Seven’s star Sao Paulo exploits

New Zealand and Bay of Plenty women's sevens player Kelly Brazier is causing a stir on social media with her latest exploits at the Sao Paulo Sevens.

A video of the classy mid-fielder is doing the Facebook circuit an it shows the 26-year-old giving a 'don't argue with me” face fend to a Brazilian opponent at the last round of the World Rugby HSBC Women's Sevens Series.


Kelly Brazier scoring against Brazil. Photo: FotoJump.

The video titled Kayla McAlister Try shows Kelly taking a quick penalty tap inside Brazil's 22. The fleet-footed Kelly, steps left then right, wrong footing her opponent. She then plants a beautiful left hand fend in the face of the Brazil defender who goes flying back about 2m.

Kelly then firers a beautiful 15m flat pass out to her winger Kayla who runs the 20m to score in the corner.

New Zealand went on to win the match 41-0. Unfortunately for the New Zealanders, they would go down 10-19 to Canada in the semi-finals and would have to settle for the bronze medal when they beat USA 28-0.

Australia took out the tournament beating Canada 29-0. The latest results place New Zealand equal second with Canada on 28points with Australia maintaining their lead on 40 points.

Meanwhile, the video has gained plenty of traction on social media with more than 500 people liking the post and getting 105 shares. One post from Daniel Roberts liken Kelly's fend as Jonah like.

The series now heads to Atlanta on April 8 and 9.

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Posted by World Rugby Sevens Series on Sunday, February 21, 2016

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