The Super Oz Is On a World Cup Mission

27 July 2011

The Super Oz Is On a World Cup Mission

Who better to prepare us for this exciting event than the Super Oz himself!

“Having played in two world cups I can tell you right now that nothing beats the sheer excitement especially in the build up to the tournament’s kick off. Nothing, that is, except coming on a road trip with the Super Oz,” Osborne says.

“You bring your laughing gear and I’ll bring my boots on a very special hikoi to help spread the word – The World Cup is coming! And I’m going to make sure the Maori rugby clubs of Aotearoa are prepared!”

In Bring Your Boots Oz – The World Cup edition, Osborne has the pride of Aoteaora resting on his shoulders after being given a high-level mission: Infiltrate the many Maori clubs around the motu and get them up to speed with the tikanga of the international teams coming to their rohe.

Over 13 fun-filled episodes, he sniffs out teammates with whakapapa connections to visiting nations, coaches his new club in the waiata, cuisine and reo of their manuhiri and helps them dream up a host of creative ways to make their high profile guests feel at home.

From a bout of Greco-Roman wrestling ahead of the Georgian team’s visit to the Wairarapa to an impromptu lesson in Cossack dancing in celebration of the Russian invasion of Taranaki, Osborne is pulling out all the stops to build bridges between our local clubs and our international visitors.

Television’s best looking presenter “The Super Oz” is as sharp, funny and deadly on the park as ever, and with a whole new set of clubs to join, and new cultures to explore, Bring Your Boots Oz is as entertaining and as fresh as sports entertainment telly gets; a truly tantalising appetiser to Rugby World Cup 2011.

Bring Your Boots Oz, the World Cup edition starts on Sunday 14 August at 7pm

Episode 1-3 billings:

EPISODE ONE: PAROA RUGBY CLUB – Sunday 14 August, 7pm

Series two kicks-off in style when Glen Osborne is given a top-level mission by a mystery contact in the bowels of Eden Park, which sends him charging off to the Paroa Rugby Club in the region hosting Ireland’s clash with Samoa, the Bay of Plenty.

EPISODE TWO: CLIFTON RUGBY CLUB – Sunday 21 August, 7pm

Oz brings his boots and his ushanka hat to the Clifton Rugby Club the stronghold of Te Atiawa rugby in Waitara. With the Russian’s soon to face the U.S. in New Plymouth, Oz tracks down a local Russian woman to teach him the ways of Russian cuisine and of course how to leap like a Cossack!

EPISODE THREE: PIO PIO RUGBY CLUB – Sunday 28 August, 7pm

Embracing the Fijian World Cup team won’t be hard for the Maori rugby club Pio Pio in the King Country – they’re coached by a Fijian. Oz helps make up the numbers in a team battling through a player shortage, and learns the secrets of the Fijian lovo a ground oven with striking similarities to the Hangi.

ENDS

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