Captain courageous shares challenges
‘We are all looking forward to the task ahead’
FIJI Airways Fijian 7s captain Seremaia (Jerry) Tuwai speaks about the challenges they face as they prepare for the 2021 PacificAus Oceania 7s in Australia.
Tuwai said the players had been bonding together now for three months and were looking forward to their game against Australia this Friday.
“We have been getting together with the boys doing activities that can bring us together as a team,” he said.
“We are all looking forward to the task ahead and we have done necessary sacrifice not just for us or for our family but for the national as a whole.”
In his earlier interview, Tuwai mentioned about the hardship and the dedication his players needed to go through if they wanted to wear the white jersey.
He revealed that senior players in the team had played an instrumental role to keep the players together as family after being away from their loved ones for more than three months.
“According to the management everything is going well and what I hear from the boys is that they are gutted and looking forward to the tournament next weekend.”
He added that one of the big thing was staying away from families and he thanked the senior players who had stepped up and took the leading responsibility to guide the younger players.
“We all are aware of the challenge and the sacrifices we have to make for our families and the nation as whole. It’s been long and everyone one of us is looking forward to playing Australia and New Zealand, whom we last met in the World Rugby Sevens Series a year ago.
“I think all the boys have been training really well for past few months and we are excited for the Oceania 7s and it will be a good ground for us to try and put together a team that will contest and play in Tokyo.
“It is really important for all of us, as the experience players who have been playing in the series have been out for about a year now and I think playing against teams like New Zealand and Australia that has been playing with us in the series it will be a really good test and an opportunity for us to put together a team that can defend the gold medal in Olympic Games.”