The rugby team delegation left for Osaka, Japan, to participate in the Asian qualifiers for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which will be held next Saturday and Sunday, and the teams of Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, China, Singapore, Thailand and India are also competing.

The UAE men’s rugby team maintained third place on the continent for the second year in a row in the Asian Sevens Championship. The Japanese team ranked first, the Hong Kong team came in second place, and the UAE national team outperformed well-established teams such as the Chinese, Malaysian, South Korean, Singaporean and Philippine teams.

The Rugby Union, in cooperation with the International Federation of the Game and the Emirates School Education Foundation, organizes rugby festivals for first, second and third stage students in government girls’ schools.