Name: Linna Rugby Club
Nation: Finland
Founded: 2011
Website: http://www.linnarugbyclub.fi
Dennis Beumer (Linna rugby club)
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Dennis Beumer «the flying dutchman» is the very first participant of «We are rugby» project.
About the player
1. Your name, age and nationality? — Dennis Beumer, 26 years old. Have double nationality. Finnish and Dutch
2. Your profession? — factory worker, textile
3. Your club? — Linna rugby club
4. When did you start to play rugby? — I started playing rugby in 2011
5. What is the highest level you’ve been played? — currently playing the highest level in my country possible. (sm sarjassa) Finnish cup
6. What is your position? — winger
7. How did you get into current club? — I was going to same class with one of the players. He invited me to come try it out. And after that I got hooked.
About the club
8. How many members do you have in your club? -I think we have about 30 a 40 members. Hard to give an accurate estimate.
9. Who is the usual member of your club? — most members are between the age of 20 and 30. Few older blokes
10. How often do you have training sessions in the club? — we train 2 times a week. Winter time we do cardio and ball handling one day and the other day contact.
11. What kind of facilities do you use for training session? — winter time we have to be indoors. So we have for the cardio a inside gym (basketball court) and for the contact we play in horses manage… The soft ground makes it good for tackling ( if you don’t mind the smell of horse shit) summer time we have field outside off course.
12. What tournaments do your club participate in? — we participate in all tournaments in our country. (not much though) also we participate in sevens.
13. How do you promote your club to get new players? — we have beginners courses usually once or twice a year. But most players we recruit are friends we managed to drag to training. Club also sometimes has a stand on a sports fair or something like that.
14. What do you use to keep in touch with other players? — we use Facebook to stay in touch.
15. What are your club’s financial sources? — membership is about 150 euro a year. Players are required to get their own insurance and license for the games. Our club also have several sponsors. How much they bring to the table… Don’t know. Our club also tries to organize some fundraisers were the players try to attend and do some work for the club.
16. What transport do you use to reach the place of the matches? — depending on how far we need to travel. If it’s not too far we usually take several cars. But if we have long trip to make we rent a bus and usually also hotel.
17. What kind of coach do you have (qualification, nationality) — We have the best coach of Finland. Ray is from New Zealand. But also been coaching in Australia. Palymyra rugby, coaching for 10 years.
18. How far is your nearest rival team — And our closest rivals are about 90km away. (tampere). Helsinki is close second with little over 100km
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P.S. I always wonder how rugby world is close, and sometimes you can find people connected with rugby in very unusual places. Few years ago my old brother bought football photos from one Finish photographer. And that photographer appeared to be the president of local rugby club. And it was interesting for me, cause I’m also the chairman of small rugby federation in the place where rugby is not popular. I contacted him and opened Linna Rugby Club for me.