Philippine national team to attend Elite Training Camp in Sydney

The Philippine Rugby Football Union has managed to secure the Sydney Football Stadiums (SFS) to take a squad of thirty players to participate in a one week Elite Training Camp in Sydney, Australia this coming April 1 - 8. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for the Philippine Rugby Football Union and the national athletes  will train, live and compete in world class facilities that include the University Of New South Wales and the Northern Suburbs Rugby Club. The SFS is the second largest stadium in Sydney, with the Olympic stadium claiming the largest stadium title. The SFS, professional testing facilities and specialist coaches were generously sponsored by the Australasian Rugby Association, the NSW Waratahs Rugby Associations and the local Filipino community based in Sydney.

National team 2009 (before Iran game)

 

Thirty national team players will travel to Sydney to undertake a week long intensive Training Camp that will include, fitness testing, professional coaching, rugby games and the squad will receive professional coaching from world class Australian rugby union coaches. The Australian team is currently ranked third in the world and it is extremely exciting for the Filipino players to know that they will be training and playing at the same stadium facilities that are used by the Australian rugby union team.

 

The week long Elite Training Camp is the first of several training camps and tournaments that the Philippine national rugby union team will participate in during 2010, with the ultimate goal of winning a medal at the Asian Games to be held in Guangzhou China in November 2010.

 

This camp will provide many of the best national athletes with world class training and testing facilities and the camp is being run by the current Philippines national coaching staff Expo Mejia and Matt Cullen. The coaches have guaranteed that the weeklong camp will provide the Philippine national rugby union team with the best possible training conditions to begin 2010 in a winning way. Athletes will partake in a range of rugby specific fitness tests, train in the Sydney Olympic and Football Stadiums and attend lectures at the University of NSW Campus. 

 

Matt Cullen explains “there is no doubt that the national athletes will learn and improve by attending the Elite Training Camp and by taking the national squad to Sydney to train and play in the world class facilities that include the Sydney Football Stadium and the University of New South Wales, the players will appreciate the high standards that they must achieve in 2010.  We aim to win the Asian Five Nations Division 2 Championships in India in June and then finish the year with a medal at the 2010 Asian Games.”

 

Text and images courtesy: PRFU