Kenya has lost out on
hosting the Confederation of Africa Rugby Sevens championships 2014 to Zimbabwe.
The Confederation of
African Rugby has awarded Zimbabwe the right to host the 2014 CAR Men Sevens
tournament which will take place on the 29th and 30th of November 2014 in
Harare, Zimbabwe. The tournament will be held at the Harare Sports Club and is
set to involve 12 countries, Kenya Uganda, Tunisia, Nigeria, Madagascar,
Namibia, Botswana, Senegal, Zambia, Ivory Coast, South Africa and the hosts
Zimbabwe.
CAR awarded Zimbabwe
the rights as a unanimous decision after Africa’s governing body had expressed
its approval of the union’s development and administration structures. CAR had
its representative Jean Luc Barthes in the country a month ago and he said he
was impressed with the progress that the country had made in its mandate of
effectively run the game of rugby.
In view of this
development, the Technical Director of the Nigeria Rugby Football Federation
(Fasimoye Olatunji) declared that the country is going to do well in the
championship this year, Nigeria is rated 6th best in 7’s in
Africa and we are determined to raise the bar this time. We will be selecting
players in the oncoming Independence Rugby 7’s scheduled to hold at the Onikan
stadium Lagos on the 31st October and 1st of November
2014, The tournament will feature both home and foreign based players.
The tournament
started in the year 2009 and has since grown to be the biggest Rugby 7s party
in Nigeria. Its 2013 edition had a wider International participation with clubs
from the UK, Egypt and Ghana adding the much needed International flavour.
However, clubs from every zones in Nigeria competed extremely well and we
witnessed two local teams in last year’s final (Cowrie RFC Lagos vs Nigeria
Police RFC). The Police team beat Cowrie RFC 12-7 to emerge 2013 champions.
This year the
tournament will feature Teams from Egypt, UK, Botswana, South Africa, Ghana and
eleven local teams from all the regions in Nigeria.
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