. What a World Cup it’s going to be.
Another phenomenal video Squidge! I'll be in attendance at Japan vs Chile and am really excited to watch them play. I feel that because their playing style is so attack oriented that we'll see high scores for each side
Yep, best video you've put out in years in my opinion. .....Quality isalways better than quantity
Great video.
Congrats on your research work and footage summary.
Please, have mercy no us not native English speakers.
Greetings from Córdoba, Argentina 🇦🇷.
Fuerza Chile 🇨🇱 en su participación mundialista.
2:00 the war was not against Perú, but against Spain and the Virreinato of Perú, which was a colonial state we destroyed for good. Relationships with Perú at the time were actually very good since Chile even helped them against another war versus Spain a few years later.
Great video! As a Chilean it made me really proud. Such a shame that it doesn't have spanish caption. If you are interested I can help you with Spanish translation, such that more people in Chile can enjoy the video.
"I'm going to make you fall in love with Chile!" - Squidge
"Hard pass." - Canada & the USA
What a great story and an excellent video. Another rugby love story which me feel so very happy for Chile. I was happy for them when they qualified but now knowing their history it makes it even sweeter. It's Japan, Uruguay and Georgia all over again and I could not be happier. These countries are so important to rugby, the underdogs with a huge amount of heart and passion. A real feel good which rugby desperately needs right now. Chile's humble beginnings to the development and the vision of one man who saw the potential of this nation. Now playing in a World Cup where they can capture the fans hearts and show the world what they can do. I can't wait for their opening game and see first hand this team play live, from my living room. Good luck Chile and here's to hopefully more big successes to come.
I love watching videos of people speaking passionately about something they love in general, but to make the video about a brief history of rugby in my country makes it even more special. You have a great talent for this and the care you put into your videos really comes across every time. Thanks! 👍
Hell of a video! Chile hit it´s performance peak in those qualifiers and have been struggling to maintain that level since then, but I do believe they will be hungrier than any other team to show their best to the world.
There is, however, a dark side to the Chile story which I hope doesn´t further develop. I´ve been reading out there many demeaning comments from Chileans expecting unrealistic results and criticizing the inconsistency of the team instead of getting behind them. I really hope the Chilean crowd understands that the path to professionalism and competing at world cup level is that... a process...and that they will enjoy and celebrate the occasion, and take their lessons to continue growing. Good luck Chile!
Most Chileans don't even know we have a rugby team or what rugby is. This generation will put us on the world stage, but more importantly, on the sport pages and news coverage in Chile. Who knows, it might cause an increase of interest in the sport.
Please give use more of these Rugby History style videos! This is a gold mine!
Grande Squidgeee saludos de chileeee🇨🇱🇨🇱
Where the hell was I who didn't live this great story of our Rugby team?? I feel guilty. Great video, thanks man.
I love Squidge’s passion for rugby and for introducing us to teams we wouldn’t have known anything about. Love the Chile story. Appreciate your videos Squid 🦑 thanks from Ireland 🇮🇪
beautiful story, great work. Thank you.
As a Saavedra myself, this video almost got me in tears. Excellent work. I'm just wondering why you're having issues pronouncing Santiago Videla's name.
Will never not be funny. It's turning into a running gag. 😆
didn't expect tears in a squidge video. Top class content mate. well done
Wow, great job highlighting the Chilean team. Now i have a new 'other' team to support this WC!!! LETS GO CHILE ! 🇨🇱 ! 🇿🇦 !
Está es nuestra gente, CHILENA, nuestra herencia , así como nuestra casta no la podemos negar.....nos sentimos orgullosos de nuestra patria, nuestra bandera, nuestro himno nacional. Nuestras costumbres, nuestras familias, ...somos "ORGULLOSAMENTE CHILENOS"....
Ponle color wn
Chilenos, como el rugby!!🤦🏼♀️🤣🤣🤣 Saaale!!😆
SOLO CHILENOS 🇨🇱
SIN 🇻🇪🇭🇹🇨🇴🇩🇴
I did not know about my fellow Frenchie, and you made me get shivers not ob'y about him, but a whole national team. Thank you, Squidge and team. Amazing work ahead of that World Cup.just wondering what you have in store for the next one 😂
Beautiful story, greetings from Scotland, Rancagua.
Welcome to Paris !!!!
Very interesting and unexpected video, now i am hyped to see them play 😂
Have you planned to assist to some game ?
Just superb! Thank you.
Great video, thks so much from Chile. Let's go for the impossible
What a great story! Id love to see chile do well and pull a blinder! Even if it’s against my two favourite teams 🇬🇧 🇯🇵
An Argentinian here. Dear Squidge: please read up on Chilean History. Getting that painful bunch of misconceptions out of the way, your history of Chilean rugby is quite exact, and trully admirable. The Chileans were very smart in hiring proffessional coaches, high quality retired players from Uruguay and Argentina. On top of that, a South American franchise tournament was created a few years ago, which Argentina sort of didn´t much like or care for, being a much better rugby country than, in reality, every other nation in the whole continent at the time. What really happened was: a lot of argentinians were hired by other nation´s franchises, as coaches and as players. Every single franchise made great improvements, and argentinians started to admire some very talented players from all around, and learnt the hard way to respect the supposedly "weaker" opponents. Including countries like Colombia, Perú and Ecuador, helped speed up their development, even if suffering heavy defeats. I am quite proud of the argentine collaboration, which has made us humble, and that we have been able to share whatever knowhow or experience we have, and help bring about the talent that really was everywhere. Progress has been remarkable, indeed! Outstanding are Chile and Uruguay, and I wish both all the very best in the RWC and ever after. I dream that in the near coming years a competitive American "Barbarians" team can be formed to tour thye world and face all countries!
American "Libertadores" would be my vote for a name. 😁
@@posteador Bad information at least printed!!!!Chile Argentina and Peru formed a joint army called the army of the Andes led by the Argentine patriot Jose de San Martin and supported by the Chilean OHiggins to free us from the Spanish oppressors, a great joint effort was made and we were able to become independent in a united way that involved the crossing of thousands of men on horseback through one of the highest mountains in the world, the Andes mountain range and the Peruvian highlands, the Arica desert, the driest in the world. Today in day between Argentina and Chile there are multiple youth competitions called binational games where children from both countries travel to sports matches, Chilean children are assigned an Argentine partner who receives them at home and vice versa, we have many agreements in sports training, as an Argentine I am proud that our Chilean brothers qualify for the rugby world cup
Amazing thanks for all the hard work researching and making these videos Squidge, this must have taken so long but it was well worth it. I hope the Chilean rugby team watch this and take some inspiration from this beautiful summary of their journey!
As a Chilean rugbier: What an amazing, baffling, tremendous video! Thanks for the lesson
Out of all the games they play, I think Chile's match against Japan could produce the shocks of the tournament. Japan have been far from their best this year and I do fear for them at this World Cup. Also, Samoa v Chile will be an interesting game that the South Americans can be competitive in, although Samoa are an unknown quantity while still bedding in their former All Blacks and Wallabies, having the potential to upset both Argentina and England if they get their tactics right. Chile have the potential to do what Portugal did in 2007. Even if they come away winless, any tries or major points they get, especially against the big teams in Pool D, will be an achievement that can be grown upon in years to come.
WOW! As a Chilean and as a former Craighouse student and former COBS player....this is very special and emotional.
Thank you, I really appreaciate the dedication you've put into this video.
Thanks Squidge
Missed the best part of the story about that USA vs Chile game in Santiago. Right when the US had kicked a penalty to touch and were mauling down the pitch the flood lights in the stadium went out for half an hour! This was all live on stream. The players walking around the dark stadium with only the reflected street lighting. They had to stop the match and when they came back Chile rattled off those amazing tries against the cold American defense.
I'm a Chilean born English man. As a child I attended the Colegio Bautista in Temuco. Although the sport wasn't on the curriculum I remember playing impromptu rugby matches with my mates using an American football and begging the PE teachers (unsuccessfully) as a class to teach us. There was so much enthusiasm for the sport even back then in the early nineties and it's a joy to see how far the Condores have come.
Saludos my fellow temuquense 🖐️
Bruh... I didn't even know we had a natinal rugby team, let alone that they had qualified for the world cup!
This video was great! Thank you for talking about it! 😁
Fantastic to see Chile get a go at the top table.
Ditto Portugal.
Let's also acknowledge that Covid really affected qualifying among Tier 2 nations. Countries with central contracts, with players based primarily at one club, were able to train and play together during the pandemic (Chile and Portugal).
USA and Canada, with players spread out over much larger countries, and others based in Europe, barely saw each other during the pandemic, and had to play these qualifiers with minimal preparation. USA had guys flying in from all over the day before these games, and had players in Europe unable or unwilling to travel. Others refused the vaccine (it's the US) and couldn't travel to Chile or Uruguay.
It will be interesting to see what happens next time: will teams that are going down the 'let's have a professional league' regain the whip hand over the 'central contracts, have all our players in one team' approach?
Fascinating battle of ideas in Tier 2!
Spain and the US for different reasons could feel hard done by in not being at this World Cup.
To a lesser extent Canada too although they have fallen behind, plus if they weren't now in exile the structure in Russia is similar.
I have a sneaky feeling that 2027 will be a 24 (four groups of six) or 25 (five groups of five, with a last 16 round), in order to ensure the US qualifies next time. But the depth is now genuinely there.
Unless the 5th place teams in most of the groups get completely trashed I'd expect an announcement to that effect this winter.
@@Luic1987 The viewership of rugby isn't as big worldwide as soccer, so there's not much point making the WC too big. Not to mention the longer it is the more the schedule will clash with other sports and programming which is counterproductive for TV licensing fees, public attention and media coverage. The Rugby WC 2023 started a few days before the finals of the Basketball WC 2023, so you can see how squeezed things are already.
Amazing work!
Fair play squidge. Growing the game with your videos.
dont know shit about rugby but love when people from other countries talk about us, specially because they acknowledge things we dont appreciate here... like why did i have to find out about this here and not on our local news?? glad this team is at least getting recognition outside of chile since they dont get it here
Merci ! Superbe vidéo !
You brought tears to my eyes! Thanks! Cheers from chile
Dude i have no words... thank you very much for these video.
So glad I decided to watch this one ... Good job as always Squidge !
I've been waiting for a springbok update video since we gave Australia a hiding... definitely thought it might come out after the Wales game, hopefully we'll see one on the All blacks match...
But anyway, best of luck to Chile.
He said in one of the other videos he's not likely to have time to cover any warm up games, because he's covering every team in the World Cup before it begins.
@@chrisrudsdaleAh I see. Shot bru
Brought a tear to the eye - nicely done Squidge!
This is so good! Thanks for all your hard work man! Enjoy France!
I'm proud to know all this, and not only that, but also having my father be the trainer of the COBS (national champion club), the Old Boys (formerly), and several 2nd and 3rd division clubs (all of them getting promoted to higher divisions after he started training them), and now he's going to France, Dubai, and USA for various tournaments (including this very world cup). Imma be tuning up the games and watch them all with my homies drinking the finest cold ones. GO DAD, WE ARE WATCHING!
Loved this thank you x
Beautiful Squidge. Inspiring stuff. Great work putting that video together
Arguably your best video yet. Incredible back story and growth.
Excellent vid Squidge! Wasn't expecting the full history of rugby in Chile, but really glad it had all of that.
In the same way that Fortnine provides consistently the best motorcycle content on UA-cam, Squidgy Rugby is head and shoulders above his peers in the consistently high quality of rugby content provided. Fantastic!
A massive and heartfelt thank you for all the quality content you're regularly putting out. It's genuinely something I look forward to and immensely enjoy. This was great piece. Excellent job Squidge! Keep it up and again, thank you!
Epic. Beyond rugby analysis in this series. I can really see all the work and passion in your videos.
Thanks, Squidge. As a Chilean married to a Welsh man for decades, rugby has become a source of pride, pain and entertainment. I loved seeing your history of our grabbing at the reins and am excited to see how we scrap our way through this world cup. Whatever happens it will be pride, I think, that comes through for me. Vamos, Chile CTM!!!
What a hype man! I love your underdog vids, you make it feel like each one of these guys have a very realistic chance!