{"id":1052,"date":"2017-10-11T07:49:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T04:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ug\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2017-10-11T07:49:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T04:49:21","slug":"rugby-cranes-make-uganda-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/rugby-cranes-make-uganda-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby Cranes Make Uganda Proud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many things that this country needs to thank God for. First, we have the Uganda Cranes, and then, we have the Rugby Cranes.<\/p>\n<p>As we all cried out our pain in the recently held match between Uganda and Ghana, God blessed us from another side all together. Legends Rugby grounds was filled with jubilation and celebration after the triumph of Uganda\u2019s greatest rugby team. They beat Ghana 36-0, Zambia 35-0, and Morocco 42-10. Image taken from the New Vision<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1056\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1056\" style=\"width: 703px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/RUGBYCRANES3-703x4221.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1056\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/RUGBYCRANES3-703x4221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"703\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/RUGBYCRANES3-703x4221.jpg 703w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/RUGBYCRANES3-703x4221-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congratulations Rugby Cranes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the 7<sup>th<\/sup>, they managed to retain their African Rugby Championship title, and have qualified for the World cup sevens and common wealth games for their first time after their match against Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>Having retained this trophy here at home means a lot to us and thanks to the fans for supporting us. Said Ugandan captain Eric Kasiita. We had put on our A game to beat Zimbabwe and it means a lot to us as we can now showcase our talent out in the world because we have qualified for the world cup<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/Phillip-Wokorach-In-Action-aganist-Kenya-on-Saturday-at-Legends-rugby-grounds-Picture-by-John-Batanudde-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1054\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/Phillip-Wokorach-In-Action-aganist-Kenya-on-Saturday-at-Legends-rugby-grounds-Picture-by-John-Batanudde-11-1024x795.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/Phillip-Wokorach-In-Action-aganist-Kenya-on-Saturday-at-Legends-rugby-grounds-Picture-by-John-Batanudde-11-1024x795.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/Phillip-Wokorach-In-Action-aganist-Kenya-on-Saturday-at-Legends-rugby-grounds-Picture-by-John-Batanudde-11-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/Phillip-Wokorach-In-Action-aganist-Kenya-on-Saturday-at-Legends-rugby-grounds-Picture-by-John-Batanudde-11-768x596.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It looks like Uganda has now qualified for Dubai 7s on December 2017, Cape Town 7s in Dcember, Hong Kong 7s in April, Gold Coast 7s in and finally world cup 7s.<\/p>\n<p>I do not know a lot about rugby, but what I know is that this team deserves more than a hand clap. Thank you so much Rugby\u00a0 Cranes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many things that this country needs to thank God for. First, we have the Uganda Cranes, and then, we have the Rugby Cranes. As we all cried out our pain in the recently held match between Uganda and Ghana, God blessed us from another side all together. Legends Rugby grounds was filled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6038,"featured_media":1058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1131],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-rugby-cranes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}