RC Huerth
| RC Huerth | |||
| Basic data | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Rugby Club 1960 Hürth e. V. | ||
| Seat | Huerth , Germany | ||
| founding | 1960 | ||
| Colours | black-and-white | ||
| president | Paul Muller | ||
| Website | www.huerth-rugby.de | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Marcus Mangrich and Christian Kübbeler | ||
| Venue | Rugby Center Huerth | ||
| Places | about 1500 | ||
| league | Regionalliga NRW | ||
| 2012/13 | 3rd place | ||
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The RC Hürth (completely Rugby Club 1960 Hürth eV ) is a German rugby club from Hürth near Cologne .
History and structure
The RC Hürth was founded in 1960 by former members of the then rugby department of ASV Köln . The number of members of the "Panther" grew quickly to around 150 people and as early as 1971 the first team of the club started in the 1st rugby league . Until the late 1990s, the club also provided numerous players for the German national rugby team .
Today the first team of RC Hürth plays in the North Rhine-Westphalian regional rugby league . In addition, there is an old-man team as well as several school and youth teams that regularly take part in leisure tournaments and the games of the North Rhine-Westphalian rugby association . In addition, the association has been organizing rugby groups at four secondary schools in Hürth since 1994, to which other schools from neighboring communities in the Rhein-Erft district have joined over the years. The RC Hürth has been supported financially since 1996 by the “Förderkreis Rugby in Hürth”. In the 2000s there was also a syndicate with the rugby department of Brühler TV 1879 .
The clubhouse of RC Hürth, which was expanded in 2005, has served as the state performance base of the North Rhine-Westphalian rugby association since 1993. It is also the venue for the international rugby tournament "Hürth Sevens", where teams from Great Britain , France , the Netherlands and all of Germany compete against each other in Olympic rugby seven . The event has been held since 1962 and is Germany's oldest and most renowned rugby tournament of its kind.
In 2002 and 2003, the RC Hürth was trained by the French Olivier Voisin . He was a full-time photographer and worked for international media as a photo journalist during the civil war in Syria . After suffering serious injuries in an assassination attempt in Idlib, Syria , he died on February 24, 2013 at the age of 38 as a result of the consequences in a hospital in Antakya, Turkey .