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Burkina Faso’s national rugby sevens team is making progress. She is preparing for Tremblay-en-France, with the 2024 Olympics as her goal.
Here is the Burkina Faso rugby 7 team which is being formed in France, in Tremblay-en-France (Seine-Saint-Denis). “Rugby 7s in Burkina Faso had a fairly low level. Now we have to raise this level, improve the physique and also the knowledge of the game. There are good athletes, but they don’t have a physique that meets the standards rugby”, says Bronson Wein, coach. Of which act.
“In Burkina Faso, we do not yet have infrastructure worthy of the name”
“Burkina Faso is a Sahelian country, we don’t have strong enough guys, so we thought we were going to play on our qualities: explosiveness, liveliness and above all endurance and speed. Everything this, this rhymes with rugby at 7”, says Stéphane Bationo, scrum half. The goal for the team is qualification for the 2024 Paris Olympics. “[Dans] our perspective of progress, it is really important to come to France in good conditions, because unfortunately, in Burkina Faso, we do not yet have infrastructures worthy of the name, so it is complicated to evolve and practice our own sport”indicates Antoine Yaméogo, hooker.