- İstanbul Ottomans
…Expand|date=September 2007Rugby team
teamname = İstanbul Ottomans
fullname = İstanbul Ottomans Rugby Football Club
nickname = The Ottomans, Jannisaries
colors = red and black
founded = 1999
ground = none
location =Istanbul ,Turkey
country
coach = flagicon|TurkeyHakan Ünsal
league = none
url = www.ottomansrugby.com
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socks2 = 000000İstanbul Ottomans are the first ever Turkish
rugby union team, having been established in 1999. Founded by mostly French and English rugby lovers working and living inİstanbul , the Ottomans were up until recently, the only chapter in the history of Turkish rugby prior to the foundation of Turkey's second rugby club,Kadıköy Rugby .Another first of the İstanbul Ottomans was to win the very first official Turkish Rugby Union competition in the year of 2007 / 2008.
The club has participated in a number of tournaments taking place both in Turkey and abroad, and has formidably good relations with the rugby clubs of neighboring countries. With most of its players having played rugby way back since their junior years, they are a driving force and a role model of experience to other rugby players in Turkey.
The İstanbul Ottomans joined the international
Ameland Beach Rugby Festival in The Netherlands in June 2008, as a first Turkish team ever to participate in this tournament. Out of the 64 teams within the 2-day competition, the İstanbul Ottomans just missed out a place on the podium and became 4th.Current squad
External links
* [http://www.ottomansrugby.com İstanbul Ottomans Official Website]
* [http://groups.google.com/group/istanbulottomans İstanbul Ottomans Official Mail Group]
* [http://www.tbsf.org.tr Turkish Federation of Baseball, Softball, Rugby and American Football]
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