Fiji Airways\u00a0Men\u2019s\u00a0National 7s winger Viuviawa Naduvalo\u2019s road to recovery remains uncertain, with the Fiji Rugby Union yet to provide an update on the injury he sustained during the Perth final.<\/p>\n
Naduvalo was injured after South African forward Ryan Oosthuizen powered through to score a try, knocking the winger aside with his shoulders while shrugging off his tackle.<\/p>\n
The Man of the Match from Singapore, and the current leading try scorer, was forced off the field following heavy contact.<\/p>\n
He played an instrumental role for Fiji, scoring a try before sustaining the injury.<\/p>\n
Fiji 7s coach Osea Kolinisau says he was proud of his players\u2019 performances, adding that against a side like South Africa, Fiji needed to start strongly and make use of their width.<\/p>\n
Kolinisau says minor mistakes proved costly, allowing the game to swing in South Africa\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n
He says the team will regroup ahead of the Vancouver and New York tournaments, as they aim to win the overall series, which remains their ultimate goal.<\/p>\n
The Vancouver 7s will be held from the 7th and 8th of March.<\/p>\n
Fiji is in Pool B with Australia, the United States, and Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fiji Airways\u00a0Men\u2019s\u00a0National 7s winger Viuviawa Naduvalo\u2019s road to recovery remains uncertain, with the Fiji Rugby Union yet to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[154318,111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-274647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-feature-perth-7s","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}