Shakeel targets top-four spot
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KARACHI: Pakistan rugby group conduct manager Shakeel Ahmed has suggested that he will try and collect a best talent from a nation for a arriving 15-a-side Asian Rugby Championship, while his altogether devise stays to take Pakistan into a tip 4 teams of a continent.
To brand a nation’s tip rugby talent, Shakeel has altered his preference approach, holding a inhabitant trials to categorical cities instead of job players to a centralised camp.
So far, a open trials have taken place in Bahawalpur and Bahawalnagar, with a subsequent one set to be staged in Lahore.
“It is about a accessibility as many of a time a gifted players can’t make it to a trials since of travelling problems so we took a trials to them,” Ahmed told The Express Tribune. “I’ve been really astounded with a audience and I’m intensely assured that we can put together a really good group for a Asian Championship since of a approach these new players are performing. we feel we’ll be surpassing faster in a rugby universe now.”
Ahmed, who doubles as a Pakistan Rugby Union Technical Director, feels a ‘Get Into Rugby’ module has helped widespread a competition opposite schools and colleges.
“People are now some-more wakeful of a game, generally in Punjab, hit sports are renouned and people can describe to rugby as good since sports like wrestling and kabaddi were already flattering large here, so there is a lot some-more seductiveness now,” he said. “In Sindh, too, we have women’s and men’s teams. we feel we can get behind to multiplication dual with a right plan.”
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