Lady Luck was not smiling on Uganda's 7's women's team as the World Cup draw was carried out in Dubai yesterday. Uganda have been placed in pool D with fellow Africans, South Africa, New Zealand and Italy.
New Zealand were unbeaten in the 7's code for 7 years until last year when they lost to England at the Amsterdam 7's and at a one off game at Twickenham. New Zealand qualified for the World Cup as number 2 from Oceania after losing twice to Australia during the Oceania World Cup qualifiers.
Italy qualified for the World Cup after coming 6th during the FIRA - AER qualifiers.
South Africa beat Uganda in the final of the CAR qualifiers to qualify as Africa's number 1 seeds while Uganda also booked themselves a World Cup slot by virtue of being finalists.
The tournament kicks off on March 5th and the match schedule will be released at a later date by the IRB.
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