{"id":26407,"date":"2008-02-06T17:10:20","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T17:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/imported-41\/"},"modified":"2008-02-06T17:10:20","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T17:10:20","slug":"imported-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=26407","title":{"rendered":"Narrow defeat for SA U20 against France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Two good tries in the second half saw the visiting French Under-20 Training Squad register a narrow but deserved 15-10 victory over their South African counterparts in an entertaining match at Velddrif yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The SA U20&#8217;s had the slight upper hand during the opening stages and deserved their lead of 5-0 at the break.&nbsp; The French gave a much better performance in the second half and they did well to convert their superior possession into points. &#8220;I am happy with what I saw in the match. They are in the middle of their season and are also playing in the Northern Hempisphere&#8217;s under 20 Six Nations competition. While we are still at the start of the season. Some of our guys are in Super 14, Vodacom Cup and the National Sevens squads,&#8221; said Eric Sauls, coach of the South African U20-side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The two teams will play their second and final match on Saturday ay 4pm at the same venue. &#8220;I have a group of 36 players at the camp and will test other combinations as the ones I tested in the first match,&#8221; said Sauls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The national U20 coach believes there in still a lot of work to be done before the team will depart to Wales for the IRB&#8217;s U20 World Championship in June. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <strong>Scorers:<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <strong>South Africa U20 &#8211;<\/strong>&nbsp;Tries: Omphile Seabela, Wynand Willis. <strong>France U20&nbsp;&#8211; Tries:<\/strong> Wenceslas Lauret, Leo Griffoul. Conversion: Griffoul.&nbsp;Penalty: Ludoric Rado.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>By&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hannes Nienaber<\/span><\/a> and <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarugby.co.za\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>www.sarugby.co.za<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two good tries in the second half saw the visiting French Under-20 Training Squad register a narrow but deserved 15-10 victory over their South African counterparts in an entertaining match at Velddrif yesterday. The SA U20&#8217;s had the slight upper hand during the opening stages and deserved their lead of 5-0 at the break.&nbsp; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26407","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\/26407","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}