sentences:  Portuguese rugby continues to hover around the 6,000 mark, but the main aim at the moment is to improve the national infrastructure, which has partly paid off, since the Portuguese rugby team managed to get into the 2007 Rugby World Cup - the first all amateur team to do so since professionalisation.They were the only new team in the tournament, since all the rest had appeared in the 2003 Rugby World Cup, and they got there by knocking out Uruguay.In 2008 the Portuguese Rugby Federation, the Spanish Rugby Federation, the Gibraltar rugby authority and various clubs agreed to the formation of a "Liga Superibérica" (Super Iberian League), which will operate on a franchise system (similar to rugby league's Super League or Japan's bj league of basketball).