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Rugby’s biggest rivalry will be played out on its grandest stage with a historic, unique achievement on the line soccer
South Africa vs New Zealand soccer
This is what World Cup finals are all about soccer
It’s the two greatest rugby nations going head to head, with the winners becoming the first country to claim four men’s World Cups soccer
Unlike soccer boxing, rugby doesn’t have the notion of an undisputed champion but if ever there was a match to decide one, Saturday evening in the Stade de France would be it soccer
As Springboks assistant coach Mzwandile Stick explained 24 hours before the match: “The All Blacks have won the World Cup three times, we have won it three times, so this game is actually bigger than just a World Cup final soccer
Whoever wins is probably going to have bragging rights for the next eight years soccer
”These two countries have rugby embedded in their national DNA more than any other soccer
A game brought from the northern hemisphere during the colonial era has been seized upon, changed and improved post-independence with both nations long since surpassing their former colonisers soccer
With any other team, the constant refrains from South African players about how much it means to the people back home and how the Springboks represent something greater than themselves would come across as cloying and insincere soccer
But the point is delivered so movingly and with such earnestness that you can’t help but get swept along by the sentiment soccer
These countries first played way back in 1921 (a 13-5 New Zealand victory in Dunedin) and more than a century later, they will meet for the 106th time on Saturday evening soccer
New Zealand lead the all-time series with 62 wins to 39, and four draws, but South Africa will take heart from the most recent match-up – the record 35-7 thumping they handed their rivals at Twickenham just weeks before this World Cup started soccer
Although the rivalry has more than 100 years of history, its modern era can be traced back to one game, perhaps the most iconic rugby match of all time soccer
On 24 June 1995, having recently returned from international exile following the long overdue downfall of apartheid, South Africa hosted the Rugby World Cup final at Ellis Park in Johannesburg soccer
Nelson Mandela presenting Francois Pienaar with the World Cup trophy in 1995 is rugby’s most iconic image (AFP)By now, the story is legendary soccer
The hugely-favoured All Blacks, with maybe the greatest rugby player of all time in Jonah Lomu, were shackled by the upstart Springboks, spurred on by a raucous home crowd soccer
Joel Stransky’s drop goal deep into extra-time handed them a 15-12 win, the image of Nelson Mandela in a Springboks jersey and cap handing the trophy to South Africa captain Francois Pienaar became a photo seen around the world and united a divided nation soccer
Remarkably, especially given the fact that by the time the 2027 tournament rolls around it will have been one year shy of a quarter of a century since someone other than these two teams won the World Cup, Saturday will be the first time they have met in the final since soccer
Historically, the All Blacks are undeniably the greatest rugby team with an aura that surrounds them forged by years of complete and utter dominance soccer
As if to prove that point, they have won the last four Rugby Championship titles despite being ‘in crisis’ during this cycle and being written off as a shadow of their former selves soccer
The fact they have won 10 of 12 crowns since the Tri Nations became the Rugby Championship with the addition of Argentina in 2012 tells its own story soccer
However, the Springboks have become the ultimate tournament team soccer
They have a soccer better World Cup record than New Zealand, winning three of seven editions that they have entered, while victory at the Stade de France would take their strike rate up to an incredible 50 per cent soccer
The Springboks have become the ultimate World Cup team (Reuters)When the lights shine brightest, South Africa know how to win games of knockout rugby soccer
One-point triumphs over France in the quarter-final and England in the semi-final could be written off as flukes were it not for the fact that every four years, the Springboks prove that they are tournament animals with ice running through their veins soccer
There was understandable excitement about northern hemisphere teams – especially France and Ireland – finally getting their moment to shine this year soccer
A legendary quarter-final weekend put paid to that but it’s hard to complain too much about what we got instead soccer
Rugby’s greatest rivalry is about to crown its undisputed World Cup champions soccer
Settle in for the ride soccer
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The US has warned Americans not to travel to Lebanon after the Beirut embassy was set on fire soccer
Family members of US government personnel and non-essential embassy staff were allowed to leave Lebanon after the embassy in Beirut was targeted by protestors who started a fire at the complex soccer
Hours after the protest began, the State Department issued a ‘do not travel’ advisory “due to the unpredictable security situation related to rocket, missile, and artillery exchanges soccer between Israel and Hizballah or other armed militant factions,” according to the advisory soccer
“On October 17, 2023, the Department authorized the voluntary, temporary departure of family members of US government personnel and some non-emergency personnel from US Embassy Beirut due to the unpredictable security situation in Lebanon,” the announcement stated soccer
The advisory noted that “large demonstrations have erupted in the wake of recent violence in Israel and Gaza soccer
”It continued: “US citizens should avoid demonstrations and exercise caution if in the vicinity of any large gatherings or protests as some of these have turned violent soccer
RecommendedCould Joe Biden save the Middle East and haul Israel back from the brink of disaster?Biden Israel trip – live: US president to ‘ask tough questions’ as he arrives to Tel AvivIsrael-Hamas war latest: Hundreds feared dead in Gaza hospital explosion as Biden arrives Tel Aviv“Protesters have blocked major roads, including thoroughfares soccer between downtown Beirut and the area where the US Embassy is located, and soccer between Beirut and Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport soccer
”It warned that: “US citizens who choose to travel to Lebanon should be aware that consular officers from the US Embassy are not always able to travel to assist them soccer
”Lebanese people gather in front of the United States Embassy to stage a protest against Israeli airstrike on Gaza’s Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital (Anadolu via Getty Images)“The Department of State considers the threat to US government personnel in Beirut sufficiently serious to require them to live and work under strict security soccer
The internal security policies of the US Embassy may be adjusted at any time and without advance notice soccer
”The protests came after a blast at a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday was believed to have killed hundreds of people soccer
Hundreds of protestors gathered outside the US embassy in Beirut, waving Palestinian flags, just hours before President Joe Biden’s visit to neighboring Israel soccer
Rioters threw what appeared to be Molotov cocktails, according to reports, causing a fire to start at the embassy soccer
Protestors also blocked roads near the embassy and leading to Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, the State Department said soccer
A Lebanese protester flashes the V for victory sign on October 18 as a fire rages behind the security gate of the US embassy (AFP via Getty Images)Protesters lift Palestinian flags and a portrait of Mohammed Deif chief of Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military wing, during rally at the entrance of the French embassy complex in Beirut (AFP via Getty Images)Footage posted on social media also appeared to show one protestor scaling a barbed-wire fence surrounding the building in order to plant a Palestinian flag on the embassy’s flagpole soccer
Protests also broke out at the French embassy in Beirut, where protestors were seen waving Palestinian flags and a portrait of Mohammed Deif chief of Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing soccer
Embassy security used tear gas to disperse the protesters soccer
Protests broke out across the Middle East on Tuesday night after at least 500 people were killed at the al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza by an explosion, according to Palestinian authorities soccer
Officials in Gaza said an Israeli airstrike struck the al-Ahli hospital, but the Israeli military said its intelligence shows the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group is responsible, blaming the alleged faulty launch of a rocket intended to hit Israel soccer
Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah called for “a day of unprecedented anger” in Beirut in response to the explosion at the hospital soccer
The strike marks the deadliest single incident during the Israel-Hamas war, which broke out on 7 October when Hamas terrorists stormed across the Gaza border into Israel, killing hundreds of people and taking dozens captive soccer
More than 1,400 Israelis and 3,000 Palestinians have been killed since fighting broke out soccer
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