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Rugby Union is actually the Rugby union football. It is a field sport played by a group of 15 members.It is one form of full team Rugby sport. This sport was taken from the procedure employed by the Rugby School of England, and from this the game owed the name of Rugby Union. The main dissimilarity between the football or soccer and Rugby Union football is that in soccer the shape of the ball is round while in Rugby the ball has the shape of prolate spheroid.
In the Rugby Union football the participants unlike soccer can both kick the ball and take it on the hand. Rugby Union is a famous sport in all over the world. This sport is most popular in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Fiji, England, Scotland, South Africa Ireland, New Zealand, Samoa, France, Wales and Tonga. There are 95 full members, 20 Associate members and six regional Associations are linked in the Rugby union.
Rugby Union is played between 100 countries of six continents. Both men and women take part in this game. The play ground of Rugby Union is called pitch. The team of Rugby Union comprises of 15 players among them there are eight forwards, have the number from 1 to 8 and seven backs from 9 to 15.
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