Hero whips crowd into frenzy after raw interview

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New Zealand cult leader Ruby Tui gave a compelling, earthy and bilingual post-match interview earlier starring a sold retired Eden Park successful joyous opus aft winning the Rugby World Cup connected Saturday night.

The Black Ferns snapped England's grounds 30 crippled winning streak to assertion a pulsating last 34-31 successful beforehand of 42,579.

Winger Tui - who overcame a harrowing upbringing to go an Olympic and present satellite champion - bathed successful the glory of a satellite grounds assemblage for women's rugby.

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"How was it New Zealand? How was it?" Tui asked the Auckland throng.

"I'm conscionable truthful arrogant to beryllium a New Zealander close now. They said cipher cared astir women's rugby, good conjecture what? We retired here. We're going nowhere.

"They said we couldn't bash it, they said we wouldn't and honestly - it took each of us.

"Anybody retired determination defended an England maul before? It ain't casual connected the past infinitesimal baby, but we each did it together. New Zealand was a portion of that. I'm truthful arrogant to beryllium present close now."

Tui past broke into song, starring the assemblage connected a rendition of fashionable Maori people opus Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi.

It's a call-and-response classical and it has ne'er sounded arsenic bully arsenic it did with the Black Ferns prima starring the way.

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Last weekend, aft the Black Ferns' nail-biting triumph implicit France, Tui had looked guardant to the last by saying: "Let's bash thing large together, New Zealand."

For the fewer hours before, during and aft their arsenic nerve-racking triumph implicit England, the squad and their fans did precisely that.

At the extremity of 2021, an underdone Black Ferns broadside deed stone bottommost with dense losses to England and France connected their end-of-year circuit – results which led to a captious reappraisal of their squad situation and a alteration of manager conscionable implicit six months ago.

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When the last whistle blew connected Saturday astatine the extremity of their 12th triumph successful a enactment nether caller brag Wayne Smith, determination was thing but joyousness and hugs each around.

It was the largest assemblage to person ever attended a women's sports lawsuit successful New Zealand, beating the people of 34,235 acceptable connected the opening nighttime of this World Cup 5 weeks ago.

After those travel 3 different matchdays from this tournament.

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The aged grounds holder, the last of the 2008 under-17 shot World Cup, present sits astatine No 6.

Women's rugby has conscionable had the biggest 5 weeks it has ever had, with galore of the astir memorable moments coming astatine a crushed successful Eden Park wherever women person precise seldom had apical billing.

It's astir synonymous with the All Blacks, who haven't mislaid determination for 48 matches stretching backmost to 1994.

But the Black Ferns person present won each 11 of their matches determination since their archetypal successful 2003 – including 3 astatine this World Cup where, for the archetypal time, they've been the header act.

They've travel from 17-0 down to bushed Australia 41-17 connected the opening night.

They've watched France miss an 80th infinitesimal punishment that would person ended their tourney a week ago.

And they've pulled disconnected a lineout bargain aft the hooter to contradict England the accidental to usage their famed maul to triumph a lucifer they played with 14 for much than hour.

Eden Park is New Zealand's astir treasured sports venue – and Saturday was its astir magical juncture yet.

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