After Chile beats US on rugby I read an article and the plans to improve the Rugby as one of the mainstream, right now rugby is not professional but they have an amateur league and a college league of about 300.000 participants
Yes but you cannot compare US has 400 million people and at least 200 million watch NFL, NHL, MLS. they invest tons of money in that and they have the double in profit
Financially non sport cane compare whit astronimisc money in football, besides in USA MLB, NFL,and NBA has a lots of moneyh, NHL cant reach it not talking about MLS
Japanese invested a lot of money and they national competition, you can get rich there, many wanna play there, like in 90's best Brazilian old timer football players went there
Now the national Japanese Rugby team made a big jump from the bottom of the last row on rugby to the second row and in the england WC they won SA, I think that was their peak
Yes the premiership is the essence of the real RU Japanese Rugby is good but they made a big investment on bring players from NZ, SA, AUT and Europe to made a competitive league but I’ve never seen an game from them