President Gabriel Boric received the Condors at La Moneda Palace after winning his place in the Rugby World Cup ‘France 2023’
The Condors visited this Friday the Palace of La Moneda to be received by the President Gabriel Boric, after achieving a historic qualification for the Rugby World Cup ‘France 2023’.
The team led by Pablo Lemoine achieved an exciting victory over the United States, 31-29 in Denver, the first qualification in its history for an Adult World Cup. They will play in Group D with England, Argentina, Samoa and Japan.
Also present at the meeting was the Minister of Sports, Alexandra Benado, who last Tuesday gave a boost to the national team. The Secretary of State promised the Chilean XV to give the National Stadium as the stage for their next matches, mainly the preparatory ones for the event in September and October next year on Gallic soil.
After the meeting at the seat of government, the selected José Ignacio Larenas declared that “thank you for the visit, it is a very nice instance. Over time we realize how transversal the achievement has been, beyond the close group”.
“When we lose we are few and when we win we are many. We are feeling all the effects of this achievement, we are assimilating and appreciating it”, she added.
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President @gabrielboric with the Minister @AleBenadothe undersecretary @AntoIllanesR and the National Director(s) of the @INDChileOficial @IsraelCastro201 receive the rugby team in recognition of their qualification for the 2023 World Cup in France ???? pic.twitter.com/MbWBvFir14
— Ministerio del Deporte (@MindepChile) July 22, 2022
Meanwhile, Minister Benado indicated that “we are happy that the President has received the players, who went through a tremendous process to achieve classification. It was a pleasant and very close meeting. We hope that it will be the definitive takeoff of the development of rugby throughout the country. It is an intense but very respectful sport”.
Regarding the commitment to the Condors, the head of the portfolio said that “we are going to support the process that is coming to prepare for the World Cup and the improvement of the infrastructure of the CAR of La Reina, we will try to design a good project. It is essential to improve the pitch.”
The latter was valued by Larenas. “It is always welcome. We’ve been through a lot, we need more resources to go competethe idea is to set a flag to go from here to all the World Cups”, he pointed out.
today the president @gabrielboric received the Condors @chilerugby Next to the @MindepChile @AleBenado after his historic classification to the world championship. Tremendous pride that they represent Chile in an area as important as sports. Success in France 2023! ???????????? pic.twitter.com/cLtnsNslal
– Presidency of Chile (@Presidencia_cl) July 22, 2022