The Business of Rugby Union At the naval sports field in Phnom Penh, Peter Maley and a few friends are getting ready for a game between two of the four clubs that compete in Cambodia’s domestic rugby competition. As usual, the first job is to strap a couple of tall posts to the crossbar of the soccer goals at each end.
“We don’t have a stadium of our own. We usually rent sports fields from the military, and they’re always soccer pitches,” says Maley, secretary-general of the Cambodian Federation of Rugby. “It’s too much trouble to dig up the soccer goals and replace them, so we just make them taller.”
