Serbia celebrate historic birthday

Serbia RL is currently celebrating the first ever game of Rugby League played in the country, which took place 65 years ago yesterday. On 26 September 1953, the newspaper Politika - at that time the oldest and most popular in the former Yugoslavia - reported on a match that kicked off at 4pm, at the JNA stadium in Belgrade (today FC Partizan Bel

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