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in the sport of

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Overview

The German team has, for the most part, played in the B-Division of the European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, however, it earned promotion to the A-Division in 2009.

2009

The German team earned promotion to the A division of the European championship at the 2009 tournament in southern

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. It had won promotion to the elite division of European under-18 rugby for the first time in many years. Germany beat

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11-3 in the final of the B tournament to clinch promotion. The German team took part in the tournament with the following squad: * Julius Nostadt, Tim Menzel, Chris Hilsenbeck (

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), Tom Schiiling (

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), Samy Füchsel ( Berliner RC), Fabian Tacke, Kevin Nelson ( SC Germania List), Jörn Schröder (

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), Elmar Heimpel, Nicolas Kurzer, Bastian Himmer, Robert Hittel, Luis Becker, Raffael Ruck (

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), Dustin Dobravsky (Canada), Timo Vollenkemper ( Wiedenbrücker TV), Sam Rainger (

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), Matthias Marin, Sebastian Kößler, Konstantin Hoffmann (

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), Michail Tyumenev, Nicolas Müller, Dennis Denzin, Phil Szczesny (

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), Chris Kleebauer (Gloucester), Pascal Drügemöller ( SC Neuenheim), Jerome Ruhnau (

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2010

In the 2010 edition of the European under-18 rugby union championship, the team, freshly promoted to the A group, pulled off a surprise 44-0 victory over

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. Germany lost its opening game to eventual runners-up

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20-11, but managed to win its second game, against Romania, 44-0. In its third and final game in the tournament, against

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for fifth place, Germany lost 18-13. Chris Thau, Publications Manager of the IRB, commented after the Romania game that it was the first time in the almost 40 years he had been watching German national teams, that a German team played world class rugby. The German team, coached by Jan Ceselka (

) and Christian Lill (

), took part in the tournament with the following squad: * Nicolas Kurzer, Robert Hittel, Hannes Huber, Matthias Kunzmann (

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), Sebastian Kößler (

), Elmar Heimpel, Luis Becker (

), Pascal Drügemöller ( SC Neuenheim), Phil Szczesny, Nicolas Müller, Adrian de Riz, Pascal Fischer (

), Jörn Schröder (

), Fabian Tacke, Kevin Nelson, Kevin Riege ( SC Germania List), Samy Füchsel ( Berliner RC), Lukas Deichmann, Jens Listmann, Adam Howes (

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), Kilian Kleine ( Coventry R.F.C.), Julius Nostadt, Chris Hilsenbeck, Tim Menzel (

), Eddie Mallaby ( Harlequin F.C.), Robin Plümpe (Waiheke Island RFC).

2011

Germany won its opening game of the 2011, defeating Belgium 27-11 and thereby achieving the teams aim of not being relegated. The team then suffered a heavy 3-87 defeat against Scotland, a game that clearly showed the difference between the standards of rugby between the two nations. In the final game of the tournament, Germany lost 0-40 to Georgia and finished fourth in its division. Germany called up the following players for the 2011 tournament:EM-Kader U18
'' DRV'' website, accessed: 6 April 2011 * Adrian de Riz, Daniel Windolf, Nico Kretschmer, Felix Schippe (

), Kevin Riege ( SC Germania List), Robin Brömer, Hasan Tekkal (

), Sebastian Fromm (

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), Marc Hittel, Vincent Fischer, Carsten Lang (

), Leonard Becker, Luca Hoffmann ( SC Neuenheim), Frederick Lüthke ( Stuttgarter RC), Ali Sürer ( TB Rohrbach), Max Utikal (

), Lukas Deichmann, Jens Listmann (

), Philipp Gerigk (

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), Julius König ( Wald-Merscheider TV), Theodor Lorenz Schmidt-Bleek, Lukas Wende, Maxim Gazzo ( Berliner RC), Kilian Kleine, Eddy Mallaby and Rory Sarjeant (all three playing in

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