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 front of Australia and South Africa lost 17 to 7 against Australia as well, allowing them to win the Plate. Final ranking, our two teams are then respectively in the 7th and 2nd position !

Friday, May 13th :
KENYA 29 – 14 PORTUGAL
SOUTH AFRICA 24 – 5 ENGLAND

Saturday, May 14th :
KENYA 22 – 7 RUSSIA
KENYA 17 – 19 NEW ZEALAND
SOUTH AFRICA 30 – 7 BRAZIL
SOUTH AFRICA 31 – 0 AUSTRALIA

In Paris, African Rugby was well represented. Indeed, Abdelaziz Bougja Rugby Africa’s chairman and Oregan Hoskins SARU’s chairman found themselves in the Blitzboks’ changing rooms shortly before their entrance on 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 of Duarte Moreira from Portugal who put 6 tries.

Next weekend in London, the pools will be the following  :

POOL A :
SAMOA
SOUTH AFRICA
UNITED STATES
CANADA

POOL B :
FIJI
AUSTRALIA
ENGLAND
WALES

POOL C : 
FRANCE
KENYA
SCOTLAND
PORTUGAL

POOL D :
ARGENTINA
NEW ZEALAND
RUSSIA
BRAZIL