Welcoming Barbie to our Girls’s Rugby World Cup Fan Zone

England Rugby’s girls’s crew, the Red Roses, have partnered with Mattel Inc.’s Barbie® model forward of an thrilling summer time of rugby.

The announcement marks Barbie UK’s first-ever partnership with a sports activities crew and goals to encourage the following era of feminine rugby gamers by way of grassroots initiatives, funding, merchandise, and highly effective storytelling.

Hello Barbie!

Look out for Barbie on the RFU’s Activation on the metropolis’s official Fan Zone in Victoria Gardens from 4 to 7 September.

The Fan Zone contains a vary of free leisure, sports activities and video games, in addition to food and drinks from native enterprise operators together with an enormous display screen the place residents, buddies and rugby followers from everywhere in the world can watch rugby matches totally free.

Once in a era

Council Leader Bella Sankey stated: “Following the overwhelming success of England’s Lionesses changing into European champions for a second time, we’re thrilled to be a part of the world’s subsequent main girls’s sporting occasion and to welcome the Red Roses to the town.

“We are decided for residents and guests to have the possibility to return collectively and have fun this once-in-a-generation occasion.

“Brighton & Hove is named a various place with a ardour for tradition, creativity and quirkiness – and our Fan Zone will replicate this. 

“We’ll be pulling out the stops to make sure visitors from all nations feel at home, while inspiring women and girls from the city and beyond to get involved with rugby.” 

Free actions on supply on the four-day Fan Zone embrace: dance courses, sports activities and video games, friendship bracelet and badge making, face paint and glitter, reside music, DJs and extra. 

See the complete programme right here.

Matches being hosted on the Brighton & Hove Albion Stadium are:

• Saturday 6 September England vs Australia (kick-off 5pm)
• Sunday 7 September New Zealand vs Ireland (kick-off 2.45pm)

The 4 visiting groups embrace the present World Cup title holders, New Zealand, whereas England’s Red Roses enter the event because the highest-ranking England crew (both males’s or girls’s) in historical past.