Philippine Volcanoes Team for Mumbai Sevens Named

The Philippine Rugby Football Union has announced the players selected for the Mumbai Sevens tournament, scheduled on October 13 & 14, 2012.

Tim Bweheni
Mark Chatting
Ryan Clarke
Kit Guerra
Robert Jones
Paulo Jordan
Jovan Masalunga
Harry Morris
Ron Pena
Kenneth Stern
Andrew Wolff
Rupert Zappia

Coach: Al Caravelli
Manager: Expo Mejia
Physio: Rico Barin

The Mumbai Sevens is the third leg in the HSBC Asian Sevens Series which includes Borneo, Shanghai and Singapore scheduled in November 2012. The Philippines finished 6th in Borneo and 7th in Shanghai. They are in Pool A with Japan, Singapore and Afghanistan in the Mumbai leg.

Group A: Japan, Philippines, Singapore, Afghanistan
Group B: China, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Iran
Group C: Taiwan, Korea, Kazakhstan, Pakistan
Group D: Hong Kong, Thailand, UAE, India

The series rankings after Mumbai will serve to decide the seedings for the fourth and final HSBC A7s event in 2012, the Singapore Sevens which will also play host to the Rugby World Cup Sevens Asian qualifiers.  

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