Rugby started in jordan in 1989 and it has been practiced by some expats in Amman.
They have formed JRFC Jordan Rugby Football Club and they used to host number of tournaments named after his majesty king Abdullah II
Now we have an official union in Jordan named Jordan Rugby and we have formed a new rugby club: Amman Citadel Rugby Club

Jordan rugby 1st test match that was held in Dubai 14th of May 2010 vs Lebanon, Total Rugby TV was there to cover this major step for Jordan Rugby. to view total rugby episode you can visit Jordan rugby website

Jordan Rugby is recruiting, send your request here http://www.jordanrugby.com/join-jordan-rugby.html if you would like to represent Jordan & play rugby in the coming Asian Olympics 2010, China.

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finally here are the final results of Kish Island Rugby sevens 2009 as of Jordan Rugby News page

Final
Kish	7 – 15	Iran
Plate Final
Georgia	18 – 19	Jordan
Day 1 Results
Georgia	0 – 24	Iran
Kish	15 – 7	Jordan
Georgia	5 – 19	Kish
Iran	26 – 0	Jordan
Georgia	14 – 0	Jordan
Iran	26 – 7	Kish

As you can see Jordan was unlucky in this tournament due to the fact that we didn't have any subs therefore our players had to play all games without resting, while other teams had fresh players coming into the game every 2-3 minutes! But i was proud of my team performance we showed great commitment and played very well.

On Sep 11 2009 Published in The National, a new English newspaper launched by the Abu Dhabi Media Company.

Dubai Exiles enjoy their iftar feast with a deluge of points

DUBAI // The iftar enjoyed by Ghaith Jalajel, the Jordanian hooker, will have tasted even sweeter than usual yesterday evening.

The Dubai Exiles No 2 touched down in time just as his try all but sealed a 42-14 opening day Gulf Cup victory over Muscat.

Jalajel’s score, which put the Exiles 26-0 up, followed shortly after sunset and he celebrated by breaking his day-long fast with a well-earned banana. A dramatic storm just before kick-off did little to affect the preparedness of the winning team as strong winds blew down the fence that rings the neighbouring netball court at The Sevens, and there was even some unseasonal rainfall.

Jalajel’s front-row colleague Chris Deacon also went over for the victors and John Beeton dotted down in the corner.

The rest of the scoring was left to Paul Beard, the Arabian Gulf full-back, whose 27-point haul included two tries.

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In my previous post I have set the initial values of JordanRugby website and now I want to list the new updates in regard of its popularity:

According to Alexa.com in the last post our rugby team website PageRank was ranked 12,700,000 today it is its 8,222,694 with a 35% improvement in its PageRank, this improvement was after having the website listed in several directories & most importantly dmoz.org which has the major effect in this improvement to reach this growth rate.

The next step after having it listed in several directories I have used a bunch of tags those were the same in each page in order to test the effectiveness of similar tags for each page, let's see after a week from now if the PageRank will be affected?

The current numbers for the website are:

	Date
	August 15, 2008	September 22, 2008	Difference
Visits	391	581	32%
Unique Visitors	195	327	40%
Page Views	2,090	2,930	28%

Still working on increasing the website's popularity will display the new results soon.

While working on my thesis and going thru SEO (Search Engine Optimization) SMO (Social Media Optimization) and PageRanks i went to look up the PageRank of our team's website! To tell the truth i was shocked to see that it was ZERO ;) because i am the webmaster of those websites (Jordanrugby.com, jrfc.org).

JordanRugby.com is pretty new website launched May this year. So i have decided once i am done from my thesis in mid September i have to start working on raising Jordan Rugby website to a higher PageRanks, as for today Jordan Rugby stats are:

• 391 Visits
• 195 Unique Visitors
• 2,090 Page views

I asked myself would you want the new PageRank to be 9 as i have checked the rank of Facebook's today? Definitely not! i am not that crazy so below is the list of websites that we share same interests’, and we are in the same region all together therefore am going to decide our magic number based on that.


As what the results shows it seems that we as Jordan Rugby are inactive in the web sphere just like our friends in Syria the zenobians, but unlike our mates across our neighboring continent Cairo & Alexandria's team they have a pretty high page rank compared with us.

i have included two important websites: AGRFU the governing body of rugby in the region and IRB the International Rugby Board to help me decide where we should go, for sure i would love to hit the 9 as Facebook but to benchmark i looked around us.

That’s why i have decided to go for (5), a very reasonable number in regard of the surrounding websites, we mostly win each and every game we play now our game is online ;)
To get over there am thinking now that we have to get more active in social network sites from which we will be able to generate more traffic into our website plus having a youtube channel for our rugby team does not sound like a bad idea since ppl spend most of their time over there!
In 3 months time I will go back to review where we will be and let us hope its much more than ZERO !!!
Cheers… & Long Live Jordan Rugby

The Zenobians arrived at the grass pitch of Petra University on the 6th of June to play their away game in Jordan with only 8 players, that’s when the referee made his call to disqualify the Zenobians since 8 players are not enough to play a rugby 15s game and Jordan Rugby gained 5 points & 1 extra League point. Even though Jordan Rugby and the Zenobians decided to play a "Friendly" 10s game where Jordan won the game 57 - 5.

So now all the teams participating in the Mashreq League has 5 points each, for more details about the tournament table please check the table on Jordan Rugby WebSite.

Photos of Jordan Rugby players holding the Arabian 7s Challenge Cup were on every player profile on facebook last week. Unfortunatly i wasnt able to join their happiness winning this trophy but i have celibrated this win from my dormitory room #2 here in Greece!!!

News has been posted about this big win in AGRFU web site; check the News here.

Great job guys enjoy the win.