It is a team contact sport born in England, where it took that name from the rules of football made at the Rugby School in the 19th century. Rugby is practiced internationally in all continents, although it is very popular mainly in the nations that comprise the British islands (Scotland, Wales, England, Ireland and Northern Ireland), as well as in countries like Australia, Fiji, New Zealand , Papua New Guinea, Samoa, South Africa and Tonga, Argentina and in France.