Rugby
The
President of Rugby Africa, Mr Khaled Babbou, attended meetings in London on the
16th of April, with his counterpart from Rugby Europe, Mr Octavian Morariu, and
members of World Rugby to discuss the
project of a World Rugby Nations Championship and its implications for
Tier 2 and Tier 3 countries.
Mr
Babbou, accompanied by the President of Ghana Rugby and Member of the Rugby
Africa EXCO, Mr Herbert Mensah, met with the President of World Rugby, Mr Bill
Beaumont and the CEO of World Rugby, Mr Brett Gosper, David Carrigy and other
World Rugby Executives ahead of the meeting on the World Rugby Nations
Championship.
The
discussions touched on the future of Rugby in Africa, its immense potential and
the strategies to keep growing the Game in Africa and improving performance at
the same time.
According
to Mr Babbou the encounter was a good platform to give his vision for the
growth and development of Rugby in Africa as well as the challenges to Mr
Beaumont and Mr Gosper and to touch base on the shared mission and vision of
both rugby bodies to grow the global rugby family and to make it a sport for
all, true to its values of integrity, passion, solidarity, discipline and
respect.
“As
one of the fastest growing Regional Associations of World Rugby the meeting
served to confirm Rugby Africa’s commitment to grow and develop rugby on the
African continent with its huge untapped potential despite the challenges it is
facing,” Babbou said.
Mr
Herbert Mensah was invited to join the Rugby Africa EXCO in Marrakesh, Morocco,
at its 13th General Assembly to contribute his experience in building
commercial value for Rugby Africa.
“Both
the formal and informal discussions laid the platform for Rugby Africa to work
closely with its governing body, World Rugby, in chasing shared objectives and
to open the doors for further discussions on support for a continent that has
enormous scope for growth,” Babbou said
Both
Babbou and Mensah believe the major challenge is and will be to establish
sustainable funding for the development and tournament programmes of Rugby
Africa as well as funding that will go beyond that to support its
high-performance Unions to excel once it enters the global stage of Rugby.
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