Japan Crashed South Africa: Most Memorable Moment in World Cup Rugby 2015

The World Cup Rugby in England opened with the biggest upset in the history of rugby - Japan crashing South Africa in its opening game. That was a sensational event then and still is, as the rugby fans of the world picked over the internet, November 1, Japan's victorious game against South Africa in Round 1 of the London game this year the most memorable moment in eight  World Cup Games so far.

In fact, few of us had figured Japanese ruggers would outperform footballers in a world scene, much less beat South Africa, equivalent to Brazil in the game of soccer. The day Japan downed South Africa, the game of rugby turned a national sport overnight in Japan. Goromaru's praying style, not playing, mark you, suddenly became a favorite posture of every Japanese child.

Built not quite rugby-worthy, Japanese players need extra tricks to tackle bullish opponents. Coach Jones trained them hard to give them just that - tacking knee down. The game against South Africa was a testing ground for that extra trick; the South African ruggers learned for the first time bullish physique can be vulnerable.

Now, Goromaru personally shined as he was nominated into the Best Fifteen of the Rugby World Cup England 2015. To refresh your memory, he scored in Japan's Round 1 game against South Africa a try to start and succeeded both goal and penalty kicks totaling 24 points to lead Japan to a sensational victory over South Africa, In the 4 games in Round 1, Goromaru scored a total of 58 points -second place in all players of the 20 teams.

It is a coincidence that Coach Jones now goes to South Africa to coach the team he had led the Team Japan to beat in England.