We’re almost there! Our Lebanese Rugby Team beat South Africa 40-12 in Game 1 and now needs to secure a second win against South Africa on Saturday October 31st to qualify to the World Cup! This is amazing news and I’m quite confident we are going to make it this time. Lebanon was expected to play the home game in Dubai due to Lebanon’s security situation but it appears that both games will be played in South Africa instead.
The Lebanese team is mostly made up of Lebanese who play in the Australian league and includes 4 local Lebanese Rugby League Federation players: Robin Hachache, Ray Finnan (Immortals RLFC), Wael Harb and Toufic El Hajj (Wolves RLFC). Toufic also plays for AUB.
The first game was live-streamed on this [link] for those who want to rewatch it. I will provide you with the link for the second game as soon as it’s available.
Thank You Jeffrey!
Hey awesome post! However, Lebanon has been in the World Cup once before in the year 2000! And if it can be edited to say: Lebanese who play in the Australia League instead of Lebanese-Australians. And add also local Lebanese Rugby League Federation players. That would be awesome! Also the AUB RL page has shared your post, thank you!
Fixed thanks 🙂
Thanks Najib!