Coca Cola West Red Sparks

Coca Cola West Red Sparks
コカ・コーラウエスト
レッドスパークス
Full name Coca Cola West Red Sparks
Union Japan Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s) Red Sparks
Founded 1966
Location Fukuoka, Japan
Ground(s) Sawayaka Sports Park
Coach(es) Shogo Mukai
Team kit

Coca Cola West Red Sparks RFC (formerly Coca Cola West Japan and originally Kitakyushu Coca Cola when founded) is a Japanese company-owned rugby union team based in Fukuoka city, Kyūshū. The coach is currently Shogo Mukai (appointed April 1, 2004), the former Japan national rugby union team coach during the 2003 Rugby Union World Cup.

The team won promotion to the expanded Top League of 14 teams at the end of the 2005-6 season, and was renamed Coca Cola West Red Sparks. The club motto is "Have Guts Have Glory" and their slogan for 2006 season: "Always Attack & Aggressive". In the fourth Top League (2006-7) the team came 10th, with four wins, nine losses and 21 points. It therefore did not need to take part in any play-offs. Sanix, the local rivals, came ninth.

The team is now (2007) one of three teams from Kyūshū in the Top League. The other two are Fukuoka Sanix Blues and newcomer Kyuden Voltex. The team mascot's name is Sparky.

Contents

Squad

Note: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under IRB eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-IRB nationality.

Player Position Union
Kenji Kura Hooker Japan
Shintarou Hinokuma Hooker Japan
Katsunori Yamashita Prop Japan
Ken Matsuo Prop Japan
Tatsukichi Nishiura Prop Japan
Ryo Iwamoto Prop Japan
Yusaku Kuwazuru Lock Japan
Hidetoshi Mine Lock Japan
Wataru Horita Lock Japan
Takeshi Matsumoto Lock Japan
Shuhei Kawashita Lock Japan
Wayne Ormond Flanker New Zealand
Kei Okada Flanker Japan
Angus MacDonald Flanker New Zealand
Tomohiro Yamaguchi Flanker Japan
Akihiro Iwanaga Flanker Japan
Yuki Ishimaru Flanker Japan
Elone Takitaki Number 8 Tonga
Shigeki Uemoto Number 8 Japan
Player Position Union
Keisuke Takeuchi Scrum-half Japan
Takeshi Katsuki Scrum-half Japan
Kotaro Morihara Scrum-half Japan
Soushi Fuchigami Fly-half Japan
Tetsuya Fukuda Fly-half Japan
Hisatoshi Yamada Fly-half Japan
Wataru Yoshihara Fly-half Japan
Shaun Webb Fly-half Japan
Brendan Neilson Centre Japan
Lelea Paea Centre Australia
Masaru Kanahori Wing Japan
Taiki Koyanagi Wing Japan
Brett Stapleton Wing Australia
Masahiro Tsuiki Wing Japan
Shigehisa Tokuzumi Fullback Japan
Yamato Eto Fullback Japan
Daisuke Haradome Fullback Japan
Genki Matsuoka Fullback Japan

[1]

Former

Coaches

Home ground

References

See also

External links