Spain will not play the world de rugbi de France 2023. Finally, the Spanish team has been deprived of the place it won in the field due to the misalignment of the South African Gavin van den Berg, player ofAlcobendas Rugbywho played the matches in front Netherlands with the XV of the Lion.
The independent committee appointed by World Rugby, which they formed Nigel Hampton, Pamela Woodman i Frank Haddenhas responded to the claim made by the federations of Romania i Portugal in the offices. The disqualification of the Spaniards directly classifies the Romanians and puts the Portuguese in the fight for the second leg.
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The Federation consulted a World Rugby in its day the possibility of aligning vanderberg, who did not have a passport and provided photocopies as documentation without certification. The Federation gave validity to the documents for the player to act in Alcobendas with the F, as assimilated, but some posts on social media raised the alarms because the player was in South Africa in a period that was supposed, for the documentation , which was to be in Spain. This provoked the claim of Romania and Portugal, and more than the Spanish Federation has tried to warn that they were not aware of this fact and that it is a matter for the club and the player, in the end Spain will not be in France.
The Lions had been played by the group along with South Africa, Ireland, Scotland and a fourth that still has to be classified and that theoretically would be one of the selections of the Pacific, Tonga o Samoa. He had to play the matches Bordeaux, the first two, and Lilla, the other two. Now it remains to know the consequences that this decision will have on the Federation, because it must be remembered that Spain was already eliminated in the last classification of the worldfor 2019 in Japan, also due to misalignment of two players of French origin, Bellie i Carpenter.
