New Zealand Sports

Colin Meads

The whole world knows Rugby.

This is not strictly correct. To say that "the whole world knows Rugby" is to make an assumption that is not based on fact. Given the millions of people in remote areas of Asia and Africa, it would actually be less than 50% of the world who know about Rugby. this is also factoring the millions of people in developed nations who neither know about, nor care about, the existence of Rugby.

New Zealand joint-hosted the 1987 Rugby World Cup, as well as hosting the 2011 Rugby World Cup in their own right.

1903 in Australia they were named the Originals at that time

David Kirk captained the team for the 1987 World Cup Squad

They have won the tri nations, world cup (2) and many small other games in rugby.

They have also won the netball world cup.

They have won cricket tests.

They have won sailing competitions

They have won olympic medals.

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Zac Guildford

New Zealand first created a side for touring in 1905 - they were then called "The Originals". . It was a Dorset journalist that coined the phrased name we know today. However, it was by accident as he phoned his report over after a match and said the visitors playing like all backs (referring to their speed) It was heard as the players were playing like All Blacks. The name stuck

Assuming you mean in the union code; The first New Zealand touring side to travel abroad went to New South Wales in 1884 and won all 8 games, which included three games with a New South Wales Representative side. 167 points were scored to 17. However, the first New Zealand touring side under the control of the New Zealand RFU, visited New South Wales & Queensland, Australia in 1893. Sadly this side was still not fully representative of the greater New Zealand since three unions were not included in the selection i.e. Otago, Canterbury & Southland (they joined the NZ union in 1895). Despite this, the tourists won 9 out of 10 games, 168 points to 44.

The first New Zealand representative rugby team to tour beyond Australia were called "The Natives", they played their first game in Britain on 3 October 1888. The Natives had originally been called New Zealand Maori. After five Pakeha were selected to strengthen the touring party it was renamed by its promoter on the basis that all 26 team members were New Zealand born. In fact two had in fact been born overseas. Most of the team assembled at a training camp near Napier in May 1888, and they played their first match against Hawke's Bay on 23 June.

The name "All Blacks" did not appear anywhere until 1905 when the tourists visted Devon in the UK and a reporter refered to the new strip which was now ALL BLACK rather than white shorts and navy blue tops . The phrase "All Blacks " stuck for the remainder fo that tour where the press continued to refer to the team as "The All Blacks"

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Daniel Vettori

he has been an all black for 10 years

Hes reported to have started playing rugby at the age of 10 in 1992

Loads of people whoever wrote this is thick

JP Pieterson

212 Wickets from 53 Tests

the current All Black captain is Richard 'Richie' McCaw'

Obviously it depends how good you are. The better you are the more you get but almost all rugby players at the top still have to work in another job after they have retired from rugby to get enough for there pension! So put it this way, they don't as much as puffy footballers

The New Zealand Rugby team is referred to as All Blacks. The first New Zealand team to be referred to as All Blacks was the 1905-1906 Original team when they toured France and Britain. The team was referred to as All Blacks due to the color of their uniforms, which was a black jersey with a silver fern and white knickerbockers.

The Rose is the National Flower of England

So far Richie McCaw has scored 21 tries for the all blacks in 123 appearances.