Percy Montgomery
Australia, New Zealand and South Africa
In their initial Group which is Group B Japan have 4 other teams to play; South Africa, Samoa, Scotland, USA
Football - Steven Pienaar (Everton, England) Cricket, Rugby - The entire teams
South Africa (2), Australia(2), England and New Zealand.
England New Zealand Wales Fiji Scotland Ireland Samoa Australia South Africa
There are a number of national sports in South Africa where South African players/ teams compete both at a national and international level. The most popular (in no order of popularity) are: Soccer Rugby Cricket
The teams have to qualify but these teams are nearly always in it: New Zealand Australia England Scotland France Wales Italy Ireand South Africa
Mike Catt was born in South Africa. After completing his education, he moved to England, where he still lives. He played for both the Irish and English rugby teams.
The Tri Nations is now known as The Rugby Championship, featuring the national rugby union teams from Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
The Tri-Nations Rugby competition began in 1996 and involves the national teams of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. New Zealand has won the competition 9 times, Australia and South Africa have each won twice. Of the 56 tests played in the competition, New Zealand has won 56, Australia 23 and South Africa 21.
Actually look at it this way, ALL the schools in South Africa has rugby as a sport, the amount of schools who has soccer as a sport is substantially less, the population didn't even know much about soccer until we hosted the world cup. Our rugby teams actually compete on a high level, win games and claim titles. Rugby has been South Africa's national sport for decades and still is, soccer has to earn it's place before it can ever come close to becoming the national sport. According to the IRB South Africa has 434,219 registered players and 4100 Registered coaches which exclude those playing it at school. Not only that but the rugby competitions hosted by south Africa outnumbers the amount of soccer competitions. That in which we represent our country best in on an international level is without a doubt rugby.
The South African cricket team are nicknamed the Proteas. The national rugby team are nicknamed the Springboks. There are other teams such a the Kaiser Chiefs who are a famous South African football team.