Yokohama (Japan) (AFP)
England, who ended the reign of the All Blacks (19-7), qualified for the final of the Rugby World Cup, where the XV of the Rose will face on Saturday, November 2 the winner of the other semifinal, Wales - South Africa, played Sunday.
The English team, the only team in the Northern Hemisphere, already crowned world champion in 2003, is entering for the fourth time a World Cup final; since they had been beaten for the title in 1991 by Australia and in 2007 against South Africa.
The All Blacks give up their crown, conquered in 2011 and kept four years later. They remained on 18 World Cup victories, since their defeat in the quarter-finals of the 2007 edition against France.
The English are found in the final, while at the previous edition in 2015, they had been unable to get out of their hen. Aggravating circumstance: They were organizing the World Cup and the premature elimination had caused a serious questioning of English rugby, whose coach Stuart Lancaster had been replaced by Eddie Jones, already finalist in 2003 with Australia and crowned in 2007 as assistant coach of South Africa Jake White.
Welsh or Springboks? They will know their opponents Sunday, after the second semifinal, played in Yokohama (10:00).
In the event of Welsh success, the final would pit two teams from the Northern Hemisphere, which would be a first in nine World Cup editions. Conversely, a Sunday South African success would lead to an England-Springbok final, as in 2007.
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