Kick Off '99 magazine, Number 6, October 1998 – official magazine of Rugby World Cup 1999 Wales: Tournament Fever, qualifying rounds, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Namibia, Morocco, Rugby for Africa

Kick Off '99, Number 6, October 1998: The Official Magazine of RWC 1999, the Rugby World Cup hosted by Wales, published in Cardiff by Rugby Solutions Ltd under editor Chris Thau, with assistance from the European Regional Development Fund. Cover: 'Tournament Fever – Australia, Fiji, Western Samoa and Namibia through to the finals, Tonga and Morocco in the Repechage', with 'exclusive coverage of all RWC qualifying rounds' and Wallaby line-out action on the cover. Contents, issue 6: Who's Scored What and How (page 2); News Round-Up (4); the Pacific Tournament – Wallaby class, Fijian joy, Samoan grit and Tongan reprieve (6); World Cup venues, Lens and Leicester (14); the poster competition, with more entries from the schools (16); the African Tournament – Casablanca revisited and Morocco's desert rugby factory (18); When Negative Is Positive, part two of a drugs warning (26); Memorabilia – coaster bravo (27); My Wales, with John Dawes, captain of the 1971 Lions (28); and the Wales Tourist Board page, in which Jonathan Davies talks golf (28). The lead article, 'Rugby for Africa', reports on the International Rugby Board's development programme for the continent, with IRB chairman Vernon Pugh QC and the Confederation of African Rugby meeting in Casablanca, and a tribute to the Moroccan media support team. Contributors include Michael Anderson, Mike Burrows, Jonathan Davies, Alan Evans, Stuart Farmer and Greg Thomas. 32 pages, 21 x 29.7 cm, full colour. A scarce issue from the build-up to the 1999 Rugby World Cup, the tournament that opened the new Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, documenting the qualifying campaigns of the emerging nations – Namibia, Morocco, Fiji, Samoa and Tonga – that rarely feature in mainstream rugby magazines. THEMES: Rugby World Cup 1999, RWC qualifying, Wales 1999, Pacific Islands rugby, African rugby, Morocco and Namibia, IRB development, rugby memorabilia.

Author: Chris Thau (ed.)

Publisher: Rugby Solutions Ltd

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Used - Very Good