Spain undertakes the North American tour in search of sensations for the final phase

The Spanish rugby 7 team face this weekend in vancouver (Canada) the penultimate stage of the regular phase of the World Serieswhich will conclude next weekend in New Yorkwith the purpose of building confidence for the final phase.

At the conclusion of this North American tour, the four best teams in the second category will join the eight elite teams to compete in the three stages that will determine the world champion, which will be held during the spring in Hong Kong, Valladolid and Bordeaux.

The new format of eight teams has not smiled so far on Spainwhich has been last in one tournament and second to last in the other three, seventh in the classification only ahead of Great Britainso the team Paco Hernandez will seek to dispute in the British Columbia Canadian its first semifinals of the course.

For this, the ‘Lions‘They must finish Saturday’s day among the first two in a complicated group, in which they will successively face New Zealand (20:41, Spanish peninsular time), South Africa (00:50 on Sunday morning) and Great Britain (4:18).

Paco Hernandeznational coach, has alleviated the significant losses he suffers for this tour —particularly the captain Juanchin Ramos and the forward Enrique Bolinches— with the return to the call of Juan Martinez and Tiago Romerotwo veterans who had been out of their plans for more than a year.

The rest of those summoned are Manu Moreno, Ángel Bozal, Martín Sorreluz, Tobías Sainz-Trápaga, Josep Serres, Roberto Ponce, Gabriel Rocaries, Jaime Manteca, Antón Legorburu, Eduardo López, Pol Pla and Jeremy Trevithick.