Chipu eye World Rugby U-20 seventh-place finish
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Kenya U20's Raphael Wanga dodges Chris Tagoai of Junior Manu Samoa during World Rugby U20 Trophy 2023 at the Nyayo National Stadium on Saturday, July 15, 2023. Samoa won 34-25. Photo/Sportpicha
Kenya’s Under 20 rugby team captain, Edmund Omondi, says the
team will be putting in the maximum effort to end their World Rugby Under 20
trophy campaign with a win after losing all three pool games.
Chipu, as they are popularly known, lost 25-7 to Uruguay,
51-3 to Netherlands and 30-17 to USA and Omondi says the team has a chance to
redeem themselves as they face Hong Kong in the 7th place
final.
“Hong Kong is our last match here in Scotland and a game
that we plan to redeem ourselves with because we’ve had a not-so-good
performance but from the first game, there has been improvement.
This being our last game, we are hopeful we will show what
the boys have been working on it, and the boys will give 100% because its our last
game; so, we are going all out to try redeem our names and show what Kenya is
all about because we know we are better than what we’ve been doing and how
we’ve been performing.”
With Hong Kong having lost all their group matches as well,
this will be a battle of pride and Omondi hopes Kenya comes out on top.
“We are hopeful for a win, the game will be hard because
Hong Kong have also lost all their games but our spirits are high because we
want to get back home with a win which we are hopeful to get.”
Hong Kong suffered one of heaviest defeats of the
tournament, having lost 105-20 to Japan in their opening game and followed that
up with a 101-0 defeat to Scotland.
Kenya and Hong Kong collide at the Hive Stadium, Edinburgh,
Scotland at 1345hrs local time.
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