Shizuoka Blue Revs

Shizuoka Blue Revs
静岡ブルーレブ
Full name	Shizuoka Blue Revs
Union	Japan Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s)	Blue Revs
Founded	1984
Location	Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan
Ground(s)	Yamaha Stadium (Capacity: 15,165)
Coach(es)	Takanobu Horikawa
League(s)	Japan Rugby League One
2021	6th, White Conference ; Playoffs ; Round of 16
	Team kit
	Team kit

Shizuoka Blue Revs (formerly the Yamaha Júbilo) are a rugby union team based in Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan. The team came second behind Toshiba Brave Lupus in the second season of Japanese rugby's Top League (2004–05). They were coached by former All Black Grant Batty and Fijian player-coach Tabai Matson. Founded in 1984, its name was "Yamaha Motors Rugby Football Club". The team rebranded as the Shizuoka Blue Revs ahead of the rebranding of the Top League to the Japan Rugby League One in 2022.^[1]

The team name Júbilo means 'joy' in Portuguese, which has had a notable influence on the Japanese language.^[2]

Current squad

The Yamaha Júbilo squad for the 2021 season is:^[3]

Yamaha Júbilo squad
Props Heiichiro Ito Kazuhiro Kawata Sohei Nishimura Yuji Nishiuchi Shintaro Okamoto Kenta Otsuka Yuuki Tsuchiyama Yuji Ueki Koki Yamamoto Ryō Yamamura Hookers Kohei Eguchi Takeshi Hino Toshiya Hirakawa Shogo Naka Taishi Takabe Locks Murray Douglas Eishin Kuwano Shunpei Miura Yuya Odo	Loose Forwards Shohei Awata Paddy Butler Ryousuke Funahashi Uwe Helu Shoya Hirokawa Rikiya Matsumoto Yuhimaru Mimura Hayato Nishiuchi Kwagga Smith Riki Sugihara Arito Takahashi Scrum-halves Yuki Kagoshima Minoru Tanoue Yuki Yatomi Fumihiro Yoshizawa Fly-halves Sam Greene Syoh Kiyohara	Centres Hiroto Kobayashi Kanta Shikao Atomu Shirai Viliami Tahituʻa Sione Tuipulotu Wingers James Dargaville Chikara Ito Tomokazu Kira Jayden Ngamanu Shota Tanaka Malo Tuitama Genta Wada Hironori Yatomi Fullbacks Ayumu Goromaru Hiroaki Ishizuka Kento Nakai

(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes player is internationally capped

Former players

Siale Piutau (centre, wing) - 2012-2017
Jerry Collins (flanker, number 8) - 2011–2013 seasons
Micheal Kingsbeer - joined March 2007
Brendan Laney (fly half, centre, full back) - joined March 2005
Leon MacDonald (fly half, full back) - 2004–05 season
Wataru Murata (scrum half) - retired at the end of the 2007–08 Top League season and became coach of the Japan national sevens team
Nathan Williams (centre, full back)
Takayuki Yonekura (hooker)

Coaches

Kevin Schuler - Director of Rugby
Tabai Matson - Player and Head Coach
Takanobu Horikawa - coach
Waisake Sotutu - backs coach, player
Simon Kerr - forwards coach

References

^ "La nouvelle ligue japonaise s'appelle la Japan Rugby League One". Asie Rugby (in French). 16 July 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
^ Nomikos Vaporis, Constantine (Jan 6, 2012). Voices of Early Modern Japan: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life during the Age of the Shoguns. ABC-CLIO. p. 99. ISBN 978-0313392016. Retrieved June 12, 2015. The Portuguese and their culture had some influence on Japanese clothing, accessories, food and language.
^ "Yamaha Júbilo: The Team". Yamaha Júbilo (in Japanese). Retrieved 29 November 2018.

External links

Toshiba, Yamaha set to do battle in Microsoft Cup final - Japan Times, January 31, 2005
Yamaha rugby home page (in Japanese)

[1] "La nouvelle ligue japonaise s'appelle la Japan Rugby League One". Asie Rugby (in French). 16 July 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.

[2] Nomikos Vaporis, Constantine (Jan 6, 2012). Voices of Early Modern Japan: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life during the Age of the Shoguns. ABC-CLIO. p. 99. ISBN 978-0313392016. Retrieved June 12, 2015. The Portuguese and their culture had some influence on Japanese clothing, accessories, food and language.

[Yamaha_Júbilo:_The_Team-3] "Yamaha Júbilo: The Team". Yamaha Júbilo (in Japanese). Retrieved 29 November 2018.

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v t e Shizuoka Blue Revs – current squad
Forwards	Samuela Anise Kaku Bunkei Murray Douglas Kohei Eguchi Joren Fuchi Ryousuke Funahashi Richard Goh Jones Satoshi Hatazawa Takeshi Hino Toshiya Hirakawa Malgene Ilaua Heiichiro Ito Kazuhiro Kawata Eishin Kuwano Saito Lamin Dieng Rikiya Matsumoto Yuhimaru Mimura Shunpei Miura Takayoshi Mohara Shohei Nishimura Yuya Odo Shintaro Okamoto Kwagga Smith Riki Sugihara Arito Takahashi Shoji Takuma Richmond Tongatama Yuji Ueki Ryuto Yagisawa Kenta Yamashita
Backs	Keagen Faria Johnny Fa'auli Sam Greene Bryn Hall Kenta Iemura Hiroaki Ishizuka Chikara Ito Shunsuke Ito Tomokazu Kira Sho Kiyohara Hiroto Kobayashi Alapati Leiua Eito Maki Kodai Okazaki Kakeru Okumura Kanta Shikao Atomu Shirai Clinton Swart Viliami Tahituʻa Minoru Tanoue Malo Tuitama Futo Yamaguchi Hironori Yatomi Yuki Yatomi Fumihiro Yoshizawa
Coach	Naoya Okubo