NEC Green Rockets

NEC Green Rockets
NECグリーンロケッツ
Full name NEC Green Rockets
Union Japan Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s) Green Rockets
Founded 1985
Location Abiko, Chiba, Japan
Ground(s) Various stadiums
Coach(es) Peter Russell
1st kit
2nd kit

NEC Green Rockets is a Japanese rugby union team in the Top League. The team's captain is Ryota Asano. The previous captain was Takuro Miuchi, who is currently the captain of the Japan national rugby union team. Before the semi-professional 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 All-Japan Championship final for the second time on February 27, 2005, beating Toyota Verblitz 17-13. They drew 6-6 with Toshiba Brave Lupus in the 43rd Japan Championship final on February 26, 2006 after an effective defensive effort and the sin-binning of Glen Marsh in the last ten minutes of the game.

Honours

Current squad

The provisional NEC Green Rockets squad for the 2016–17 Top League season is:[1]

NEC Green Rockets squad

Props

  • Japan Takahiro Doi
  • Japan Mao Enoki
  • Japan Yuta Inose
  • Japan Toshiaki Maejima
  • Japan Sunao Takizawa
  • Japan Hikaru Tanaka

Hookers

  • Japan Teppei Akiyama
  • Japan Shin Kawamura
  • Japan Yo Sato
  • Japan Yosuke Usui

Locks

  • Japan Taku Hirosawa
  • Japan Yuta Onodera
  • New Zealand Nick Ross
  • Japan Ryunosuke Yamada

Loose Forwards

Scrum-halves

Fly-halves

Centres

  • Japan Shindo Kamaike
  • Japan Koichi Matsuura
  • Japan Shigeki Morita
  • Japan Yosuke Morita
  • New Zealand Jordan Payne

Wingers

  • Japan Teruya Goto
  • Japan Koichiro Kubota
  • Japan Hiroyuki Miyajima
  • Japan Yuki Miyamae
  • Japan Koshiro Shuto
  • Japan Sho Takenaka

Fullbacks

  • Japan Yuki Takahira
  • Japan Hiromasa Yoshihiro
(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes player is internationally capped

Former players

See also

References

  1. ↑ "NEC Green Rockets Member Profile" (in Japanese). NEC Sports. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
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