{"id":8357,"date":"2018-07-22T08:49:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T08:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/triumphant-sa-u18-sevens-book-youth-olympics-spot\/"},"modified":"2018-07-22T08:49:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T08:49:24","slug":"triumphant-sa-u18-sevens-book-youth-olympics-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=8357","title":{"rendered":"Triumphant SA U18 Sevens book Youth Olympics spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-8356\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/SA_U18_Sevens.jpg\" alt=\"SA U18 Sevens\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>The South African U18 Sevens booked their place in the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Argentina in October after defeating Namibia 32-12 in the final of the African Youth Games in Algeria on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The victory ensured that they advanced through the three-day tournament unbeaten, conceding only 17 points in their six matches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The team, guided by coach Marius Schoeman, got their campaign off to a flying start on Thursday, as they registered a comprehensive 38-0 victory against Burkina Faso in their opening match thanks to a solid display on attack and defence, and they built on this to defeat hosts, Algeria, 31-5.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They continued their fine form on Friday, as they thumped Tunisia 36-0 and Senegal 45-0 to book their place in the semi-finals against Mauritius.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Schoeman\u2019s charges made easy work the match as they cruised to a 46-0 victory for final berth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Namibia fought hard in the final, but this was not enough to topple the in-form SA U18 Sevens, who sealed the 32-12 win and their place in the Youth Olympics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Schoeman was delighted with the team\u2019s performance and said: \u201cThe players did incredibly well to win 46-0 in the semi-final. They final against Namibia was very physical, but we managed to win 32-12 in the end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe are obviously very happy because this also means that we qualify for the Youth Olympics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThese performances show that we have a lot of young talent in Sevens. The result is also great for South African rugby,\u201d said Schoeman.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>SA U18 Sevens results at the African Youth Games:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Thursday, 19 July:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SA 38-0 Burkina Faso<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SA 31-5 Algeria<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Friday, 20 July:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SA 36-0 Tunisia<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SA 45-0 Senegal<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Saturday, 21 July:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SA 46-0 Mauritius (Semi-final)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SA 32-12 Namibia (Final)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Issued by SA Rugby Communications<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African U18 Sevens booked their place in the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Argentina in October after defeating Namibia 32-12 in the final of the African Youth Games in Algeria on Saturday. The victory ensured that they advanced through the three-day tournament unbeaten, conceding only 17 points in their six matches. The team, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8357","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\/8357","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=8357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}