Injured 7s players return for South Africa

By fijivillage.com

05/10/2012

Good news for South Africa Sevens fans as several of their players who struggled with injuries towards the end of last season are fit and were selected for the season opener.

Players like Chris Dry, Frankie Horne, Kyle Brown, Paul Delport, Branco du Preez and Cecil Afrika are part of the team.

South Africa is in Pool A with the All Blacks Sevens team, USA and Canada.

The Gold Coast Sevens kicks off next Saturday with Fiji playing Scotland at 2.42pm in its first pool match.

Fiji will play Tonga at 5.58pm and will then play Australia at 9.46pm.

Story by: Akuila Cama

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