The IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy kicks off this week in Chile. Eight nations will take part in this inaugural competition with each nation having a 26 man squad.
Many of the players named in the squads have played for their countries at U19 level over the last two years. The restructuring of age grade rugby to combine both the Under 19 and Under 21 levels into two new tournaments – IRB Junior World Championship and IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy – at Under 20 level has given these players another chance to taste success.
Chile who host the competition are very versatile and will no doubt have home crowd support. Romania and Nambia are both physical and strong. Korea have confirmed they will be looking at their defence to aid them. The Cook Islands are still searching for their first victory in an International Rugby Board age grade tournament. Jamaica have already created history simply by qualifying for the inaugural IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy, and emerging nation for rugby they have been taught the entire laws of the game going through not just physical fitness and endurance but the whole works.
As for Georgia the number of people wanting to play the sport has increased greatly on the back of the World Cup and Georgia’s climb to the top of the European Nations Cup standings with three wins in 2008.
Romania and Georgia scrum down against each in their Division B match at the IRB Under 19 World Championship 2007.
Date | Team A | score | Team B | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
15 Apr1400 | Romania | Namibia | Stade Français, Santiago | |
15 Apr1600 | Chile | Cook Islands | Stade Français, Santiago | |
19 Apr1400 | Romania | Cook Islands | Estadio San Carlos,Santiago | |
19 Apr1600 | Chile | Namibia | Estadio San Carlos,Santiago | |
23 Apr1400 | Namibia | Cook Islands | Estadio San Carlos,Santiago | |
23 Apr1400 | Chile | Romania | Stade Français, Santiago |
Date | Team A | score | Team B | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Apr1400 | Georgia | 90-3 | Jamaica | Estadio San Carlos,Santiago |
| 15 Apr1600 | Uruguay | 67-8 | Korea | Estadio San Carlos,Santiago |
| 19 Apr1400 | Georgia | 50-31 | Korea | Stade Français, Santiago |
| 19 Apr1600 | Uruguay | 82-0 | Jamaica | Stade Français, Santiago |
| 23 Apr1400 | Korea | 55-17 | Jamaica | Estadio San Carlos,Santiago |
| 23 Apr1400 | Uruguay | 20-16 | Georgia | Stade Français, Santiago |
| Date | Team A | score | Team B | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Apr 1000 | Cook Islands | 54-15 | Jamaica | Stade Français, Santiago |
| Date | Team A | score | Team B | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Apr 1200 | Namibia | 36-29 | Korea | Stade Français, Santiago |
| Date | Team A | score | Team B | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Apr 1430 | Romania | 10-34 | Georgia | Stade Français, Santiago |
| Date | Team A | score | Team B | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Apr 1600 | Chile | 8-20 | Uruguay | Stade Français, Santiago |
IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy Match Official Panel:
Referee Panel
Salvador Encinas (Chile)
Heykel Bahroun (Tunisia)
Ucha Narmianidze (Georgia)
Gustavo Gerbasi (Uruguay)
Horatiu Bargaunas (Romania)
Javier Mancuso (Argentina)
Marcin Zeszutek (Poland)
Specialist touch judge: Jaime Vial (Chile)
Tournament Referee Manager: Bernd Gabbei (Germany)
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