National Rugby Tournament Postponed to October

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson

The Chairman of the Northern Region Rugby Association Alex Kapotho Kamara yesterday told pressmen that the Association has resolved to postpone its National Rugby competition earlier scheduled to commence in the second week of September to October this year. Kamara said the decision to postpone the tournament arrives as a result of the ongoing West Africa Senior Secondary School Examination-(WASSCE) which many of the Rugby players are currently writing. “We cannot organize the tournament as proposed for in the second week of September because our players are busy writing to the WASSCE so we have decided that the competition be organized in October this year as we continue to plan and will eventually communicate the actual a final date.” He revealed. The proposed competition which is to be hosted in Makeni, North-East Sierra Leone will help to popularize the sport and also provide the opportunity for the public to watch competitive rugby games. Rugby is a global game close-contact team sport that was first played in England during the first half of the 19th century. Rugby is now a popular sport in many countries of the world, with clubs and national teams found in places such as Japan, Ivory Coast, Georgia, Uruguay, and Spain but at the top level the sport is still dominated by the traditional rugby powers of Australia, England, France, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa and Wales. The sport among women is one of the world’s fastest-growing sports across continents is also played in Sierra Leone.