{"id":451202,"date":"2026-05-29T14:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/451202\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T14:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:05:10","slug":"fiji-mens-7s-ready-for-valladolid-challenge-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/451202\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiji Men\u2019s 7s ready for Valladolid challenge tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fiji Airways Men\u2019s National 7s coach Osea Kolinisau says his side is ready to fight for a strong finish as they prepare to kick off their Valladolid 7s campaign in Spain tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking from the team\u2019s base in Spain, Kolinisau says Fiji remains firmly in contention despite sitting in fifth place alongside Spain, France and the USA.<\/p>\n<p>He admits the side has fallen short in recent semi-finals and playoff stages, including in Hong Kong where expectations were high.<\/p>\n<p>However, Kolinisau said the squad has learnt valuable lessons from those performances and is determined to respond positively this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>He says the players are highly motivated heading into another important championship round and are focused on proving they can compete consistently at the highest level.<\/p>\n<p>The Fiji Airways Men\u2019s side will begin their campaign against France at 11.40 tonight.<\/p>\n<p>They will then face the USA at 4.24am tomorrow before taking on hosts Spain at 12.12am Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Men\u2019s Cup quarter-finals begin at 2.27am Sunday, the semi-finals are scheduled for 8.44pm Sunday, while the final will be played at 2.26am next Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Fijiana 7s side will take on the USA at 8 tonight before facing Australia at 12.51am tomorrow and South Africa at 8pm tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fiji Airways Men\u2019s National 7s coach Osea Kolinisau says his side is ready to fight for a strong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[229649,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-451202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-feature-valladolid-7s","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451202","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=451202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}