From the beginning

The shared in common presence of several women in Tiger district acted ALMOST like trigger for some ex- players of rugby and SIC. "Our women worked in a dining room of Tiger and we said and if we give rugby them to the boys?” . From there, they devised a first encounter in the environs. "We did a morning of rugby in the Rugby Tiger Club, which lent its fields to us, and we invited boys of the zone ", relates Julianes while he remembers that he is not single in this undertaken since also they have active participation Michingo O´Reilly, Carlos Ramallo and Eleonora Jaureguiberry, among others.

Thanks that their friends helped they managed to take the first step. "We could make since CASI and SIC trainers participated from the beginning". Exactly two clubs that have much to do in the formation of the future organization. "To go ahead we were able to get money and the endorsement of CASI and SIC to establish the club".

At the time of needing a playground, a company offered its. "FATE lent us the sports field, to start on, people of rugby joined and we could form the base of our infantile rugby. We played in the beginning with the mixed boys of our club with the others so that they learned better "remembers the president of Virreyes Rugby.

New vision of the same sport

Sometimes happens that the same things that one lives and feels during long time can arise new and different experiences. For example, in the case of the Virreyes Rugby. "It caught us the entire project because it was a way to re discover rugby. In this way we turned ourselves into a club ".

"This is something to explain and see it", recommends Julianes. "After this experience we realized that rugby is natural. These boys did not know anything about the game and they did not have relation with it and they play it like anyone ". Theory that confirms that the playful thing is universal in the human spirit and that they do not make lack social scales to integrate them from the game. "It is seen that among them the game spirit. Boys learn very fast and all collaborate at the time of helping ".

Virreyes Project

The Virreyes Project lodges 300 boys between 7 and 17 years originating of homes of low resources. Today it reaches legal function and position of agent like organization of public good without aims of profit under the name of Virreyes Rugby Club, and since so he has been new recruit in the Union of Rugby of Buenos Aires.

Yet, it is an incipient small school of rugby established in the locality of Virreyes, in San Fernando district, oriented to promote social integration and the construction of communitarian bows through the practice of rugby and the education in its values.

Participation flood

Within the official competition for a year, the new club appeared in society with a single division. "In 2005 we participated in the championship of the URBA with minors of 17 years in Group II. In the beginning we didn’t play very well but we finalized better ". The plans for 2006 contemplate better possibilities. "This year we counted on a M-15, M-16 and the M-17. Today we have to more than 300 boys in the club "something that neither in the optimistic calculations the more had taken place.

"Boys like rugby naturally and they play it with much enthusiasm. Something very positive - we counted with a good amount of trainers who know the boys by their name and know what does each one ". The dedicated attention is very well appreciated since "It is something that boys recognize and causes that they feel very comfortable".