Paris 7s
Paris 7s - The HSBC tournament comes to an end. Paris 7s closes its doors after 2 days of intensive competition while London gets ready to welcome the last stage of the circuit.
Africa didn't perform at its best in Paris and we expected better from them. Kenya ends with a score of 7 to 26 in frontof Australia and South Africa lost 17 to 7 againstAustralia as well, allowing themto win the Plate. Final ranking, our two teams are then respectively in the 7th and 2nd position !
Friday, May 13th: KENYA 29- 14PORTUGAL SOUTH AFRICA24 - 5 ENGLAND
Saturday, May 14th: KENYA22 - 7RUSSIA KENYA17 - 19NEW ZEALAND SOUTH AFRICA 30 - 7BRAZIL SOUTH AFRICA 31 - 0AUSTRALIA
Sunday, May 15th:
FRANCE 24 - 5 KENYA
KENYA 7 - 26 AUSTRALIA
SOUTH AFRICA 10 - 21 SAMOA
NEW ZEALAND 19 - 29 SOUTH AFRICA
SOUTH AFRICA 17 - 7AUSTRALIA
In Paris, African Rugby was well represented. Indeed, Abdelaziz Bougja Rugby Africa's chairman and Oregan Hoskins SARU's chairmanfound themselves in the Blitzboks' changing rooms shortly before their entranceon the field. They took advantage of this opportunity to express their pride and remind that we were only one team : Africa.
The speech may have inspired our teams because once again, Seabelo Senatla was crowned best try scorer with 10 tries, far ahead ofDuarte Moreira fromPortugal who put 6 tries.
Next weekend in London, the poolswill be the following: POOL A: SAMOA SOUTH AFRICA UNITED STATES CANADA
POOLB : FIJI AUSTRALIA ENGLAND WALES
POOL C : FRANCE KENYA SCOTLAND PORTUGAL
POOL D : ARGENTINA NEW ZEALAND RUSSIA BRAZIL
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Rugby Africa (www.RugbyAfrique.com) is the governing body of rugby in Africa and one of the regional associations under World Rugby. It unites all African countries that play rugby union, rugby sevens, and women’s rugby. Rugby Africa organizes various competitions, including the qualifying tournaments for the Rugby World Cup and the Africa Sevens, a qualifying competition for the Olympic Games. With 39 member unions, Rugby Africa is dedicated to promoting and developing rugby across the continent. World Rugby highlighted Ghana, Nigeria and Zambia as three of the six emerging nations experiencing strong growth in rugby.
