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HISTORY Initially the Lebanese players were all Australian born and came mostly from inner-city Sydney. They started playing full internationals in 1998. In that time they beat Italy, travelled to Japan and the U.S.A. and beat both of them (the latter in the World Cup qualifier) and won the Mediterranean Cup in France. They had to earn their place at the 2000 World Cup by winning the qualifying competition. First of all they won the Mediterranean group, defeating Morocco and arch rivals Italy, before travelling to Florida where they beat the USA, winners of the Pacific group. In 2002, Lebanon beat France 36-6 in Tripoli . Since then a domestic league has been set up and in 2005 a fully Lebanese team known as Lebanon Espoirs toured England and Wales. Lebanon Espoir (also known as Liban Espoir) have also toured Morocco. Recently they won their first victory on tour in Cyprus in 2006 playing a British combined services team. In 2007 they beat the Serbian national team on a tour to Serbia 16-14 and went on to defeat a Serbia Development XIII 50-0 The official website of Lebanon Rugby League is www.lebrl.com PLAYERS An increasing amount of Lebanese Australians are making it as professional Rugby League players, most notably Canterbury Bulldogs star Hazem El Masri and Wests Tigers hooker Robbie Farah . There is also a number of other Professonal Lebanese Australians Playing in all NSWRL Competitions, especially in the Jim Bean Cup who participate in the National Lebanese Team like Chris Salem (who was in the 2006 Sydney Bulls team that won the Jim Beam Cup), Charlie Farah & Mohammed Chahal. WORLD CUP 2008 ''See also 2008 Rugby League World Cup Qualifying '' Lebanon will face Ireland and Russia in Europe Pool Two with the winner of the pool qualifying for the World Cup and the Runner Up entering the Repechage round. COMPETITIONS Lebanon has participated in:
RESULTS ''Winning team shown first'' 1998
1999
2000 World Cup
2002 Mediterranean Cup
2003 Mediterranean Cup
2004 Mediterranean Cup
2006 Phoenician Cup 2008 World Cup Qualifying
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