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    Conexão – Eastbourne’s Brazilian Internationals

    • 15 Jul 2021
    • Wellington Club Weekly
    • By Adam Julian Eastbourne is a long way from Brazil but in 1962 an extraordinary connection started between the Bishop family and the Brazilian national test team. Malcolm Bishop was the first of three Bishop’s to play international rugby for the football mad country. Malcolm was capped in a 13-5 defeat by Uruguay on July 1,...
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    Eastbourne, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

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