President of the Ghana Rugby Football Union (GRFU), Mr. Herbert Mensah has announced the Ghana Rugby Men’s Sevens national team that will take part in the Africa Rugby international tournament in Lome, Togo on the 28th of May 2016.
The team is made up of twelve players with Mr Simba Mangena as Head coach.
Preparations for the West Africa international tournament started in earnest when a squad of 25 players assembled in Accra with a technical team under guidance of Mr. Mensah focused on physical conditioning and fitness.
Simba Mangena (Head Coach of Conquerors SC), Clement Dennis (Player / Coach of Griffons RFC), Amuzuloh Salim (Head Coach of Cosmos Buffaloes RFC) and Dan Hoppe (Idas Sports RFC) put the squad through a rigorous training programme that ended end of April 2016.
Phase II of the preparation started early May when a reduced squad of 16 players started camping in Accra.
The tournament will see six teams compete for top honours in Lome, Togo on 28 May in two pools with Niger, Burkina Faso and Togo in Pool A and Mali, Ghana and Bénin in Pool B. All matches will be played in Lome at the Stade Agoè-Nyivé stadium starting from 11am with the final at 3pm.
In announcing the Ghana national Rugby squad, the Eagles, Mr. Mensah said that Ghana Rugby faces many challenges to get to the stage where it can compete in major international tournaments such as the World Rugby HSBC Sevens Series that played the penultimate Round for 2016 in France over the weekend.
Mensah continued to say, “Ghana Rugby is in a process of rebuilding or rather building from ground levels and it will take dedication and especially patience to get the sport to a stage where it can enter the world stage on a much higher level. Being competitive with limited resources is however very important and a lot of planning and effort has gone into the preparations for the Togo tournament.”
According to Mr. Simba Mangena, who is in charge of the technical team under Herbert Mensah, preparations are going according to plan and the squad is eager to make all Ghanaians proud of their national Rugby team.
The Full Squad Is As Follows:
Dan Hoppe (Idas Sports RFC)
Clement Dennis (Griffons RFC)
Sani Alhassan (Cosmos Buffaloes RFC)
Alex Dorpenyo (Conquerors SC)
Seidu Razak (Conquerors SC)
Solomon Akumba (Cosmos Buffaloes RFC)
Michael Acquaye (Conquerors SC)
Calestus Bosoka (Conquerors SC)
Emmanuel Kalos (Conquerors SC)
Joseph Mensah (Griffons RFC)
Erick Acquah (Griffons RFC)
Nasiru Aminu (Conquerors SC).
Ghana Rugby Announces National Men’s Sevens Team
No comments:
Post a Comment