 
 FIRA Commissioner's Report
on CRF Paphos Sevens
Je suis
arrivé à PHAPOS, Chipre, le jour 10 de Juin, pour le 22h00. Au
aeroport il était un taxi pour m´amener au hotel. Dans ce hotel, de
trés bonnes conditions de alogement et nourriture, resteraient
toutes les equips de diferrents pays bien comme le comité
organizateur de la federation du Chipre.
Au jour suivant, 11 / 6, à 11h00, je suis allé au stade avec Patrick
Robin et Peter Morris, le responsable pour l’organization, pour
verifier les conditions du stade et du terrain de jeux aussi comme
les conditions logistique du Tounoi. C´est vrai que l´organization
et les conditions sportives pour les equips sont trés bonnes.
Au 20h00 on a fait la reunion de managers et le control de
passaports. Tous les pays etaient presentes sauf le Portugal, la
France, la Serbie et Malta. On remarque que l’absence dans la
reunion des pays provoque quelques problémes. Pendant la nuit et
avant de sortir d’hotel au jour du tornoi on a fait le control des
passaports qui manquaient.
Samedi, le 12 de Juin, commence le Tounoi. Toutes les equipes
sortent du hotel à 08h15, chaqunne dans son bus et le premier match
s´initie à 10 h00. Au stade il y avait une tente pour chaque pays et
le repas du midi est au stade.
Au final du premier jour ont peux dire que la qualité des jeux ce
n´étè pas le mieux, peutêtre pour le nervosisme et le different
ambiant, mais surtout il y a quelques pays qui sont trés faibles au
niveau du jeux à 7.
Dimanche, le 21 de Juin, le Tournoi commencé à 10h30 du matin avec
les 4 jeux de la fhase de qualification qui manqueront et aprés tous
les autres jeux pour les differents Cups. Malheureusement il y eut
trois joueurs ( 1 du Chipre, 1 Georgie et 1 de Malta ) qui besoin
d´aller au hospital, plus tard on a prendre conaissance qui la
situation n´etait pas grave .
POINTS FORTES
- L’excellent organization
- Bonne reception et accompagnement à tous les pays
- Trés bon hotel et bonne nourriture
- Facilité en resoudre tous les problémes
- La TV a donné toutes les finals en direct.
- Trés bon Stade et excellent terrain du jeu
- Aucunne carton rouge pendant le Tournoi
POINTS MOINS FORTES
- Peux public, le maximum 250 personnes pour les finals
- La qualité trés faible des arbitres
- La qualité de jeu des pays participants trés different ( Portugal,
France et Georgie), aprés ( Chipre , Germany et Israel) et aprés
dans en niveau trés faible ( Croatie,Serbia, Grecia et Malta)
UNE PARROLE SPECIAL DE REMERCIEMMENT À MRS. PETER MORRIS, RON JAMES
et LOUKIS PATTIHIS POUR LEURS PRESENCE PENDANT TOUT LE TOURNOI ET
EXCELLENT ORGANIZATION.
La Federation du Chipre merite d’organiser à nouveau un tournoi pour
le prochain anné.
Olgário Borges
Le, 20 de Juin 2010
Praise from Malta
Dear Ron
, Peter , volunteers and helpers,
I want to congratulate the Cyprus rugby Federation for organising a
wonderful 7s tournament.
The organization of the event was top notch and our liaison officer
Eric was always there whenever I needed any assistance.
Thank you for the invitation and looking forward for closer rugby
cooperation between the Maltese and Cypriot Rugby Unions.
With many thanks and best regards,
Neil Galea
Malta 7s Team Manager
Peter,
Ron and Loukis,
I just wanted to say thank you and well done.
Thank you for the hospitality and well done on the execution of a
well planned event.
You did it with charm and professionalism. Congratulations!
My wife, Hallit, wishes to add a thank you from her.
She enjoyed her stay (I was slightly worried she wouldn't….)
Cheers,
Adi Raz
Business Development Manager, Europe
Kukri Sports Limited
Praise from Israel
I would
like to thank you for a well organized tournament the
accommodation where out sanding the food was amazing all want well
even my team did well hope to see soon
send my regards to peter
yours
shai dekel
manager
Final European Sevens
Rankings 2010
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Winning Lottery ticket
The big
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Winning raffle number was 1314 name: Annick Mccleneghen & Tom
Chelsea
We thank all those who purchased a ticket as their contribution has
helped the Cyprus Rugby Federation.
Cyprus 7s Press Release
When the Cyprus Rugby
Federation became a full member of the Cyprus Sports Organization in
August 2006, we did not believe that in such a few short years we
would have achieved so much ;
1. To have an international playing record of played 12 and won 11
is remarkable
2. To have gained promotion to Division 3C of the European Nations
Cup, undefeated and with the best defensive record in the whole of
European Rugby
3. To become full members of the Cyprus Olympic Committee
4. To be ranked the 12th best team in European Sevens Rugby
5. And now we host what is probably the the biggest rugby tournament
ever to to be played in the Eastern Mediterranean area.
Our rapid development has caught the attention of FIRA (European
Rugby Union), and we have been granted the great responsibility of
hosting and organizing the 6th and final qualifying round of the
European Sevens Championship 2010., which will be held at the
Paphiako Stadium Paphos between the 12th -13th June.
There is no real difference between normal rugby and rugby sevens.
The rules are exactly the same, and instead of 15 men a side playing
in two halves of 40 minutes, seven men play two halves of seven
minutes, on exactly the same pitch.
At the start of the season, thirty countries started their campaign
to reach the European Sevens Finals to be held in Moscow in July.
Each country has to participate in 2 of the designated 6 qualifying
tournaments, and the higher the placing you receive in a tournament,
the more points they get. The eleven countries with the best
aggregate points will join the hosts Russia in the finals.
All in all 100 players representing France, Georgia, Portugal,
Germany, Cyprus, Croatia, Serbia, Israel, Greece and Malta, will be
competing in Paphos.
With 4 of the top 9 ranked teams on the European circuit
participating, the CRF Paphos Sevens is probably the most difficult
tournament of all. With such high caliber teams we expect some fast
and exciting rugby of the highest order which I am sure will
entertain all our supporters.
The CRF Paphos Sevens is the last opportunity some countries have of
earning enough points to get them to Moscow.
For the first time ever, Cyprus Rugby will shown live on television,
and we are truly grateful to LTV. This will undoubtedly help to
spread the word regarding rugby in Cyprus. With Rugby Sevens now an
Olympic sport as of 2016, The CRF Paphos Sevens is an ideal
opportunity to show the Cypriot public the thrill and excitement of
rugby sevens, and there is no better way to do that than to have a
competition amongst the best teams in Europe, played right here on
our island.
The CRF Paphos Sevens has the support of the Cyprus Sports
Organization, The Cyprus Olympic Committee, The Cyprus Tourist
Office, Paphos Municipality, Cyprus Airways, Leptos Estates, and I
thank them all very sincerely.
The Cyprus Sevens team is sponsored by Oceanbasket, ably assisted by
Shadeports and Meatmasters.
The National Sevens side will consist of
Jonathan Pettemerides
Chris Thoma
George Agathocleous
Dan Thrasivoulou
Andy Binikos
Reno Ioannides
Andreas Zacharia
Marcus Holden
Marco Mladenovic
Dan MacFarlane
Fidias Efthymiou
Burhan Torgut
This squad will train together on Thursday and Friday and barring
injuries will be reduced to 10 for the tournament.
Rugby has long been associated as epitimizing the very best in
sportsmanship, discipline, respect for players and officials, good
behaviour friendly supporters, played in a safe family environment.
With incidents of violence occurring on a weekly basis in our
football stadia, our sports authorities must closely look at rugby
as an exemplar of the sporting spirit we wish to see embraced by our
children and youth We strongly urge all those parents who are
looking to instill such discipline to their children, to bring them
to our tournament, and they can see for them selves the highest
moral and ethical approach to any sport played in Cyprus. The rugby
ethos is being instilled in the schools initiative we are now
undertaking, and in the academies of the local clubs.
Finally, Rugby has been closely associated with Beer and it is part
of the Rugby Culture. In every rugby match around the world, be it
at club or international level, beer is sold. Regretably, here in
Cyprus, due to the irresponsibility of a few, and of the rising
hooliganism in one or two sports, the sale of aclohol has been
banned from national stadia. This in effect, punishes all the law
abiding supporters of all the major sports played in the Olympic
Games. I invite the sporting authorities to re visit this regulation
as it is unfair to the vast majority of sports lovers.
The Cyprus Rugby Federation have as our motto ''Ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς'.
The players are proud to have this on the backs of their playing
jerseys.
We thank you for your time, and we hope to see you all in Paphos on
the 12th June
Yours in Cyprus Rugby
Loukis Pattihis
President
Cyprus Rugby Federation (C.R.F.)
Message from the CRF
President
Dear Friends of Cyprus Rugby
Cyprus v Bosnia is the most important match in our very short
history.
After a 2 year long league season where we have remained unbeaten in
our previous 6 games, that has seen us inflict record defeats on
Azerbaijan, Monaco and Slovakia, and come away from Bosnia with a
victory that was more convincing than the scoreline suggested, we
find ourselves top our league, with our destiny in our own hands.
To put the importance of this match into perspective, quite
literally, the winner of this game will get promotion to Division 3C
of the European Nations Cup, and defeat will condemn the losers to a
further 2 years in the bottom tier of European Rugby.
We welcome the players and officials of the Bosnia Herzegovina Rugby
Union to Cyprus, and the fact that they will come here with such a
large delegation, reflects what this match means to them.
The importance of this match has not gone un-noticed within the
European Rugby fraternity, so much so, that the IRB's Total Rugby TV
has come to Cyprus to do a feature around this match, where it is
winner takes all.
Can I take this opportunity to thank all those many volunteers who
have contributed towards the organization of this match under the
able stewardship of Peter Morrish and Ron James.
To you our true supporters, I thank you yet again for supporting
your team in such big numbers. I sincerely wish that this Saturday
you will again express your vocal support which means a great deal
to the players.
Finally, to the coaches, medical staff, management team and most of
all our players, can I express how proud you have made us with your
high level of play, your convincing results and the professional
approach you take to every game. Your dedication and patriotism has
won us all over. It is you who have put Cyprus Rugby on the European
map.
Loukis Pattihis
President
Cyprus Rugby Federation
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