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Captains ready to shoot at World Rugby U20 Trophy in Scotland

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Captains ready to shoot at World Rugby U20 Trophy in Scotland

The eight captains of the World Rugby U20 Trophy 2024 gathered on Saturday at West Sands beach in St Andrews, Scotland, a location famous for the opening scenes of the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire.

  • Eight captains gathered on West Sands beach in St Andrews ahead of the opening day on July 2.
  • Four matches will be played on the opening day at the Hive Stadium with kick-off at 11:45 local time (GMT+1)
  • Tournament to implement and test new laws approved by World Rugby Council
  • Matches can be watched anywhere in the world via broadcast partners or for free on RugbyPass TV.

The eight captains of the 2024 World Rugby U20 Trophy gathered on Saturday at West Sands beach in St Andrews, Scotland, a location famous for the opening scenes of the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire.

The film, released in 1981, immortalized the story of the former Scottish rugby player and Olympic 400m champion at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, the last to feature rugby union. One hundred years later, rugby sevens returns to the French capital at the end of the month with rugby sevens.

Japan and Hong Kong China have the honor of kicking off the U20 Trophy at 11:45 local time (GMT+1) on Tuesday 2 July at the Hive Stadium in Edinburgh, with the former having been relegated after finishing 12th in the U20 World Rugby Championship. 2023 in South Africa.

Japanese captain Yoshiaki Taian said: “We want to do our best to win this tournament so that we can show what we have done for this competition. It is important to win every game, and we would like to win them all and return to the championship.

Tournament hosts Scotland, who finished third in the U20 Trophy in Kenya last year after being relegated from the U20 Championship in 2019, will face Samoa in the other Pool A match at 17:15.

Scotland captain Liam McConnell said: “The whole team are really excited about this home tournament and have been training hard to hope to do something special.

Uruguay, winners of the inaugural U20 Trophy in 2008, will face Kenya in the first match of Pool B at 14:30. The 2012 champions USA will meet tournament debutants Netherlands in the final match of the day at 19:45.

Teritos captain Franco Bertini said: “The team is doing well and we are expecting a good game against Kenya on Tuesday.

“Our hopes, first of all, are to advance match by match, with the format of the tournament you have to focus on the next match because if you lose a match you will miss it. We are putting all our efforts at the moment expectations towards Kenya It would be incredible (to win the tournament), last year we had the chance to go to the U20 Championship but we stayed in the lower competition We all know that is a goal of the. team but for now we are only thinking about our first match against Kenya.

Dutch captain Kit Temperley added: “It’s our first time here, so we’re very, very excited. This is an important event for the country as a whole and we are really looking forward to proving ourselves here. We feel like we should be here and we can’t wait to get started. We take each moment as it comes, we know the level will be high, but we support each other and we can’t wait to show how good we are. »

“People probably say rugby isn’t that big over there (in the Netherlands) and that sort of thing, but it’s definitely growing and we have women in WXV and World Cup qualification , the men will participate in the World Cup qualification and we are here and we believe that our presence should not be taken lightly. We are here to make a statement and we are looking forward to showing ourselves. young generations and all those who will come out of it.

Each team will play three pool matches, with the top teams from Pools A and B contesting the final on 17 July, with the winner securing promotion to the 2024 Rugby World Cup. The teams finishing second, third and fourth in each pool will meet on the same day to determine the final ranking from third to eighth place.

The tournament will be hosted by the World Rugby Council approved fan-focused legislative changes. In addition, six legal trials will be implementedwhich include the simplified red card sanction process.

The full match schedule is available here.

Fans around the world can follow the action via local broadcast partners BBC Alba for Scotland matches and the Japan Rugby Football Union for Japan matches – or free on RugbyPass TV in other markets. A two-hour delay will apply in the UK for all Scotland matches as well as the third-place play-off and the final.

Appointments of match officials

Referees have also been confirmed for the first two rounds, with Ru Campbell (Scotland) in charge of the tournament’s opening match between Japan and Hong Kong, China. Ethan Glass (Switzerland) will referee the Uruguay-Kenya match, while Katsuki Furuse (Japan) will be at center for the Scotland-Samoa match. Morgan White (Hong Kong, China) will be in charge of the final match between the Netherlands and the USA.

The second round, Sunday July 7, will see Sylvain Mané referee the battle between former champions Uruguay and the United States in the opening match before Nicolae Fratila (Romania) takes charge for Scotland against Hong Kong, China. Caua Ricardo (Brazil) is in the middle for another meeting of former champions between Japan and Samoa with Lex Weiner (USA) to referee the Netherlands against Kenya.