{"id":73185,"date":"2016-09-03T02:23:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T00:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/?p=73185"},"modified":"2017-07-17T16:47:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T14:47:38","slug":"rugby-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/rugby-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Join a rugby team in Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Sport<\/strong>, in recent years, has been dominated by<strong> football<\/strong> in<strong> Spain<\/strong>. The sport has gained much interest locally and worldwide, becoming a large industry, particularly in Barcelona, where the largest <strong>venue<\/strong> for this (Camp Nou) is situated. More <strong>traditional sports<\/strong>, such as bull-fighting and fencing have perhaps been pushed aside to make way for this game from <strong>England<\/strong>. Another style of football, <strong>rugby<\/strong> football has also become of interest to some of the cities inhabitants, especially as the number of British <strong>expats<\/strong> is on the rise.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_17 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-grey\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class=\"ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1\"><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/rugby-barcelona\/#What_is_it\" title=\"What is it?\">What is it?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/rugby-barcelona\/#Want_to_play\" title=\"Want to play?\">Want to play?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/rugby-barcelona\/#Other_events\" title=\"Other events\">Other events<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_it\"><\/span>What is it?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_73188\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73188\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-73188\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/rugby-ball-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by robinbye via VisualHunt\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-73188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by robinbye via VisualHunt<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rugby football is a type of game which originated in a school in the town of Rugby in <strong>Warwickshire<\/strong>, England. It is played with an <strong>oval ball<\/strong> which may be kicked, carried and passed from hand to hand with points (tries) being scored by grounding the ball behind an opponent&#8217;s goal line. There are two main types of rugby &#8211; <strong>rugby league<\/strong> and<strong> rugby union<\/strong>, both having a different set of rules.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Related article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/barcelona-for-sports-fans\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barcelona for sports fans<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Want_to_play\"><\/span>Want to play?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong>main team<\/strong> in Barcelona is <a href=\"https:\/\/fcbrugby.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">FC Barcelona rugby<\/a>, who play Rugby Union rules at a <strong>professional <\/strong>level. But there are some smaller teams within the complex that are always open to <strong>new<\/strong> <strong>members<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_73187\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73187\" class=\"wp-image-73187 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/rugby-players-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by KRB events via Visual hunt\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-73187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by KRB events via Visual hunt<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of these teams is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buc.cat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Barcelona universitari club<\/a>, situated on Cam\u00ed de la Foixarda, at Montjuic. They have <strong>equipment<\/strong> and <strong>training<\/strong> for all ages and level of ability, with seniors meeting Monday, Wednesday and Friday 20:30 \u2013 22:30, women meeting on the same days 20:00 \u2013 22:00, 18 year olds meeting on Wednesdays and Fridays 19:00 \u2013 22:30 and children meeting Monday and Wednesday from 18:00 \u2013 20:00. They also have touch rugby meetings on Monday and Friday 19:00 \u2013 21:00, and general training <strong>sessions<\/strong> at the<strong> weekends<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Please email: secretaria@buc.cat for more info.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you fancy something that is not quite so <strong>physical<\/strong> there is also a <a href=\"https:\/\/touchbcn.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">touch rugby meet-up<\/a> based in Barcelona at<strong> UB campus sports<\/strong>, Av. Diagonal. They usually meet up on a Wednesday<strong> evening<\/strong> and have training and <strong>games<\/strong> for males and females of all ages and levels of ability. Please email: touchbcn@gmail.com for more info.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Other_events\"><\/span>Other events<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_73189\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73189\" class=\" wp-image-73189\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/rugby-kids-300x200.jpg\" alt=\" Photo by kelsey e. via Visual hunt\" width=\"219\" height=\"146\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-73189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by kelsey e. via Visual hunt<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As well as the regular team meet ups to be a part of there is also a yearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiarugby.com\/2016\/12\/08\/barcelona-rugby-festival-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Barcelona rugby festival <\/a>which takes place 70km north of the city in the town of Lloret. Now in its 8th year, it will be held between 30th September and 2nd October 2016. The<strong> festival<\/strong> has both <strong>social<\/strong> and <strong>competitive <\/strong>tournaments for both men and women. 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