Spain achieves a historic second place in the Vancouver World Series

The Spanish rugby 7 team This Sunday he achieved a historic second place in the tournament vancouver (Canada), in his third appearance in the final of a stage of the World Series, after beat Fiji in the semifinals (24-17) and lose the title match to South Africa (12-38).

The South Africans, intractable all weekend and who beat Spain decisively on Saturday in the group stage (7-28), imposed their enormous physical strength and the experience of having already won 46 tournaments on the circuitincluding the Grand Final last May in Los Angeleswhen they also beat the ‘Lions’.

In the semi-final against Fiji, Spain showed from the beginning the ambition to play the third final in its historywith tremendous aggressiveness in the center kicks, on which he built a 17-point lead that ultimately allowed him to eliminate the leaders of the classification.

Jaime Manteca put three conquerable restarts in the same area and Manu Moreno won as many possessions that ended in a try, the first supported by the Sevillian striker himself and the other two planted by Eduardo Lopezwhose counterfeits were indefensible for the Polynesian players.

Nacani Boginisoko and Jeremaia Matana closed the gap (17-10) still in the first half and Joseva Talacolo tied at the beginning of the second, when Spain was playing numerically inferior due to the exclusion of Pol Plawho pushed an opponent without the ball in a dribbling action.

Back on the grass, Pla stole the oval in his own field, pursued it with two kicks to follow and was tackled by Matana when he was going to dive into the goal area, which earned the Fijian center the exclusion, who could not even prevent him from Anton Legorburu Score the fourth Spanish try (24-17).

With one less player, however, the Olympic runners-up still tried a desperate attack to take the match to extra time and managed to break the lead line by Terio Veilawabut the defensive return of Jeremy Trevithick It was brilliant, allowing Spain to qualify for the final.

South Africa did not allow the Spanish to dream of the title, since the forcefulness of their tackling would allow them to fish the oval at the points of contact, and thus they won a one-way first half in the rehearsals of Ryan Oosthuizen, Sebastian Jobb and Shilton Van Wyk They decided the match (0-17).

Van Wyk certified the victory of the ‘Blizbokke’ in the first play of the second half, which lacked suspense due to the great difference in a score with the Spanish scores leading to 12-38 Trevithick and Legorburu replicated by those of the South Africans Gino Cupido and Impi Visser.