{"id":7342,"date":"2026-04-08T00:17:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rcbrs.de\/2026\/04\/08\/u14-youth-tournament-on-march-21-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T00:17:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:17:39","slug":"u14-youth-tournament-on-march-21-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rcbrs.de\/en\/2026\/04\/08\/u14-youth-tournament-on-march-21-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"U14 youth tournament on March 21, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
U14 put in a great performance at the home tournament<\/div>\n
\nWhat incredibly good work the RCBRS youth coaches have done. At least I can\u2019t explain otherwise why the U14 games on March 21 were such a pleasure to watch \u2013 it can\u2019t have been down to the parents, at least not in every case. Because on the touchline there were some who knew so little about the rules of rugby that \u2013 just like me \u2013 they often didn\u2019t know which team was actually in the lead. <\/p>\n

The fact that the games were so worth watching also means that the Cologne-Bonn team played about as well as the Maastricht-Aachen team, or the D\u00fcsseldorf Dragons. But sometimes the points come quickly! \u2013 for example, when RCBRS player No. 11 (Hugo from Cologne) intercepted an opponent\u2019s pass, he was at the try line with the rugby ball less than ten seconds later. He did that twice. <\/p>\n

And it also means that the players \u2013 compared to the U12, or at least the U12 as I remember it \u2013 have internalized the rules much better, so the whistle didn\u2019t have to go constantly.
\nAnd although there were already several moments where I, as a spectator, thought, \u201cOof! That was tough!\u201d, and I flinched a bit just from watching, all the players were always back on their feet straight away.
\nNobody cried. Nobody talked about \u201cunfair,\u201d not even when their own team lost by a very narrow margin. The kids learned a lot there. Not just running faster, passing more safely, and tackling lower. <\/p>\n

Really: a huge compliment to the coaches!<\/p>\n

Of course, what made the tournament a success wasn\u2019t just the kids\u2019 good play, but also the great organization by the volunteers. On the pitch, everyone knew who was playing when. There were no coaches looking for kids or kids looking for their team. The line for burgers was never long and there were enough \u2013 over a hundred? \u2013 for everyone (very important!), even though the cheese is said to have been very good.
\nLet\u2019s hope that all the guests from outside Bonn got home safely. Because a few hundred meters from the RCBRS club grounds, in the Rheinaue, 50,000 Kurds celebrated their traditional New Year festival, Newroz. And to avoid traffic chaos and make it easier for the Kurdish visitors to leave, the police completely closed Bonn\u2019s S\u00fcdbr\u00fccke in both directions in the afternoon. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Text: Wolf Kantelhardt<\/div>\n
Pictures: Thomas Breidenbach<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U14 put in a great performance at the home tournament What incredibly good work the RCBRS youth coaches have done. At least I can\u2019t explain otherwise why the U14 games on March 21 were such a pleasure to watch \u2013 it can\u2019t have been down to the parents, at least not in every case. Because…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcbrs.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcbrs.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcbrs.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcbrs.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcbrs.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rcbrs.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcbrs.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcbrs.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcbrs.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcbrs.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}