{"id":54760,"date":"2024-08-10T15:18:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T13:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=54760"},"modified":"2024-08-10T15:18:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T13:18:25","slug":"revised-fixtures-for-u18-international-series-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=54760","title":{"rendered":"Revised fixtures for u18 International Series in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_51924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51924\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51924\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-07-04-at-16.47.01-1-400x354.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"354\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PIETER VAN DER MERWE, centre of the SA Schools side on his way to his try to help his side down the SA Schools A-side in Krugersdorp. PHOTO: Marius Nortj\u00e9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The French u18 team have decided to withdraw from the U18 International Series following the tragic event earlier this week when one of their players, Medhi Narjissi, was swept out to sea during a recovery session at Cape Point.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The annual u18 series in South Africa will\u00a0start on Monday in Cape Town. The French squad returned home on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The schedule for the series has been revised following the withdrawal of France, with each round consisting of two matches which ensures that none of the remaining travelling teams\u2019 fixtures are affected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first round kicks off at Stellenberg High School in Cape Town on Monday, with the SA U18 clash with France cancelled, while the SA u18 \u2018A\u2019 team\u2019s three matches were reduced to one, against Georgia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Georgia, who were originally scheduled to play the SA U18 \u2018A\u2019-side twice and France once, will now face England in their second match on Friday 16 August, and they will play Ireland on Tuesday, 20 August on the last of the three match days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr Mark Alexander, president of the South African Rugby Union, earlier this week sent a message of condolences to the Narjissi family and the French rugby community following the tragic events a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Revised fixtures for the Under-18 International Series:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Monday, 12 August (Stellenberg HS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">13:30 England vs Ireland<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">15:30 South Africa \u2018A\u2019 vs Georgia<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Friday, 16 August (Paarl Gimnasium):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">13:30: Georgia vs England<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">15:30: South Africa vs Ireland<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Tuesday, 20 August (Paarl Boys\u2019 HS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">13:30 South Africa vs England<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">15:30 Ireland vs Georgia<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Issued by SA Rugby Communications<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French u18 team have decided to withdraw from the U18 International Series following the tragic event earlier this week when one of their players, Medhi Narjissi, was swept out to sea during a recovery session at Cape Point. The annual u18 series in South Africa will\u00a0start on Monday in Cape Town. The French squad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54760","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\/54760","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=54760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}