FIJI TOP SEEDS FOR TUSKER SAFARI SEVENS
May 24, 2007
Digicel Fiji are the top seeds for the Tusker Safari Sevens. Asiko Owiro, the Tusker Safari Sevens tournament director said they were the best in the world at the moment and there was no way they could be seeded elsewhere apart from the top. Completing the top four teams are Emerging Springboks, Zimbabwe and Kenya. “We are excited that Fiji will be coming. They are specialists in the shorter version of the game and exciting to watch,” Owiro said.
This is a full-strength Fiji team which is led by player-coach Waisale Serevi who was here last year as a chief guest and player for Kenya’s Shujaa side. Among some of the players expected in Nairobi are William Ryder and Lepani Nabuliwaqa who are among the top try scorers in the IRB Sevens World Series leg before the Emirates Airline London and Edinburgh Sevens.Digicel Fiji lead the table with 104 points before the last two legs in the United Kingdom with Samoa 10 points adrift. They won the USA and Australia leg of the IRB Sevens World Series and finished second in Hong Kong and New Zealand to Samoa in both cases.
The draw will be done on Thursday next week.
Owiro said the bulk of the teams will arrive on June 7 although London Irish will be in Nairobi on June 4 and transfer to Mombasa before returning on the even of the tournament. Among the teams which will arrive on June 7 are Emerging Boks, Mpumalanga, Bristol University Select, SEP Capital Lions, and Zambia. Namibia arrive on June 6.
Most of the teams shall be required to conduct coaching clinics in nearby schools. “We have already arranged for Fiji to coach in some of the schools,” Owiro said.
Teams: Bristol University Select, Cote d’Ivoire, Emerging Springboks, Digicel Fiji, Japan, Kenya, London Irish, Namibia, Mpumalanga, Morocco, Namibia, SEP Capital Lions, Shujaa, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Standby teams: Kenya Harlequin, Tanzania and Botswana.
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