Full name | Rugby Club Orléans |
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Founded | 1966 |
Location | Orléans, France |
Ground(s) | Stade Marcel-Garcin (Capacity: 1740) |
President | Marc Dumas and Philippe Dal Molin |
Coach(es) | Frédéric Austrui |
League(s) | Fédérale 1 |
Rugby club Orléans is a semi-professional French rugby union team, from Orléans. They currently play at Fédérale 1.
The club has recently provided a number of players for the Germany national rugby union team with Alexander Widiker and the brothers Guillaume and Matthieu Franke.[1] Additionally, Frenchman Bruno Stolorz, a coach with the club, is also one of the two German coaches.[2] Stolorz is provided to the German team by the Fédération française de rugby to improve Germany's performance in the sport.[3] With Gilles Pagnon, another RCO player made his debut for Germany against Russia on 13 March 2010.[4]
Clemens von Grumbkow, another German international, left the club in 2009 to join Rugby Club I Cavalieri Prato.[5] In 2011, Olivier Galli was selected from the club to represent Germany.