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#RebuildRugby Ukraine - Day 2 As my second full day in Odesa emerges, the storm clouds have rolled away over night ane we wake to the beautiful sunrise over the Black Sea (above). Bouyant by the weather, it must be time to get ready and hit the gym. The God of Laziness was surely looking...

Bogdan Zhulavsky becomes The Rugby Foundation's Ambassador in Ukraine. 2025 has certainly started at pace for 45 year old Bogdan Zhulavsky. On January 1st we announced that Bogdan had been awarded The Rugby Foundation's Spirit of Rugby Award for his consistent hard work in supporting and...

Spirit of Rugby Award 2024 For 45 year old Bogdan Zhulavsky life will quite literally never be the same again. Bogdan is from the beautiful city of #Odesa in the West of #Ukraine , a region with a proud rugby pedigree. Before the war began, he was the Director of Rugby Club CREDO-1963 and...

#RebuildRugby Ukraine - Day 1 Day 1 My first full day in Odesa thankfully began with electricity; the Grand Ortara Hotel is a wonderful place and it's easy to see exactly why it was very popular with holiday makers before the war began. Post conflict, there will certainly be a need to focus...

Read our Daily Blog Here Getting to the Start Line #RebuildRugby it seemed very appropriate when we came up with the idea travelling from moldova to Italy back in July and it turns out it truly matches the hopes and dreams of Ukrainian Rugby. The journey from the Moldovan Capital is one I...

Taking Tackling Seriously As Las Vegas preperes to host 2 National Rugby League (NRL) matches from Australia and an International Rugby League match between USA and Canada at the beginning of March, The Rugby Foundation together with D1 Henderson, are producing a Tackling Masterclass with ...

Micronesia Tour 23   And so "Growing the Game Globally" continues as Phil Klevorik begins his Micronesia Tour taking the TRF message and the game of rugby all the way from Guam back home to Las Vegas via Hawaii where he will check in with the guys supporting those who have lost loved ones,...

Supporting the victims of the Maui Fires   This week TRF launched a fundraising campaign alongside members of the Hawaii Rugby Union to support the 1400 plus people who have lost their homes in the devastating fires in Maui and who are now being sheltered in centres such as the War Memorial...

World Police & Fire Games 2023   The World Police & Fire Games (WPFG) is kind of self-explanatory, it's an Olympic style competition every two years with only slightly fewer competitors than the actual Summer Olympics and is considered the third largest athlete attendance event in the world. ...

Immediately following the Gibraltar 7s in June, TRF CEO Phil Klevorick & EMEA / Event Director Mike Mulroy swapped their referee and management hats and took a tour that would see them travel the length of the Mediterranian and more besides to build new contacts, reach new places and engage more...

Double Award for PRYF   At the conclusion of yet another successful edition of the Portugal Rugby Youth Festival at the University of Lisbon, the team from Move Sports, the brains behind this and other events, were presented with two awards by EMEA Director, Mike Mulroy. Dubbed "The...

Awards go to the Gibraltar RFU Team   Gibraltar is a small peninsula 3 miles long by less than 1 mile wide at the Southern tip of the Spanish Mainland. Fought over for centuries given it's strategic position at the entrance to the Med, it has been part of the UK (formally) since 1713. The...

North American Invitational 7s   Once again TRF's CEO, Phil Klevorick, travelled to the North American Invitational 7s in Utah primarily to manage the match official team but also to help spread the TRF and Rugby message. The NAI7s is the largest youth rugby festival in the Americas...

In a whirlwind week, our CEO, Phil Klevorick, has travelled from our Head Office in Las Vegas, through Doha in Qatar and on to incredible border that separates Zimbabwe from Zambia, the incredible Zambeze River and the Victoria Falls. During his time at the Falls, Phill was able to meet the...