Green Rockets Tokatsu
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NEC Green Rockets Tokatsu (formerly NEC Green Rockets) is a Japanese
Top League was created, the team was just known as "NEC". The amateur club was founded in 1985 in the Kantō region
.
NEC Green Rockets won the
sin-binning of Glen Marsh
in the last ten minutes of the game.
The team rebranded as Green Rockets Tokatsu ahead of the rebranding of the Top League to the Japan Rugby League One in 2022.[1]
Honours
- All-Japan Championship
- Champions: 2005, 2006 (with Toshiba Brave Lupus)
- Champions: 2005, 2006 (with
Current squad
The Green Rockets Tokatsu for the 2023-2024 season is:[2]
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Flankers
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| (c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes player is internationally capped |
Former players
- Top League started), and later head coach of Japan national rugby union team
- Kiyonori Okano
- Takayuki Higo - coach
- George Konia
- Glen Marsh
- Joe Stanley
- Jeremy Stanley
- Alex Goode
- Takuro Miuchi
- Yuta Inose (2004-18, 161 games) Prop, Japanese International (2008, 6 caps)
- Nili Latu (2007-15, 110 games) Loose forward, Tongan International (2006-, 54 caps)
References
- ^ "La nouvelle ligue japonaise s'appelle la Japan Rugby League One". Asie Rugby (in French). 16 July 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
- ^ "Players & Staffs" (in Japanese). Green Rockets Tokatsu. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
External links
- NEC, Toshiba share title, Daily Yomiuri, February 27, 2006
- NEC Green Rockets - official site
- Rugby gods smile on Green Rockets, Japan Times February 28, 2005
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