{"id":142667,"date":"2026-05-30T18:02:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T18:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/shujaa-to-face-france-in-7th-place-play-off-in-valladolid\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T18:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T18:02:48","slug":"shujaa-to-face-france-in-7th-place-play-off-in-valladolid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/shujaa-to-face-france-in-7th-place-play-off-in-valladolid\/","title":{"rendered":"Shujaa to face France in 7th place play off in Valladolid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The national men\u2019s rugby sevens team,Shujaa will face France in the 7th place play off of the ongoing HSBC World Championship series \u00a0in Valladollid,Spain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kenya lost its two opening group A matches against Australia and South Africa 15-10 and 14-0 respectively before bouncing back to beat Great Brittain 12-7 \u00a0in their final group fixture to book their place in the quarter final where they lost 21-0 to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The defeat relegated Kenya to the 7th place play off where they will face France on Sunday\u00a0 at 2pm East Africa Time.<\/p>\n\n<p>After the Valladolid leg Kenya will switch its focus to the final LEG SCHEDULED June 5th-7th \u00a0in Bordeaux,France.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya is ranked 7th on the 12 team standings with 8 points.South Africa,Argentina and Spain occupy the top three slots with 20,18 and 16 points respectively.<\/p>\n<p>At the conclusion of the final leg in France bottom four teams will be relegated to the division 2.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/shujaa-to-face-france-in-7th-place-play-off-in-valladolid\/\">Shujaa to face France in 7th place play off in Valladolid<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national men\u2019s rugby sevens team,Shujaa will face France in the 7th place play off of the ongoing HSBC World Championship series \u00a0in Valladollid,Spain. Kenya lost its two opening group A matches against Australia and South Africa 15-10 and 14-0 respectively before bouncing back to beat Great Brittain 12-7 \u00a0in their final group fixture to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}