Motari Called for Kenya

Kenya head coach Benjamin Ayimba has called up Samuel Motari to join the rest of the squad ahead of this weekend’s Singapore 7s tournament. Motari, who will be making his debut in the team, comes in to replace injured fly-half Biko Adema.

The non-descript player sustained a hand injury during training that saw him subsequently miss last weekend’s Hong Kong Sevens where Kenya collected 10 points to remain eighth on 63 points. Motari was slotted as a reserve player in the squad named for Hong Kong and Singapore, and up to his call, his club-mate Sammy Oliech was in charge of the kicking duties.

He last featured in Shujaa’s training camp for the Confederation of Africa Rugby championships in Harare, Zimbabwe in 2014 and majored with the Kenya Fifteens side for a better part of 2015. Kenya is drawn in a relatively fair Pool C for Singapore where they will lock horns with South Africa, Scotland and Russia. “We are aiming to collect another 10 points in Singapore. We would like to make it better and improve on our Plate semi final reach in Hong Kong, if we can go all the way to the Cup semis that will be good for us,” Ayimba said. Ayimba will be looking to build a formidable squad that will compete at the Rio De Janeiro Olympic Games where the shorter version of the game will be making its first appearance in more than 90 years. Capital FM Kenya