The Cambodia 10’s adults rugby tournament was held on the 26th and 27th of October at Northbridge International School and had 20 teams from 8 countries participating. It was a successful weekend of great rugby with the Bangkok Southerners taking out the Men’s Cup, the local Sparkly Rahus taking the Women’s Cup, and Zarlequeen from Reunion Island taking the Old Boy’s Cup. We were also very pleased to showcase the children under our grassroots rugby program on Sunday morning in some exhibition games. Thank you to Action Cambodge Handicap, Sok Sabay, and Taramana for participating. We got many good comments about the high level of skill the children displayed, and their energy and enthusiasm was contagious! Thank you also to the team from Friends International who supported our event, and we fully support their Child Safe Movement.
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The Cambodia 10’s is back in this World Cup Rugby year and is being held on the 26th and 27th of October. This social rugby tournament has been going for many years and welcomes teams from around the world, to highlight the work that is being done in Cambodia with youth development through sport. Visiting teams come from Australia, France, South Africa, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore, and normally around 350 people participate over the two days. There are three components to the tournament – Men’s, Women’s and Old Boy’s.
For more information, please email: cambodiatens@kampuchearugby.com
To download the 2019 registration form, please click here.
The first Cambodian club team to participate in the prestigious Bangkok International Rugby Tens Tournament, returned back to Phnom Penh this Monday with a lot of wonderful images in their heads and the knowledge that they had exceeded everyone’s expectations. The 16 women rugby players, trained weekly by Kampuchea Balopp, did a remarkable job in the tournament last weekend, and finished in 3rd place out of five teams. 4 games played – 2 defeats and 2 victories. Cambodian womens rugby is slowly but surely making itself known within the Asian rugby community.
After 16 hours of bus travel on the Friday the Cambodian team played their first game at 6pm on the Saturday against the Chula University of Bangkok. Much more experienced and organised, the local team did not give any opportunities to the Kampuchea Balopp team to control the ball, and as such, won the game 15-0. On the Sunday morning after a good night’s sleep and with bodies full of energy, the story was much different! In fact, their first game of the day against the Kuala Lumpur Tigers was an amazing battle. After a first try scored by SOTH Chanthou, the Cambodian team defended really hard during the whole second half. Fortunately, the try scored by the KL team at the end of the game was not converted, and that made the first victory of the day for the Khmer players!
Against the Royal Air Force, a team that trains almost every day and have in their squad around 6 players from the national team who won the last SEA Game, the gap was too big. But it gave the opportunity for those young Cambodian players to see what high level rugby looks like, and at the end, even if the defeat was harsh, it helped the team to grow and to prepare for their last game of the day against the Bangkok Banger Belles.
This game was really important for the coaches who, since the beginning of the tournament, had told the players that it was possible to come back to Cambodia with two victories in their luggage. The first half was extremely balanced, no team scored and the defence of both teams was well organised. In the 2nd half, there was again a try scored by the winger SOTH Chantou after an amazing play by Chun SokPhallin, who managed to set up her team mate. But the Belles did not want to loose again to the KB team (after their defeat in the last Bangkok 7’s), and they controlled the ball until the end, pushing hard against the Cambodian defence who valiantly resisted unti the end. The Cambodian will to win was too strong to let the Belles come back, and when the referee ended the game, the happiness of the Cambodian girls was just magic!
We would like to thank our sponsors Phoenix ASEAN Law Firm, IRCO Design & Consulting and Rugby Club Biel Bienne, who helped Kampuchea Balopp participate in this 11th edition of the Bangkok International Rugby Tens Tournament.
On the 14th of February 2016, Kampuchea Balopp was excited to invite 8 teams (6 women + 2 boys) for a nice and fun rugby tournament.
For this special occasion, we had the great pleasure to welcome 5 British Referees who came with a luggage full of new rugby balls !
Those referees, who come every year to help during the Cambodia Tens, were very surprised with the good level of rugby, shown by all the players, who were all aged between 14 and 17 years old.
Thanks Again to all the volunteers, NGOs/School, referees, doctors, partners who made this morning of rugby possible.
En ce jour de Saint-Valentin, l’équipe de Kampuchea Balopp a décidé d’organiser un petit tournoi tout en mettant en valeur le rugby féminin ! Ainsi, 6 équipes féminines, issues de nos ONG et ecoles partenaires PSE, Soksabay, Toutes a l’Ecole et Le Lycée francais René Descartes, se sont rencontrées dans un superbe état d’esprit de convivialité, de combat et de partage. A noter que les équipes masculines de PSE et de l’ecole francaise se sont egalement confrontées a deux reprises.
Pour cette occasion, nous avions la chance de bénéficier de la présence de nos amis arbitres présent lors du dernier Cambodia Tens. Ces arbitres, en provenance d’Angleterre, ont permis aux éducateurs de Kampuchea Balopp de progresser dans le domaine de l’arbitrage, et ont remis une donation de Ballons neufs aux capitaines des équipes presentes.
Merci encore a tou(te)s les volontaires présents, les enfants, les medecins et toutes les personnes qui ont permis de fetér la Saint Valentin, a notre maniere.. !
On the 13th of December was organized our last Kampuchea Balopp Day of 2015, on the beautiful field of the ISPP – International School of Phnom Penh new campus. 12 NGOs, 2 International School, 25 volunteers, more than 400 children who share during 6 hours their passion for rugby despite their differences: This morning of rugby was a huge success !!
A big Thanks to our key partners, The Cambodia Airports who support the event and who give a cap to all the children !
We wish to all our partners the best for 2016, and we are all looking forward to see you again during our next Kampuchea Balopp Day !
On the 7th and 8th of November, Kampuchea Balopp gave the opportunity to 12 girls from our NGO partner Pour un Sourire d’Enfant (PSE) to participate in the 2015 edition of The Bangkok International Rugby Sevens. It was the first time that a women’s Cambodian rugby team has ever participated in such a big tournament outside of Cambodia, and those two days of intensive rugby are something that the girls will remember for the rest of their lives.
Day 1:
On the first day, after 1 hour of travelling on the BTS (Bangkok Transit System), we arrived at the Pattana School Fields, where three rugby fields were set up to organise this huge tournament of rugby. We did not have that much time to look around because we had only 30 minutes to warm up before our first game against Singapore, and we could see a mix of excitement and fear on the faces of our 12 players.
The objectives that our coaches, Ra and Khemara, gave to the players were simple:
Objective Number 1: Represent Cambodia Rugby well by giving everything on the field, and by being thankful and happy all the time out the field
Objective Number 2: Try to score at least 1 try
And if the two first objective were done: Try to win a game!
This first game against Singapore was a very good test to evaluate our level in this pool, and it started pretty well because after only one minute, Hong Sara, scored the first try of the game, which was a very big surprise for everybody!! Even if the Singaporean players were much more organised and played with a better technique than our Khmer players, our aggressiveness in defense and our determination managed to compensate for our physical deficit. At the end of the first half, the score was 7-7 and the players were really tired. In the second half, this tiredness made our players make too many hand mistakes which gave a lot of opportunities to our opponent to score tries, and the final score was 24-7.
This first opposition gave us a lot of hope for the rest of the tournament because we knew that with better organisation, we would be able to win a game.
We knew the second game against the Australian Navy was the most difficult one of the pool, most of the Australian players were over 25 years old (the age average of our team was 19 years old) and the difference of size and power was so big that we already knew before the beginning of the game that it would be a very tough game.
The final score was 39-5, and a positive was that we scored the last try of the game, and all the public gave us a big standing ovation because we were the first team of the tournament managing to score a try against the Australian Navy. The braveness and the determination that our players showed during the game really impressed the spectators, and from this game, we were maybe the most popular team of the tournament, everybody wanted to see a victory from the Cambodian team!
Unfortunately, we also lost our third and last game of the day against Bangkok University 17-0, but with two tries scored and all the support we received during the day, our girls were confident enough and as determined as ever to win the first game of the second day against The Banger Belles!
Day 2:
On Sunday morning, even if the players’ bodies were very sore, we could feel that the girls were really focused on their principal objective of the day: to win a game.
We had an advantage as the Bangers belles had played one game before us, so it was a good opportunity for everybody, the coaches and player, to observe and analyse the way the Belles were playing. The analysis of this game was quite simple: they were very strong physically but not that fast, so if we wanted to win the game, we had to make them run and avoid contact.
Just before the kick-off, the motivation of the girls was incredible, and our first half was just amazing: two tries scored, 1 conversion, very good defense, and the Bangers Belles never had any good opportunity to score. The second half was more difficult, and after 5 minutes of controlling the ball, the team from Bangkok managed to score a try. It was 12-5 with 2 minutes to go for the girls to try to hold on. Better than any defensive play, Sreyline and Soknov, our captain, did a fantastic action to score a third and last try below the post to assure our victory! When the referee ended the game, our happiness was so big that spectators could believe that we won the tournament! The players received a lot of congratulations from everybody, referees, organizers, and the other teams, everybody was fantastically happy for us!
Now that our three objectives were complete, the rest of the tournament was just a bonus; and the loss of our last game against another university of Bangkok did not affect our happiness and enthusiasm.
Kampuchea Balopp would like to thank:
– Dave Adamson, the tournament Director who manage to find a sponsor to support the cost of the bus ticket, accommodation and food for our team
– Pour un Sourire d’Enfant for working together with Kampuchea Balopp on this project. Special mention to Sun Malen and Pablo Zarauza for having helped and supported the team during the entire week-end
– WIG, for having sponsored Kampuchea Balopp to help us to buy rugby shoes and mouthguards for our players
– All the team and spectators who were present at the Bangkok 7s and supported the Cambodian team during each of their games.
This two day rugby tournament will stay for a very long time in our players’ minds, and we hope that it will mark the first step in a long history of Cambodian Womens rugby.
Le 7 et 8 Novembre dernier, Kampuchea Balopp a donné l’opportunité a 12 joueuses de notre association partenaire Pour un Sourire d’Enfant (PSE) de participer à la 21eme édition du Bangkok International Rugby Sevens. Première fois de l’histoire qu’une équipe cambodgienne participait à un tournoi de cette envergure, le défi était de taille pour ces khmères qui n’avait jamais joué de tournoi international. Malgré la difficulté, nous savions avant même de partir que ces deux jours de rugby resteraient longtemps dans les mémoires des joueuses de PSE.
Lors de la première journée, après que notre équipe ait découvert les joies de métro thaïlandais, nous sommes arrivés à l’Ecole de Pattana, et ses trois terrains de rugby. Malgré le fait que nous n’ayons pas pu avoir le temps de visiter les lieux – notre premier match commençant seulement trente minutes après notre arrivée – les filles étaient hyper concentrées, et nous pouvions ressentir rien qu’en observant leur visage un joli mélange d’excitation et d’appréhension.
Les objectifs énoncés par nos deux éducateurs Ra et Khemara, étaient clairs:
Dans un premier temps, bien représenter le rugby cambodgien, en donnant le maximum sur le terrain de la 1ere à la dernière minute de chaque rencontre, qu’importe le score, et, en étant l’équipe la plus souriante et heureuse du tournoi. Puis, dans un deuxième temps: essayer de marquer au moins un essai;
Enfin, si les deux premiers objectifs étaient atteints: Tenter de remporter un match !
Ce premier match face a Singapour était un très bon test pour évaluer notre niveau dans cette poule, et le moins que l’on puisse dire, c’est que ca a plutôt bien débuté, car après seulement 30 secondes de jeu, Hong Sara a inscrit le premier essai du match ! Enorme surprise ! 2eme objectif: ATTEINT !
Même si les Singapouriennes étaient bien mieux organisées et affichaient clairement une technique supérieure à la notre, l’agressivité défensive, le courage et la détermination de nos joueuses leurs ont permis de terminer la première mi-temps par un très honorable score de parité 7-7. La deuxième mi-temps a été beaucoup plus délicate a gérer, et la différence de condition physique s’est énormément fait ressentir. En manque d’oxygène et donc bien moins lucides, nos joueuses ont fait tomber beaucoup de ballons et donner trop de munitions a l’équipe adverse qui a réussi à planter trois essais en contre en seconde mi-temps. Score final: 7-24.
Malgré l’énorme déception, ce premier match a permis a notre équipe de se rassurer et leur a donné beaucoup d’espoir quant a l’accomplissement de notre troisième objectif, à savoir, tenter de gagner un match sur le week-end.
Avant d’entamer notre deuxième match, nous savions qu’ils seraient quasi-impossible d’en ressortir vainqueur, l’équipe de la Marine Australienne évoluant dans une autre dimension: 25 ans de moyenne d’âge (contre 19 pour nous), 1metre 80 de moyenne, et une équipe n’ayant encaissé aucun essai jusqu’alors: Gros, très Gros défi !
Et pourtant, malgré les 39 points encaissés, notre équipe a été la seule de la journée a avoir inscrit un essai, par le biais de Srey Line, a cette formidable équipe australienne. Et, le public, ayant bien compris la portée de ce mini exploit, nous l’a bien fait comprendre en réservant une énorme ovation aux joueuses au coup de sifflet final. Ca y est, l’équipe cambodgienne était l’équipe chouchou du public !
Le troisieme match, face a une équipe universitaire de Bangkok, a été très dure a gérer, beaucoup de fatigue, une grosse opposition, et un score final de 17 a 0, sans avoir vraiment eu d’opportunité de jouer dans le camp de notre adversaire.
Malgré ces trois défaites, l’énorme soutien reçu par le public tout au long de cette première journée a fait en sorte que notre équipe étaient plus que déterminée pour se tourner vers leur plus gros objectif: Affronter et vaincre les Bangkok Bangers Belles, le lendemain matin !
Deuxième journée:
En ce dimanche matin, même si les courbatures et les muscles engourdis se faisaient ressentir, nous pouvions sentir, et ce, des le trajet dans le métro, que les 12 joueuses étaient toutes concentrées sur leur principal objectif du week-end: Gagner un match.
Pour nous aider dans notre tache, nous avons pu bénéficier de la clémence du calendrier qui nous a permis d’observer les Bangers Belles jouer leur premier match de la journée avant de nous affronter. Une opportunité a ne pas louper pour analyser le jeu de notre adversaire et essayer d’y détecter les points forts et les points faibles. L’analyse, partagée par toutes les joueuses, étaient simple, tres physiques mais peu rapides, si nous parvenions a éviter un maximum l’affrontement tout en les faisant courir, nous pourrions avoir nos chances.
Juste avant le coup d’envoi, la motivation de nos joueuses étaient indescriptible, soudées comme jamais et concentrées comme avant une finale, un parfum d’exploit pouvait alors se faire ressentir.
La première mi-temps fut juste incroyable. Privées de ballons, les Bangers Belles courraient après nos joueuses comme un adulte tentant de rattraper en vain son enfant au milieu d’une fête foraine. Et avec 2 essais marqués et une transformation réussie, notre équipe cambodgienne a réalisé une première mi-temps de rêve, en empêchant les Bangers d’avoir joué dans notre camps.
Malgré tout, l’inquiétude a la pause était bien présente, deux joueuses sur le carreau dont Chhorvy, l’une des joueuses les plus expérimentées de l’équipe, et un stress nouveau a gérer: celui de la peur de gagner !
La deuxième mi-temps a été très dure a gérer. Les Bangers, bien décidées a revenir au score, reprenaient possession du ballon et nous faisaient très mal au près. Et ainsi, après 5 minutes de résistance héroïque, nos joueuses ont fini par lâcher et a encaisser un essai; 12-5, et encore deux minutes a tenir…
Mieux que tenir, les cambodgiennes ont réussi a trouver l’énergie nécessaire pour récupérer la balle tout de suite et inscrire un troisième et dernier essai, par le biais de notre capitaine Soknov après un fantastique travail de Srey Line. Score finale 19-5, et une première victoire HI-STO-RIQUE !
Au moment ou l’arbitre a donné le coup de sifflet final, notre réaction était telle que les spectateurs auraient pu croire que nous avions gagné le tournoi ! Toutes les joueuses reçurent un grand nombre de félicitations des adversaires, arbitres et organisateurs, tout le monde était ravis pour notre équipe !
Maintenant que nos trois objectifs étaient atteints, le reste du tournoi n’était que du bonus, et la défaite contre une autre équipe universitaire de Bangkok n’a en rien affecté la joie et l’enthousiasme de l’équipe.
Kampuchea Balopp tient a remercier:
– Dave Adamson, le Directeur du tournoi, qui a réussi a trouver les sponsors pour permettre de financer les tickets de bus, nuits d’hôtel et nourriture pour notre équipe;
– L’ONG Pour un Sourire d’Enfant pour avoir si bien collaboré avec Kampuchea Balopp sur ce beau projet; avec une mention spéciale pour Sun Malen et Pablo Zarauza qui ont aidé et soutenu l’équipe tout au long du week end.
– WIG, pour avoir sponsorisé Kampuchea Balopp en permettant a toutes nos joueuses de porter des crampons de rugby et des protège dents.
– et bien sur, toutes les équipes et spectateurs présents lors de cet inoubliable Bangkok 7s, qui nous ont encouragé et montré ces superbes marques de soutien tout au long du tournoi.
Ces deux journées de rugby resteront pour très longtemps dans l’esprit de nos joueuses, et nous espérons qu’elles marqueront la première étape de la longue et belle aventure du rugby féminin cambodgien au sein du circuit international.
Kampuchea Balopp (KB) and Pour un Sourire d’Enfant (PSE) are proud to announce that for the first time ever, a women’s club team from Cambodia will participate in the upcoming Bangkok International Rugby Sevens tournament on Saturday the 7th and Sunday the 8th of November in Bangkok, Thailand.
The tournament has been held annually since 1995 and is a major Sevens tournament in the region. This year 12 womens teams and 28 mens teams will participate and the event will be held at the beautiful Bangkok Patana School. The Kampuchea Balopp Garudas are in Pool C with Australia Navy, Singapore HPD and Bangkok Uni. The opening game for the Cambodian girls is at 12.10pm against Singapore HPD.
The Cambodian team is comprised of twelve girls. Two girls are between sixteen and eighteen, and the rest are between eighteen and twenty. Most of the girls started playing rugby over 5 years ago through the PSE program, but there are a few who only began playing less than one year ago. For the girls, it is the first time to travel overseas, and also obviously their first tournament overseas.
Rugby Sevens is particularly suited to the Cambodian style of rugby as it emphasises speed and agility. The Cambodian girls have embraced this version of rugby and it has quickly grown in popularity. Up until one year ago the girls only got to play games again the Lycée René-Descartes’s girls team, but recently ISPP created a girls Sevens team and therefore the local Kampuchea Balopp-PSE team got to practice against the two other teams. Obviously this international tournament with teams from around the world will be a major step for the girls.
RETH Ra, the Senior Educator at Kampuchea Balopp and Head Coach of the women’s team says that he is very proud to give this opportunity to the girls as it is a fantastic experience to participate in a such a quality tournament. He knows that even if the games are tough, the team has worked and trained very hard for one year to prepare for this, and so the most important thing is not the result but the experience that the girls will gain from their participation. The women’s captain, KEO Soknov, has been playing for ten years and this is the first time that she is able to travel overseas for an important tournament.
Kampuchea Balopp and PSE would like to thank Tournament Director David Adamson for supporting the Cambodian team, covering some of their costs, and being a proud supporter of rugby in Cambodia. Also, other supporters have been the students from ISPP who have donated items such as boots to assist the girls in making this trip possible.
We hope that this tournament will be an important step in contributing to the foundation of a strong Cambodian women’s rugby team. With the four hundred girls that currently participate in the Kampuchea Balopp sports program, there are certainly the numbers to build women’s 7’s rugby in Cambodia, plus a lot of enthusiasm.
For more informations please visit www.bangkoksevens.com for more details.
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