President of Rugby Africa, Herbert Mensah, has congratulated Uganda on their triumphant victory over South Africa in the Rugby 7s in Mauritius.
The president, who was very impressed by the high level of performance from both sides and believes that Africa has the best athletes, was full of praise for the performance exhibited in the series held in Mauritius.
“This is the first time that Rugby Africa has had a competition. This Rugby Africa 7s tournament is in Mauritius over two weekends, so we are copying the format that you are seeing in the challenge series”.
“The quality of Africa has always been very good. Our athletes, in my view, are the best. The problem is, do they get competition space in time, and when we do, is it at the right level?” Herbert Mensah asked.
“World Rugby is changing a lot of this format; it is getting a lot more interesting in this kind of delivery of competitions.
One of them is the challenge series. Mauritius is here, and we had a qualification for the challenge series. The top two went through over two weekends, and we have seen it on a point basis.”.
“I have witnessed an extraordinary final: South Africa against Uganda. Wow. The quality was something else, and to see Uganda’s come through yet again was something to hold. Now we have Madagascar and Uganda, both of whom qualify for the challenge series, ” he added.
“I am just so incredibly happy because what it means is that we have the quality of competition. We now have an interest in Rugby Pass and World Rugby. We also have interest from SuperSports in terms of what we are doing, and I say we are in a truly fantastic space.”.
The Uganda Rugby 7s team has won back-to-back Cup titles at the 2024 Rugby Africa 7s in Mauritius. Uganda Rugby 7s will return to the World Rugby Sevens Challenger series for the 2024–2025 season, where they will be joined by Madagascar.
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