German news

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Click on the Website at www.rugby-league.de for the latest news about Rugby League in Germany. By clicking on the website you also help fund Rugby League in Germany especially when you click further on the amazon and google adverts as we get money for each person that does it! The Website is now available in English as well as German

ALPENSTOFF NATIONAL TRAINING CAMP
Dan Stocks and his coaching staff will be holding a National Training Camp in Hochspeyer, Kaiserslautern on the 23 & 24 May. The camp is open to all players who qualify for Germany.

CALENDER (Main Events)

23/24 May--National Camp (Hochspeyer)
30 May--Team Alpenstoff Germany in the Oslo 9s (Oslo)
27/28 June--State of Origin (N?rnberg)4 States play against each other!
4 July--Czech Republic v Germany (Olomouc)
18 July--Germany v Italy (H?rth)
8 August--Belguim XIII v Germany "A" (Brussels)

Also there is now U16s & U18s games and Open Age games happening in Germany. Most of these will be around the Heidelberg, Kaiserslautern, Frankfurt and Karlsruhe area. We have had contact with a couple of amateur clubs in the Halifax area including Greetland Allrounders and King Cross Park and we are hoping that maybe in 2010 or 2011 a Halifax based youth team would do a tour to play in Heidelberg an U16s team or U18s. This is not as easy as getting a team across due to various rules on Child safety and how important it is that people are aware that they are representing Rugby League and England/GB and any trouble (People getting drunk etc) could set Rugby League in Germany back as certain Rugby Union people are looking for any excuse to stop us or cause problems!

More info on the website at www.rugby-league.de

We would like to thank our sponsors:

Alpenstoff Beer...www.alpenstoff.de
Protec-e.K........ www.protec365.de

[DIEHARD]

Great to hear about further rugby league development in one of my fav countries.

Lots of good people involved over there and the RLEF is finally investing some money.

I hate to read about Union sabotague, but our game has dealt with that for 100 years and we will continue to weather it.