Major League Rugby 2022 Final New York City Seattle

25 juin 2022

Red Bull Arena Harrison

ENG

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Warming-up for the Major League Rugby championship game, Rugby New York wore t-shirts proclaiming themselves “Iron Workers”, a team identity built on the blue-collar battalions who built New York City itself. The small crowd at the Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey indicated the work ahead if MLR is to become a major player on the US stage, never mind the world, before a Rugby World Cup in 2031. But then, the city back over the Hudson wasn’t always full of skyscrapers. Someone had to put them up. After New York’s victory over the Seattle Seawolves, outside a locker room drenched in champagne, New York’s chief executive, Ric Salizzo, told the Guardian: “We knew that there were lots of people watching back home” – in New Zealand, source of the spine of the team – “and watching in the UK and Ireland, and we wanted to show them American rugby is on the way up.”If so, this was the place to show it: a season finale on Fox. From the off, New York and Seattle, twice champions before, gave it all they could. Both teams attacked. Both sets of fans made noise.

New York, which lost in the conference finals in 2019 and 2021, finished the regular season third in the Eastern Conference at 11-5, beating Rugby ATL and the New England Free Jacks before playing Seattle in the final. After NYCFC’s victory in the MLS Cup back in December, it’s the second recent title for the NYFC, though neither have come in one of the four major sports.

Marty Veale, the New York head coach, was once a fearsome lock forward in New Zealand, Japan and England, where he played a couple of seasons for Wasps. Amid the sprayed champagne and shotgunned beers of the locker room, he summed up in suitably hard-nosed style.“We got to the business end and we played finals footy and we were good for three weeks in a row. That was all we needed.”