{"id":10554,"date":"2022-06-22T11:35:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T09:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/?p=10554"},"modified":"2022-06-22T11:35:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T09:35:41","slug":"junior-boks-hit-the-road-running-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=10554","title":{"rendered":"Junior Boks hit the road running in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9543\" src=\"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/NewsG_Junior_Springboks_Mudpath-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"NewsG Junior Springboks Mudpath\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/NewsG_Junior_Springboks_Mudpath-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/NewsG_Junior_Springboks_Mudpath.jpg 473w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Junior Springboks arrived in Italy on Tuesday evening and immediately went about their business to fine-tune their preparations for Friday\u2019s opening match of the Under-20 Six Nations Summer Series against England in Verona.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-man squad flew out of Cape Town on Monday evening via Dubai, finishing their 24-hour travel schedule with a bus trip from the airport in Milan to their base in Verona.<\/p>\n<p>After checking into their Verona hotel in the early evening, the group had activation and massages to get rid of the travel stiffness.<\/p>\n<p>The full training programme resumes on Wednesday, which will consist of some gym work in the morning and then planning and field sessions spread throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday is reserved for the captain\u2019s run, where the final preparation of the game strategy will complete the on-field training for Friday\u2019s opening clash with England.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Springbok head coach Bafana Nhleko said the squad was happy to arrive in Verona after their training build-up in Stellenbosch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone is excited to be here and over the next two days we will be fine-tuning our plans for England, which will be a massive game,\u201d said Nhleko.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want the boys to settle in as quickly as possible and get into their normal routine because we only have two days before the tournament kicks off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time in three years that the Junior Boks are playing in an overseas tournament again following the disruption of team travelling because of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Issued by SA Rugby Communications <\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Junior Springboks arrived in Italy on Tuesday evening and immediately went about their business to fine-tune their preparations for Friday\u2019s opening match of the Under-20 Six Nations Summer Series against England in Verona. The 30-man squad flew out of Cape Town on Monday evening via Dubai, finishing their 24-hour travel schedule with a bus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}