A Deep Financial Crisis and Significant Casualties: Samoa's Free Fall Contrasting with the Success of the Condors

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To talk about Samoa is to do it about a power in rugby. A story that began with the introduction of this sport by the Marista Brothers in 1924, giving rise to a long tradition that was greatly benefited by the privileged biotype of its players for this discipline, something very typical of the Pacific Islands. Fervor is such that today rugby is Samoa’s national sport, with approximately 5,000 active players from a total population of 200,000 inh…