The Strasbourg Christmas touch rugby tournament last weekend once again demonstrated why Touch Rugby is one of the fastest growing team sports.

With 16 teams from 7 countries containing many of the top European players, this is one of the most popular and competitive club tournaments in Europe.

At this high standard of play, the Luxembourg Touch club managed not only hold its own coming 12th in the tournament but, in terms of spirit, the team's performance demonstrates why touch is so appealing as an amateur sport. Top scorer was 15 year-old Elouise Fortunel, showing her father Eric, one of the more experienced players in the team, a thing or two about how to finish off moves. At the other end of age spectrum, Luxembourg also provided the oldest try scorer at the tender age of 53, who scored a dramatic 50m try in over-time to tie the last game of the tournament.

For those who feel that they can fit somewhere in this spectrum and want try out Touch, see www.touch-luxembourg.lu or www.facebook.com/LuxembourgTouch/

Luxembourg Touch is a section of the Rugby Club de Luxembourg (RCL)

Touch is a new sport originating in the 1960s as a non-contact form of Rugby league. It’s a 6-a-side game with rolling substitutions played on a half-sized rugby pitch. Because the game is not based on physical contact, but on speed, skill and strategy, it is played by both sexes, and very often in mixed teams. Luxembourg Touch organises regular Tuesday night training and games sessions at Stade Michel Wagner in Weimerskirch. For further information, email: luxembourgtouch@gmail.com