{"id":8822,"date":"2019-05-29T08:12:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T08:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/buthelezi-time-for-the-junior-springboks-to-express-themselves\/"},"modified":"2019-05-29T08:12:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T08:12:21","slug":"buthelezi-time-for-the-junior-springboks-to-express-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=8822","title":{"rendered":"Buthelezi: Time for the Junior Springboks to express themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-8736\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/NewsGPepsiButhelezi.jpg\" alt=\"NewsGPepsiButhelezi\" width=\"380\" height=\"253\" \/>Junior Springbok captain Phendulani Buthelezi said on Wednesday they are ready to go out and express themselves at World Rugby U20 Championship in Argentina as the team began the journey to the international showpiece.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Buthelezi and his charges departed for Rosario via Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires, and the skipper said they were excited for the trip.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The SAU20\u2019s &#8211; who won the bronze medal in the showpiece in the south of France last year &#8211; will face Scotland, Georgia and New Zealand in the pool stages of the tournament on 4, 8 and 12 June respectively. The semi-finals will be contested on Monday, 17 June, and the final on Saturday, 22 June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cEveryone is very excited for the World Rugby U20 Championship,\u201d said Buthelezi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe worked extremely hard in South Africa, and we are now ready to get on the plane and get going over there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe are aware of the long journey ahead, but the players have been exposed to the challenges of travelling before on our tour to the UK. We have also been working with our team doctor regarding the time difference, so the guys are aware of the travel strategy, and we are very excited for what lies ahead.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Following months of preparations, five warm-up matches (in the U20 International Series and on their warm-up tour to the UK), and a holding camp in the last few weeks, Buthelezi said his charges were ready to take to the field.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe prepared really well in what has been a tough four months on the training field, and we have done everything we can as players as far as our preparation is concerned,\u201d said the talented flanker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cSo it is now a matter of going out there, expressing ourselves and trying to make the country proud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cOur game plan is in place for our opening game against Scotland, and when we get to Argentina we will fine-tune things, and hopefully we can hit the ground running in our first game and give it our best effort.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Issued by SA Rugby Communications<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[powr-comments id=&#8221;7b241830_1559117529434&#8243;]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Junior Springbok captain Phendulani Buthelezi said on Wednesday they are ready to go out and express themselves at World Rugby U20 Championship in Argentina as the team began the journey to the international showpiece. Buthelezi and his charges departed for Rosario via Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires, and the skipper said they were excited for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8822","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\/8822","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=8822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}