The City With 161 Rugby Clubs and No Rugby Balls — Max Derbyshire (DotDarbs)
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The City With 161 Rugby Clubs and No Rugby Balls — Max Derbyshire (DotDarbs)
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Carl talks to Max Derbyshire, DotDarbs on Instagram, from a borrowed bedroom in Yerevan. Darbs has hitchhiked from Georgia, where he was filming the Didi 10, to spend time with Armenia's rugby community and the Iran national team.
It all started with a phone that went missing in the post and a cheap flight to Madagascar two days later. There he found what's reported to be the city with the most rugby clubs on Earth: kids playing in the streets with water-bottle balls, fifth-tier games on dust pitches with sticks for posts, and flares and pom-poms on final day. Yet you can't buy a rugby ball in a shop.
Before that, India: coaching in Kolkata, the West Bengal women's sevens, more than a day on a train to the nationals, and the story of Sumit Roy, who walked eight kilometres to training and is now one of the stars of the Indian Rugby Premier League.
Plus "small but quick", the Africa Sevens, cycling the length of Madagascar to raise money for rugby balls, and a bucket list running from China to Iraq.
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