First Female Rugby Match in Spain

Translated by Google Translate.

from Una Chica Nunca:
We resume our “History of Rugby” in the early years of the 70’s.

The first rugby match in Spain was documented in Avilés, including the team of Systematic and Gerundinas , the March 18, 1971 in La Vanguardia.

In that year, in June, another article about female rugby appeared on ABC …

“ALSO WOMEN RUGBY”
It is best to smile. Why not have women playing football or rugby? Do you preclude any law? It is best you smile and leave the mess nothing flashy, of course, a rugged player. In France, several clubs have been born female rugby and immediately have begun the fighting. This we gather today belongs to two Parisian university teams. The mud got else: beautiful legs, beautiful faces soon recimieron impacts mud, unlike cosmetics, create something unfeminine in those who unfortunately suffer. See these pages what a woman should never do if you want to look pretty to her fans. And before you decide whether to give the green light to Women’s Rugby.

The “give green light” referred, intuit, club rugby architecture that according to sources , began his training in the early 70’s.

We finished the first half of the 70 with a nod to the French Women’s Rugby, this time in the Mundo Deportivo on May 16, 1974. The reporters, covering a tournament in Gaul who took part in the Swim Club Barcelona, ​​also witnessed an encounter female who left the following account:

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