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Colin Grzanna is a German international rugby union player, playing for the Berliner RC in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team. He is captain and player-coach of his club team and has also captained the German team at times. ==Biography== Colin Grzanna started playing rugby when he was five years old, in 1984, playing with his South African cousins. He is currently playing for Berliner Rugby Club, where he also covers a coaching role, together with Gerrit van Look, another player of the German national team. Although playing for Berlin for the most part of his career, Grzanna spent the 2000 season with the Northwood Crusaders in Durban, South Africa before returning to Berlin again. He was part of the German Sevens side at the World Games 2005 in Duisburg, where Germany finished 8th.〔(Rugby: Fiji assure gold medal in final seconds ) World Games website, accessed: 27 January 2009〕 He has been filling in as German captain for an injuired Jens Schmidt in late 2007 and early 2008. Himself injured later in the year, suffering a broken hand and requiring pins after the game against SC Neuenheim on 13 September 2008,〔(Favorit unter Druck ) ''Der Tagesspiegel'' – Match report, accessed: 27 January 2009〕 he planned to retire from the national team but, according to his captain Schmidt, he loves the game too much and Germany needs his skills too badly for him to retire.〔(Härte, Herzblut, Hoffnung ) Frankfurter Allgemeine – Article on Jens Schmidt, accessed: 27 January 2009〕 His greatest success as a national team player was the promotion to Division 1 of the European Nations Cup in 2008. In an interview after the promotion-winning game, which he captained, he stated that, in his opinion, this was the greatest moment in German rugby in almost 30 years.〔(German champagne on ice ) IRB website – Interview with Colin Grzanna, published: 1 May 2008, accessed: 27 January 2009〕 Grzanna voiced his anger with the image of the game in Germany, where it is often unfairly associated with only being played by rough individuals. He considers it the perfect game, as – he says – there is a position for everybody in the game, regardless of someone's size or height.〔(Rugby-Bundesliga: Berliner RC mit hohen Zielen ) ''Der Tagesspiegel'', accessed: 27 January 2009〕 Grzanna last played for Germany on 2 May 2009, against Russia, and has since retired from the national team. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Colin Grzanna」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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