- published: 05 Jun 2015
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Samoa Rules is a game derived from Australian rules football and rugby union that is occasionally played in Samoa.
Generally the rules are taken from Aussie Rules, but each team consists of 15 players, like rugby union.
Unlike Australian rules football, player movement is restricted to zones (similarly to Rec Footy). There is a line across the centre that backs and forwards can not cross. Onballers[clarification needed] are allowed to go anywhere. Forwards can only operate in their attacking half, the backs in their defensive half. Like Gaelic football, players are permitted to bounce the ball only once while running, in order to encourage kicking.
The game is played on rugby union fields, sometimes a single one, or two side by side. This means the pitch is rectangular, rather than oval, like an Aussie rules one.
The Vailima Six-Shooters' Championship began in Samoa in 1998 under these rules, becoming known as Samoa Rules. A number of Samoa Rules players went on to represent Samoa in the Samoan national Australian rules football team, known originally as the Bulldogs and since 2008 as the "Kangaroos".
Samoa (i/səˈmoʊ.ə/; Samoan: Sāmoa, IPA: [ˌsaːˈmoa]), officially the Independent State of Samoa (Samoan: Malo Sa'oloto Tuto'atasi o Sāmoa), formerly known as Western Samoa, is a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It became independent from New Zealand in 1962. The two main islands of Samoa are Upolu and one of the biggest islands in Polynesia, Savai'i. The capital city, Apia, and Faleolo International Airport are situated on the island of Upolu.
Samoa was admitted to the United Nations on 15 December 1976. The entire island group, inclusive of American Samoa, was called Navigators Islands by European explorers before the 20th century because of the Samoans' seafaring skills.
The oldest date so far from pre-historic remains in Samoa has been calculated by New Zealand scientists to a likely true age of circa 3,000 years ago from a Lapita site at Mulifanua during the 1970s.
The origins of the Samoans is closely linked to modern research about Polynesia in various scientific disciplines such as genetics, linguistics and anthropology. Scientific research is ongoing although a number of different theories exist; including one proposing that the Samoans originated from Austronesian predecessors during the terminal eastward Lapita expansion period from Southeast Asia and Melanesia between 2,500 and 1,500 BCE. The Samoan origins are currently being reassessed due to new scientific evidence and carbon dating findings from 2003 and onwards.
Con una mirada mis palabras sin decirme nada
Que me dicen dentro de mi alma
Y vives en mi pensamiento
Tu dulce mirada me provoca y me lleva a la cima
Ahora se lo que se siente amor a primera vista.
Es que en tus ojos hay palabras que me llegan
Que me dicen que tu alma es pura y buena.
Coro:
Me enamore perdidamente de tus ojos
En tu mirada hay algo que me vuelve loco
Robarte un beso esta en mis planes desde ahora
Te dare rosas para ver si te enamoras.
Me enamore y todavia ya no te conozco
Que pensaras si te declaro y te propongo
Que seas mi novia y por ti lo dejo todo
Lo dejo todo, lo dejo todo.
Es que en tus ojos hay palabras que me llegan
Que me dicen que tu alma es pura y Buena.
Coro:
Me enamore perdidamente de tus ojos
En tu mirada hay algo que me vuelve loco
Robarte un beso esta en mis planes desde ahora
Te dare rosas para ver si te enamoras.
Me enamore y todavia ya no te conozco
Que pensaras si te declaro y te propongo
Que seas mi novia y por ti lo dejo todo
Lo dejo todo, lo dejo todo.
Que pensaras si te confieso que en mi sueno
Siempre estas tu y que quisiera ser tu dueno.
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