Kenya’s national rugby team Shujaa are back to the HSBC SVNS Shujaa for 2025 after defeating Germany 33-15 in their winner takes all playoff match in Madrid, Spain on Sunday 2 June 2024.
Shujaa trained hard and smart to outdo Germany following a two defeats encounter on the Challenger Series this year.
The Germans took lead of the game through Chris Umeh’s unconverted try but Kenya’s Tony Omondi converted Vincent Onyala’s try to give Shujaa a 7-5 lead.
John Okoth touched down with another try under the posts while Omondi converted for a 19-10 score and when Maximilian Heid landed a third unconverted try for Germany, the response from Shujaa was two tries from George Ooro and Kevin Wekesa with Omondi drilling home the conversions to confirm the return to the top tier after relegation in May 2023.
The team had earlier defeated Chile 36-7 in their final pool game on Saturday after a narrow 10-5 loss to hosts Spain and a 19-12 victory over Samoa in their opening fixtures on Friday
After the news of Kenya’s Shujaa qualification back into world of rugby series emerged, one notable man who managed the team back to the top , started trending online.
Kevin Wambua Muema , the beared coach with deep roots from Kamba land started trending with Kenyan’s all over the world congratulating the team head for good work done.
It would later emerge that Shujaa’s head coach Kevin Muema hails from Machakos County and is an alumni of Mumbuni boys high school.
