Transferring Money From India To Usa

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Transferring Money From India To Usa

Transferring Money From India To Usa

Greg is Rugby India's full-time Development Manager. In his native New Zealand, rugby is, by far, the most popular sport. In India approximately 17,200 players are registered across all forms of the game. That includes the full-contact fifteen-a-side version, Rugby Sevens, and the non-contact versions of the game; touch and tag rugby.

India's Rugby Development Manager

Yet Greg is optimistic that rugby can take off in India, “we don’t have to grow much for rugby to be massive. If we could get 100,000 players - a minute portion of the population – we’d be one the top ten nations in terms of the numbers of active players. If I can have 50,000 players here in five years, I’d be very, very happy.”

The Development Manager believes that rugby has what it takes to appeal to sport loving Indians. Rugby has a reputation as a tough, contact sport. It demands physical fitness and athletic ability from its players. Playing helps to develop physiques and self-confidence; qualities that also look good on the silver screen. Rahul Bose, a movie actor, is one of India’s best known rugby players of recent years. For a time he captained the national team.

International Player Base Expansion

Trends abroad suggest that the player base will expand quickly once a concerted effort is made to develop the structure of the sport. “Whenever the game has been introduced into countries, it has taken off hugely. In the USA, rugby is now one of the major college sports and colleges are employing rugby coaches. A high school competition has also been set up. Look at China, it’s a huge sport there. Japan has 160,000 players and Sri Lanka 90,000 players: it’s the national winter sport there and regularly seen played on the beaches,” says Greg, who aims to put in place the coaching and administrative infrastructure to ensure that similar growth can be emulated here.

But isn’t rugby, as a contact sport, simply too dangerous to have mass appeal? There’s a huge misnomer about that, thinks Greg: “It’s proven that rugby is not a dangerous sport; no more so than sports such as soccer or hockey or horse riding. The New Zealand Rugby Union have done many, many surveys on this and they have consistently shown that rugby is not a dangerous sport.”

Careful Exposure to the Game

Coaches and rugby development officers are careful to introduce newcomers to contact only after basic skills - such as ball handling, passing and tackling - have been learned and practised many times in training sessions. Tackles are prohibited in touch rugby, which has proved itself a good way for new players to improve their fundamental skills, sense of movement and teamwork. It has become a popular unisex sport in countries such as Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.