New Zealand’s All Blacks Confront a Worrisome Prospect: Decline
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on December 3, 2022
But New Zealand has changed. While rugby still fascinates many, the number of men who play the game is dropping as interest in other sports grows. (Women’s rugby, by contrast, is growing fast.) In 2018, for example, the number of young people playing basketball for their school overtook the number playing rugby for the first time, according to School Sport New Zealand, which coordinates high school sports in the country. A separate . . .