Poltics
Wednesday 06 March 2024 6:00 pm
AFC Wimbledon is station to host international rugby this 365 days with the likes of the USA station to drop on Plough Lane in London, it is to be confirmed on Thursday.
Hosted by LIT7s, the match will feature the likes of the United States, Ireland, Germany, Jamaica and Uganda across men’s and girls’s sevens tournaments in south west London.
Great British athletes can even feature earlier than this years Paris 2024 Olympic Games, nonetheless they’re station to bustle out for invitational aspects named the Shoguns and Hammerheads.
The British Military and Rugby for Heroes can even field aspects.
Wimbledon goes oval shaped
It comes in the absence of the London 7s, which were ditched by World Rugby when the game’s governing body reshuffled its international time desk.
And it is station to provide the likes of the USA with preparation earlier than this 365 days’s Olympic Games, where the Stade de France will host the sevens.
Mike Friday, Head Coach of USA 7s, says why he’s coming into his groups: “This could also be a great match and masses more and masses wished in the 7s calendar in England with London 7s no longer occurring this 365 days.
“It is a real alternative for international groups to get treasured competitors time for avid gamers in the lead up to the Paris Olympics.”
Olympic preparation
Ireland player Fergus Jemphrey mentioned: “Highly competitive tournaments appreciate the LIT7s London 7s consistently brings out the most fascinating in the squads and avid gamers attending.
“I’m taking a undercover agent ahead to this contemporary tournament in Would possibly presumably perchance also, and taking half in in opposition to one of the predominant most most fascinating avid gamers on the earth.”
Dilapidated GB player Megan Gaffney mentioned: “At Hammerheads we are consistently taking a undercover agent to play at a competitive stage of rugby so being in a position to play in opposition to International groups and avid gamers is continually something we undercover agent ahead to.”
The match is scheduled for 25 Would possibly presumably perchance also with an reliable announcement expected on 7 March.
AFC Wimbledon’s Plough Lane, officially is named the Cherry Red Information Stadium, at show hosts the League Two facet moreover to Trim League rugby outfit London Broncos.
