{"id":483480,"date":"2026-02-16T10:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/483480\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T10:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:29:08","slug":"argentina-and-germany-take-early-advantage-in-svns-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/483480\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina and Germany take early advantage in SVNS 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Argentina<\/a> and Germany<\/a> grabbed gold in Nairobi as all 12 teams started their HSBC SVNS 2 campaigns over the weekend.<\/p>\n

All teams will travel to Montevideo and S\u00e3o Paulo next month as they aim to claim a spot at the HSBC SVNS World Championship later this season.<\/p>\n

Last month in Dubai, Argentina were runners-up to South Africa<\/a> in the HSBC SVNS 3 women\u2019s competition. Despite losing their final match of the tournament to South Africa, Las Yaguaret\u00e9s got the full 20 point haul thanks to wins against China, Spain, Brazil<\/a> and Kenya.<\/p>\n

Sofia Gonzalez was named Women\u2019s Player of the Tournament in Kenya.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had a really long time to get ready for this (tournament),\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been training for three years with our new staff, and everyone has put in a lot of work, physically and mentally.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been doing a lot of hard work, so we\u2019re really happy with the outcome. (This is) not a coincidence \u2014 it\u2019s because of everything that we\u2019ve been doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo now, we\u2019ll go back home and take some time off to recover, because it\u2019s been a really hard weekend \u2014 even though we\u2019ve had a lot of fun and it\u2019s been great rugby, it\u2019s also been really hard on our bodies.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo taking the time to recover well and then, in terms of Montevideo, we will obviously look back on our games. Even if we placed first, we still have a lot to work on and try to cut out our mistakes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll focus on that and hopefully we will have the same outcome in Montevideo. We will for sure be going for that first place again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spain<\/a> claimed third at Nyayo National Stadium, followed closely by China, Kenya<\/a> and Brazil.<\/p>\n

In the men\u2019s competition, Germany were surprise champions as they pipped Kenya and the USA<\/a> to top spot.<\/p>\n

A barnstorming Day 2 in Nairobi saw the Wolfpack beat the USA and Belgium. With only Kenya the only side capable of overtaking them on paper, they had the Eagles to thank as Zack Test\u2019s team beat the host nation 21-5 in the final clash of the day.<\/p>\n

The USA took second overall for the weekend, Kenya claimed third, Uruguay<\/a> were fourth, Belgium<\/a> were fifth and Canada<\/a> finished winless across two days of action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Argentina and Germany grabbed gold in Nairobi as all 12 teams started their HSBC SVNS 2 campaigns over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-483480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483480","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=483480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}