Author: Ex Nato

“Women’s rugby in South Africa is not as competitive as men’s rugby, and is also far less visible compared to other disciplines. It will be my personal commitment to form a respectable women’s National rugby team”. Athletes participating in the 2019 Universiade do not only dream of medals, podiums or the Tokyo 2020 Olympics: they […]

“As we well know, playing against Italy is always hard and doing it in Italy is even more difficult, but now that we have won, we have aim to the top: we want to become the tournament Champions”. Ian Jason, leader of the French women’s rugby sevens team, does not mince words in order to […]

“The girls followed my instructions very well. They remained calm and tightened the lines, playing a great match which they wonderfully won”. Riaan Van Der Merwe is the head coach of the South Africa women’s rugby sevens team in this Universiade 2019. He feels optimistic about his athletes’ path during these rounds, especially after the […]

“The match against Canada has been a tough one, we hoped to have more ball possession, but at least we had a good defence. The only flaw I recognise is that maybe we committed too many fouls, but in the end it went for the better because we really wanted to win. Now we just […]

“It has been a difficult round, but we relied on our team spirit, and this let us reach rugby sevens semi-finals. The union of all our talents made the difference”. The secret of Russia team success in the rugby competition at 2019 Universiade, according to the leader Vitalii Tikhonovich, lies in this perfect chemistry developed […]