Ghana Rugby Eagles in full flight for Bronze Cup

The Ghana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) is in full flight towards destination 2018 Rugby Africa Bronze Cup when the Ghana Eagles will engage Lesotho, Mauritius and Rwanda in Cape Coast-Ghana on 9 and 12 May 2018.

The tournament forms part of Rugby Africa’s men’s 15s Rugby tournaments with the winner of the Bronze Cup automatically progressing to the Silver Cup and, on winning that, progressing to the Gold Cup that will also serve as qualifiers for the Rugby World Cup.

According to the President and Board Chairman of Ghana Rugby, Mr Herbert Mensah, many project teams have been placed on flights that have taken off with no landing gear.

“The Rugby Africa Bronze Cup is a national event and we, Ghana Rugby, has the responsibility to represent Ghana and fly its flag high as a very first priority. The next priority is to win the Bronze Cup in pursuit of our vision to take the Ghana national teams, the Ghana Eagles, to global tournaments such as the various Rugby World Cups, the Commonwealth Games and the Olympics,” Mensah said.

Technical preparations for the important encounter in Cape Coast was boosted with the arrival of South African coach, Ludwiche van Deventer, for the second of three stints on Saturday the 31st of March 2018.

Mensah also said, “Ghana Rugby, like many sports associations and federations globally, is under extreme financial pressure to fund all it needs to do. The pro-bono support by Coach Van Deventer is therefore highly appreciated and we believe and hope that this sacrifice by him will lead to greater things in future for both him and Ghana Rugby.”

According to Mensah the association with Coach Van Deventer started in 2017 with Mission Kampala when the Ghana Eagles took part in the Rugby Africa Men’s Sevens tournament for the first time.

He also expressed his appreciation to the newly elected President of the Blue Bulls in South Africa, Mr Willem Strauss, for having facilitated the relationship and who is indeed the sponsor of this contribution.