{"id":288545,"date":"2025-11-16T15:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T15:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/288545\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T15:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T15:53:09","slug":"afrika-and-roos-applaud-team-work-for-africa-cup-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/288545\/","title":{"rendered":"Afrika and Roos applaud team work for Africa Cup success"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the final, won 22-0 by South Africa<\/a>, Afrika said the attitude of the players during the tournament, a strong desire to play for the team and each other, and a good team spirit were foundations they could build on during their five matches, in which they scored 214 points without conceding a solitary point in Nairobi.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe players really deserve the credit, they did put in such hard work and the results were a welcome reward for that,\u201d said Afrika.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe came here to defend our title, but also to qualfiy for the Challenger 3 tournament, something we managed to do. So it is mission accomplished.\u201d<\/p>\n

Afrika was happy that the players stuck to the game plan: \u201cThere was a good bond in the squad and the players remained a tight knit group throughout the weekend. That helped in us executing what we wanted to.\u201d<\/p>\n

The SA coach added that the next phase of their rebuilding phase will get under way next week.<\/p>\n

\u201cNext up is the international invitational tournament in Dubai in two weeks\u2019 time, as part of the Emirates Dubai Sevens, so the focus will move to that now.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will name some players in that squad that are still developing as we need to broaden the base for the Challenger 3 tournament in January, that will also take place in Dubai.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe we will have good internal competition inside the squad to make it to that big one in Dubai next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Afrika said he is very proud of this group and believes the country are too: \u201cWe really go out there to represent out country to the best of our abilities and to make them proud, I think we managed that. A big thank you to all the supporters, it really helps to motivate us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Team captain Nadine Roos also complmented her teammates for their effort.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe really came here with a strong mindset and purpose and I think we showed what we are capable of,\u201d said Roos.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the way we defended, especially in the final against Kenya, proved how much we wanted to win as we kept them out, as we did with all our opponents during the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roos (48) scored the most points for the team and was also named Player of the Final. Maria Tshiremba (7), Simamkele Namba (6) and Patience Mokone (6) scored the most tries for the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the final, won 22-0 by South Africa, Afrika said the attitude of the players during the tournament,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-288545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}