Lebanon Rugby League. Al Jazeera feature

[SoundBoy808]

well the world cup qualifiers are coming up. Lebanon vs Italy, and Lebanon vs Serbia I think?

Lebanon just played a Morocco XIII as a warm up and comprehensively crushed them. See lebrl.com for more info

[teethsten]

we need another promo game of lebanon verse say a png or france the support would be awesome.

[h7p10]

He is indeed my favorite player of all time, If yah have anymore like him in Lebanon ??? send him down to NRL, to play for the Nzl Warriors, lol

[h7p10]

Im shur the greatest rugby league player Hazeem el Mazeri is from Lebanon ?

[SoundBoy808]

@h7p10 Hazem is indeed from Lebanon and played as Lebanon Captain in the first Lebanon v France Med Cup match....

[MrRichard911]

lebanese language ain't arabic, it's way simpler.

[draconianrush]

Sure 08 is gone, but there's still the 2013 cup to work for. Good luck to Lebanon. I hope they go well!

[raymolly1980]

I totally agree with zazoopally how often people mixed up and think that Lebanese are arabs

its the arabic media that always give the impression that lebanon is arabic ....shame

[AZachariou]

Hey everyone, I'm honored to say that i am on the National under 16 Lebanese RL Team!

We have a game against KSA on October 24th at 6 PM (@ Tripoly olympic stadium).

And in december, we have a trip to Qatar where we will have a tri-Series with Qatar and KSA :)

GO LEBANON!!!!!!

m the fullback btw

[zazoopalIy]

Yeah its not often you hear Arabic spoken in a rugby changing room because theyre speaking Lebanese u fucking retard. Lebanese are nto Arabs so why dont you start giving some real information.

[macphersonleedsunite]

How many clubs, school, collages and universities and how many people are there playing the sport?.

[molayknight]

I am a Samoan good to see more competition

[smithbobutd]

Well done lads. I hope you do well, but not too well we don't want ANOTHER team beating England on regular basis ;)

[macphersonleedsunite]

Come on Lebanon make it to at least 50-70 in the next few yaers or get your numbers of players up to3,000 or so and attracted more people to play it and/or watch it and bring it in to school (Primary/Secondary) Colleges and univercities.

[SoundBoy808]

well apparently there are schools playing it now, and they are trying to get some national under 16s side going as well.....

[lebanese1eddy]

mannnn i was supposed to play rugby during Uni. but i fucken deslocated my shoulder while putting 80 kgs dumbles!!! just 1 week before i start rugby !! i was a muscular 260 Lbs 6Ft2 guy !!! i totally recovered from my injury 1 and half year later but couldnt play anymore shittt everybody said i had a future in this sport!!

[Rafdaganga]

let me guess.....your a PDHPE teacher now?...

[lebanese1eddy]

no just a stonner

[AnthonyQuinn1]

Legends, keep it up!

[thekev506]

the more countries playing rugby league, the better :D

[GanEdenAustralia]

@thekev506 PITY THEY DONT INCLUDE ISRAEL THOUGH!!!

[Ozpride]

That was awesome good luck to them, if they pick up the game over there like my Leb Aussie bro's over here, they would make a sick passionate team in the future. 3 weeks to NRL starts boys UP THE RAIDERS

[Kingsland7]

2013 World Cup! I really want to see Lebanon qualify! come on you Cedars!!!!

[Shamoosa1989]

Go Lebanon!

[KnightSoldierr]

It's ashame that we couldn't make it in the 2008 Rugby League World Cup. I think if star players such as Robbie Farah, Hazem El Masri, and Hassan Saleh were in the team during the qualifiers, we would have made it.

[Sou1e]

I would love to see Lebanon get a chance in the future. Wish them all the best, I think they have a bright future :)

[leboromeo]

proud to see even non-lebanese supporters :) go lebanon nd wish every other team luk too! :D peace!

[allikohcysp]

Go Lebanon!!! I'm Samoan but would love to see a country like Lebanon dominate in rugby league. Any country from Europe so the game can grow. Give me Serbia, Germany, Russia, Lebanon andything!!! I wish you guys(lebanon) luck and look forward to watching your matches in the future

[jelsibai]

YESS Go Leabnon .. my brother plays with the lebeses team he is on 0:16 mazen and i play rugby in the USA .. best game ever made ..proud that lebnon is representing

[Grogan1988]

they've got the NSW RL logo on the jumpers LOL good onya boys, wrong posts but its a start

[Ramox3]

"they thought we lived in tents " lol

[oujdarugby]

vive rugby xv

[Rug13y]

Get the game spread into Israel and make peace!

[z0mgRugby]

Not much chance of that happening with the terrorist ran Israeli government.

[TeamKitoStaff]

Israel is like the only country in the middle east not run by terrorists or tyrants.

[ron84usa]

OHHHH I MISS THE GAMES...I knew Danny was going to make it bigger and better...I was with NDU team...

[LEBOinAUSTRALIA]

Go hard boys

[wondeboy12]

Good on them! its good to see people taking an intrest in a great sport.

Id love to see the day my home country (austria) took an intrest in rugby leauge like that :) Its a great sport fun to play and easy to learn much love people :D

[Kingsland7]

On the inside of my cubourd I have a poster dating back to 11th of July 1998 for the first ever appearance of a Lebanese team to play Italy at Leichthart Oval (Sydney Australia). The Game was intended to be a curtain raiser for an ARL game between Balmain and North Queensland Cowboys, (which at the time would of got 4,000 people turn up). The attandence for the 'curtain raiser' game alone was 15,000 people, and Lebenon won!

[cx6av]

Hello Lebanon !!my grandfather was from your country , im a Rugby player and coach in Uruguay.I´m very happy to see this video where the best sport of the world reach your beautiful country..regards, Victor

[ironcrossdx]

i'm franco-lebaneeze.....i play rugby in biarritz....n i'm so happy to hear that there is a rugby club in lebanon!!!!go ceders!

[HUCeRAMMAL]

But not the same rugby

[lolol8922]

I live in New Zealand, and I'm proud to be Lebanese!

[moanaashleigh]

The first lebanese i've heared livin in N.Z

Probably because you don't live in Auckland........(South)hahahah­aha

Mangere mah hometown dawg

[lolol656]

I live in Auckland city.

[moanaashleigh]

Chru....Are there many Lebanese in Auckland?

MANGERE WHAAAT?

[dikchez]

did we beat samoa

[tourzaman]

no we lost but theres always next time and the lebanon rugby championship go LAU!

[dikchez]

were is lebanon vs samoa going to be played at and is it on tv

[SoundBoy808]

its being played on wednesday night at 7.30 pm GMT, at Featherstone Rovers ground, (near Leeds).

Game is televised in UK on sky sports, and in Middles East on Showtime Sports. Also in Autralia I think.

Go Lebanon Rugby League!

[tourzaman]

cedars!!!!! lebanon vs samoa nov. 14 winner goes to the world cup!!! go lebanon!!!!!

[Rug13y]

Get the game into Israel!

[no1wiganrlfan]

Rugby league is the biggest up coming sport in the world

[AntiFeminaziAus]

Great to see the game played in Lebanon!

[Bulldog4lyf]

will el masri play for lebanon since he didn't get picked for australia

[t3hik]

he's the captain for their team.

[nukzuloo]

australia best league team in the world no one will come close

[spaz888]

I dont know much about rugby, but i know that the lebanese rugby players are all from australia.

[fourp1ay]

obviously not if u watched this video.. that was the local league in Lebanon.

great to see anyway.

[bobthemonkey90]

I'm an Aussie and damn proud of it.

I know we're the best in the world at league..but what reason do you have to try to knock down a nation that's been playing the game for 5 years (iirc.)

this video has nothing to do with Australia, its about promoting the game in other parts of the world

Grow up.

[dfkhgdhg]

i should throught out my lebanon soccer jersy and get a lebanon rugby jersy!! go ceaders!!! ranked 8th in the world!!!!

[Levant567]

Thanks for posting this up. Go the Cedars! The 2008 world cup is coming up

[zako9uk]

brilliant great to see this game in the mideast hopfully it will spread.

[SLC20052006]

How funny is that goofy runner at 3:45?

[littlechicken22]

loooool

[bigbangerbison]

newzeland is the otughest rugby leage team but we need beter backs these if we want to winn the cup

[SoundBoy808]

yes, he is his cousin.

[someotherguyyouknow]

Is Samer El Masri related to Hasim?

[zarathustrad]

That as pretty interesting to see. They are right about the Lebanese needing a gras roots movement, because at the last world cup the entire lebanese team was from Sydney, and spoke with aussie accents.

[kingdarwich77]

go lebanon soon 2 be world cup champs

[moanaashleigh]

They aern't in the world cup this year

[ali13ali13]

Awesome.

[Paley]

Lovely to see Lebanese RL getting some coverage. As Copa said, Go the Cedars.

[coparugby]

Go the Cedars!