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Welcome to the home of The Ottomans |
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The founding fathers of the Istanbul Ottomans R.F.C. - Marc Mercier, Dennis Ponds de Vier and Chris Skirrow - decided in 1999 to write history in Turkey. Being in a country where sports like football, basketball, wrestling, and weightlifting are very popular, it must have been odd enough that there was no rugby at all in this country. Soon they realized that they've made the right choice. Not only became the Ottomans a full team, they've also inspired others to team up as well |
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Ottomans vs. Samsun Semifinal Match |
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 Last weekend Ottomans went to Samsun to meet a strong opponent on the field. The trip was very comfortable thanks to our great sponsor AYGAZ. It was a very good day of Rugby. It was a very tough match against a fit and strong opponent. Final score was 31-12. There were two tries from Ottomans by Emre SSS and Altuğ. One succesful conversion by Emre SSS. All points were scored at the first half.
Third time in a row Ottomans lost a game in the second half. Man of the match from our side was Samet. He by far was the best Ottoman on the field. And one more plus he kept his nerves from start to the end.
This match an ottomans record was broken; the fewest number of non-Turkish citizens involved in a game; 2 (We are still confused if Hannes aka. Urfalı is Turkish or not). Third half was great as usual. Although we could not taste the wonderful Pide, we had enough of other stuff to keep our pain away until Sunday noon time.
Line up : Orhan (Yiğit) , Melih, Sertaç (Atilla), Coşkun (Gürhan) , Fuat (Oğuzhan), Cansın, Altuğ, Valerio (Emre Bozoglu), Deniz K., Alistair, Emre SSS, Samet, Özer, Hannes (Aytaç), Onur (Ulaş).
Line judge: Kubilay
Trainers; Hakan, Salih
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3. Istanbul 7's Tournament approaches!! |
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The date of the 3. International Istanbul Rugby Sevens Tournament has been announced. The tournament is going to be on 5-6 May 2012. Like the former tournaments we are going to enjoy a multinational Rugby weekend. Teams which would like to join this years tournament can make their applications via Facebook or contact the organization comitee. |
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