Italy vs New Zealand – Rugby test match

Roma, november17, 2012

The last rugby match i saw by the All Blacks was: Kiwi vs Ireland, june 2012, final score 80-0. Ireland shattered. Italian Rugby national team is not stronger than Ireland… i was afraid to suffer a sad defeat, but the match really touched me. Maybe the All Blacks didn’t play with their best men, but Italy showed a good attitude to campete against the world champions.

Italy slid down 0-10 after 15 minutes, but with the controll of the match, NZ played a lot of mistakes and unexpected fails, maybe they played with a wrong mind. Italy scored an unbelievable try after a strong offensive drive at the 30′ minute. NZ pushes the score with field goal kick and at the half the score was 6-13.

Really full of hope, the italian team began the second part of the game but the All Blacks scored again after 10 minutes and the little revenge of the local blues was with a great 3 point field kick. 10-23.

The match ended here and the party of the rugby opened the coming night, final score 10-42. Something truely unexpected: 70.000 people in the Rome Olympic stadium went out, slowly together, smiling each other…