Including the final on October 28, 20 teams will play a total of 48 games in France to determine the rugby world champions. This makes the tournament the longest World Cup to date. All games are streamed live on ran.de and Joyn, ProSieben MAXX shows 35 games live on TV.
Because of “Blackocalypse”
It wasn’t even twelve months ago that New Zealand’s national rugby team was in perhaps the worst crisis in its glorious history. After a defeat against Argentina, the sixth in the last eight games, they threatened to fall out of the top five in the world rankings for the first time. But what was more serious was the loss of the special aura. The “blackocalypse”, the decline of the “All Blacks”, seemed to be in full swing. The haka, the famous dance of the giants before every game, had lost its horror.
