Coming our way - 2007 Rugby World Cup

The 2007 Rugby World Cup will be the sixth Rugby World Cup, for the quadrennial world championship. It will be hosted by France from September 7 to October 20 of 2007. France won the right to host the event in 2003, beating a bid from England.

Over 90 nations participated in the regional qualifying competitions that started in 2004. The eight quarter-finalists from the 2003 event automatically qualified, twelve further nations have qualified. Portugal is the only debutant nation at the 2007 World Cup and the first ever completely amateur team to compete at such a high level.

This World Cup will have 20 nations contesting 48 matches over 44 days. Forty-two matches will be spread between ten French cities, with four matches to be held in Cardiff, Wales and two matches in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Meanwhile, we leave you with the famous Haka, a traditional dance form of the Māori of New Zealand, done by the New Zealand team, known as the All Blacks, in the beggining of the games, that is so cool and intimidating and that we look forward to see on the 15th September when Portugal faces this team on the World Cup



And here's the Haka done by the All Blacks team and the Tonga team when they faced each other