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RAEV UP YOUR ENGINES! Get your boys and girls ready!
Machakos is once again calling! Get your vuvuzelas on board too for the 3rd
edition of the annual Masaku Rugby Sevens scheduled for June 27-29 at Kenyatta
Stadium in Machakos.
Organizers confirmed that teams from Italy, Norway, Fiji,
United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Uganda will be involved. Kenya Harlequin are the
defending champions of the 16-team competition. This year’s tournament will have
its prize money doubled up to sh 1million.
All top teams in the Kenya Cup league have been invited
alongside the British Army from the Nanyuki Barracks.
Apart from the main cup, there will be the schools and the
ladies categories in the championships whose mission is to devolve rugby in all
the counties.
And it is not just all play and no fun for all you Jacks out
there! With the first edition attracting 7,000 spectators and the second
20,000-this year the target is 50,000. The games kick off will be preceded by a
concert a day before at the newly established Machakos Peoples park.
By Embukane Vincent Libosso.
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