{"id":8375,"date":"2018-08-06T15:58:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T15:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/alberts-and-manyike-to-lead-sa-schools-side\/"},"modified":"2018-08-06T15:58:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T15:58:10","slug":"alberts-and-manyike-to-lead-sa-schools-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=8375","title":{"rendered":"Alberts and Manyike to lead SA Schools side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-8374\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/NewsGSASchoolsCap.jpg\" alt=\"NewsGSASchoolsCap\" width=\"422\" height=\"269\" \/>Adrian Alberts and Muzi Manyike have been named as captain and vice-captain of the SA Schools side for the forthcoming Aon Under-18 International Series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Alberts, of Paarl Boys\u2019 High, captained the unbeaten DHL Western Province side at the recent Coca-Cola Under-18 Craven Week in Paarl. He plays lock and in his second season with the SA Schools side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Manyike (centre) is head boy of Jeppe Boys\u2019 High in Johannesburg and represented the Bidvest Walton Golden Lions at the Coca-Cola Under-18 Craven Week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cAdrian and Muzi both bring leadership experience to the squad and I\u2019m excited to see what they bring to our team in the coming weeks,\u201d said Sean Erasmus, coach of the SA Schools side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a tough series against Wales, England and France, and these two players, with the support of the other leaders in the squad, will have a big task at hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cBut they\u2019ve already taken the responsibility since we got together over the weekend and the excitement in the squad is palpable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The SA Schools team will get their Aon Under-18 International Series underway on Friday, 10 August, at Boland Landbou near Paarl, against Wales. England face France on the same day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The second match is against France at Stellenberg High School in Durbanville on Tuesday, 14 August, when Wales and England will square off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The series concludes on Saturday, 18 August at SACS in Newlands, when the SA Schools side face England, while France and Wales will face each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe three teams from Europe are very strong and we\u2019re in for a tough series, but I\u2019m positive and excited to see what we can do on the pitch,\u201d said Erasmus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Issued by SA Rugby Communications<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Alberts and Muzi Manyike have been named as captain and vice-captain of the SA Schools side for the forthcoming Aon Under-18 International Series. Alberts, of Paarl Boys\u2019 High, captained the unbeaten DHL Western Province side at the recent Coca-Cola Under-18 Craven Week in Paarl. He plays lock and in his second season with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8375","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\/8375","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=8375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}