From Phil Caplan Italy, Lebanon, Russia and Serbia have unveiled their squads for next month’s 2013 Rugby League World Cup European Zone Qualifiers. Joint-captained by Anthony Minichello and Cameran Cirarldo, the Italian’s kick off the round robin tournament when they host Russia in Padova on the 15th October. Vice president Fabio Di Pietro noted that being on the road to the World stage is a massive achievement....
By Daniel Andruczyk I am back from my two weeks of travels. I would love to say that its been a nice relaxing time, but I have been hard at work the whole time both in my physics and also Rugby League. Much has been happening in the world of Rugby League, and so lets do a bit of a round up of the last two weeks. Congrats to Simon and Kathy Cooper … and Germany! First up I would like to extend my congratulations...
By Daniel Andruczyk Rugby league is now in full swing around the world. Many countries are into their domestic seasons and on the weekend there were 11 that had matches and there was an international played in France too. In part 2 results for Italy, USA, Russia and New Zealand as well as an international: Italy In Italy the IRFL have launched their competition. Two games were played Catania 4-24 Firenze, Rome 52-4...
PHIL CAPLAN, RLEF MEDIA OFFICER Experienced coach Stuart Wilkinson has completed his first visit to Russia to assess and aid their prospects for the 2013 World Cup. During his five day trip, he spent time with all the RARL clubs observing the domestic state of the sport and offering ideas for improvement in the build up to their World Cup qualifiers in October. “I saw some fantastic potential and some big gaps,”...
FROM: RUSSIAN ASSOCIATION OF RUGBY LEAGUE CLUBS MEDIA DEPARTMENT DATE: 26th May CONTACT: Victor Kraev RLEF Eastern Europe Regional Director Julia Bennison has hailed the successful return of domestic rugby league in Moscow following the launch of the second of three regional conferences in Russia. The competition start and its formal recognition by the ‘Union of National and non-Olympic Sports of...
RLEF Media office, Phil Caplan The Russian Association of Rugby League Clubs, the governing body of the sport in the country, has appointed Englishman Vinny Webb as coach of the national side for this year when Russia will play in the European Zone World Cup qualifiers for the 2013 tournament. Webb, 49, the Rugby Football League’s Head of Coaching, formerly coached Georgia in the 2008 Rugby League World Cup...
By Daniel Andruczyk After the Donnybrook Cup was completed I was able to get a few words from Brendan Guilfoyle the Captain of the Irish Wolfhounds Team, David Niu the Coach of the USA Tomahawks and Neil Wood the RFL’s director of European development. While I was talking with Neil I took the opportunity to ask him about some of the recent developments in Europe with the split in Italy and Russia and got some very...
By Daniel Andruczyk A while back I was reading over some news from last year on the Lebanese website and was reading about the MENA championships last October I noticed something interesting in the last line of the third paragraph. There was a mention of a World Cup Accelerator Program “We welcome Latham Tawhai, to the Cedars ranks and look forward to his influence on our boys and his assistance in pushing them...
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