World champion Springboks seek first Rugby Championship title since 2019
Associated PressWELLINGTON, New Zealand — South Africa has won two World Cup titles since it last lifted the Rugby Championship trophy in 2019. The All Blacks host Argentina later the same day in Wellington as the Southern Hemisphere nations enter a new phase of the rebuilding process that has followed the last World Cup in France in 2023 in which South Africa beat New Zealand in the final. South Africa hasn’t always placed a high emphasis on the Rugby Championship which, since 2019, has been won four times by New Zealand. He is not someone who has just fallen into our system.” Schmidt also has introduced many new players as he works to rebuild the Wallabies after last year’s poor performances, highlighted by their early demise at the World Cup when they failed to make it out of the group stage for the first time.