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Zachary Porthen and Camden Schoeman, who led the SA Schools teams last month, will again wear the captain\u2019s armbands when the two SA Under-18 sides open the U18 International Series against England and France in Paarl on Friday.<\/p>\nPorthen will lead the SA U18 team against England at Paarl Gimnasium (15h30), while Camden\u2019s SA U18 \u2018A\u2019 side take on France at 13h30 at the same venue. Both matches will be broadcast live on SuperSport.<\/p>\n
The two squads gathered in Stellenbosch on Sunday to start their preparations for the series, which includes three rounds of matches \u2013 all of them at Paarl Gimnasium \u2013 and for the coaches, Katleho Lynch (SA U18) and Cobus van Dyk (SA U18 \u2018A\u2019), Friday\u2019s matches will provide a great foundation from which they can build for the rest of the series.<\/p>\n
The second round will be on Tuesday 23 August and the action will conclude on Saturday 27 August, with the Junior Springbok coaching team of Bafana Nhleko and Chean Roux supporting the two teams.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe already saw the massive potential these players have when we were together for a week in July after the U18 Craven Week, and to be able to work with them at international level is a great privilege,\u201d said Lynch.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe boys are eager to learn, they work incredibly hard and apart from days full of rugby activities, they still make time to keep up to date with their school work, which takes a lot of dedication.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe realise we\u2019re up against two countries who invest a lot of time and energy into their junior programmes and it will be a proper test for our players, but one we can\u2019t wait to get stuck into.\u201d<\/p>\n
Van Dyk shared these sentiments: \u201cWe are blessed with some wonderful talent at U18 level and the excitement under the players, to now play with guys who they often face as opponents for their schools and provinces, is palpable.<\/p>\n
\u201cNone of these guys have represented their country at international level, after the planned tour to Georgia last year was cancelled, but the players realise the enormous responsibility that comes with it and will give everything they have for the jersey in the coming weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n
With a few players unavailable to play on Friday, the selectors have indicated that they may call up replacements after the weekend\u2019s matches to ensure full squads are available for the remaining encounters.<\/p>\n
The teams are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n SA Under-18 to face England in Paarl:<\/strong><\/p>\n 15 JC Mars (Western Province) Replacements: Referee:<\/strong>\u00a0Dylen November<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n SA Under-18 \u2018A\u2019 to face France in Paarl:<\/strong><\/p>\n 15 Jeneil Losper (Western Province) Replacements: Referee:<\/strong>\u00a0Ruhan Meiring<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Zachary Porthen and Camden Schoeman, who led the SA Schools teams last month, will again wear the captain\u2019s armbands when the two SA Under-18 sides open the U18 International Series against England and France in Paarl on Friday. Porthen will lead the SA U18 team against England at Paarl Gimnasium (15h30), while Camden\u2019s SA U18 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11539","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\/11539","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=11539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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