Russian Cup (Rugby League)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Russian Cup (¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿) is a rugby league competition held annually by the Russian Rugby League Federation for professional, semi-professioanl and amateur clubs in Russia. In the 2006 Russian Cup the final was contested by Lokomotiv Moscow and the Kazan Arrows in which the final was eventually won by Lokomotiv 16 - 12. Rugby league football, usually called simply rugby league, is a full-contact form of football, played with a prolate spheroid ball by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, following rugby league's split from the Rugby Football Union in 1895 its rules were changed in order to create a more entertaining version of the sport. Frequently cited as the toughest and most physically demanding of any team sport in the world, the primary aim in rugby league is to carry or kick the ball towards the opponent's goal line where points can be scored by grounding the ball; this is called a try.

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