{"id":9419,"date":"2021-02-13T14:24:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T14:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/bafana-nhleko-and-sandile-ngcobo-promoted-to-head-coach-roles\/"},"modified":"2021-02-13T14:24:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T14:24:23","slug":"bafana-nhleko-and-sandile-ngcobo-promoted-to-head-coach-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=9419","title":{"rendered":"Bafana Nhleko and Sandile Ngcobo promoted to head coach roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-9211\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/NewsBafanaNhleko.jpg\" alt=\"NewsBafanaNhleko\" width=\"380\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/NewsBafanaNhleko.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/NewsBafanaNhleko-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/NewsBafanaNhleko-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><span>SA Rugby has rejigged coaching roles in the Rugby Department \u2013 in Sevens and Junior Rugby \u2013 the governing body confirmed on Saturday.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Two staff members have been promoted into new roles after serving in assistant capacities, with Bafana Nhleko moving into the head coach position of the Junior Springboks, while former Blitzboks player Sandile Ngcobo is now the new head coach of the SA Rugby Sevens Academy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe\u2019re committed to ensuring there is a development pipeline for our coaches and with Bafana and Sandile, we\u2019ve accomplished that as both have been in our systems for some time,\u201d said Rassie Erasmus, South Africa\u2019s Director of Rugby.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cBafana first joined the Junior Springbok coaching structures as an assistant coach in 2018 and he will now take over the reins from Chean Roux, who will remain involved with our Under-20 Academy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cSandile, who played for the Blitzboks when they won back-to-back HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series titles in 2017 and 2018, has been assisting Marius Schoeman since he hung up his boots, and with Marius now basically overseeing our sevens programme, it made sense to promote Sandile into the role of head coach.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nhleko was excited about the prospects of taking over as Junior Springbok head coach, even though the World Rugby U20 Championships have been canceled for 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cYes, it\u2019s disappointing that we won\u2019t have a World Champs this year, but age-group rugby is a different beast and I\u2019m very excited to get stuck in as soon as possible,\u201d said Nhleko.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI really enjoy the challenges and pleasures of working with the youngsters, especially in South Africa where we have a rich heritage of wonderful junior players.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Honing his coaching skills in the familiar environment of the sevens programme is paramount for Ngcobo: \u201cI see this as a great opportunity to grow as a coach, to keep on working with experienced people such as Neil Powell, Renfred Dazel, and Marius, and to help ensure our pipeline of untapped talent providing players for the Blitzboks runs smoothly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Issued by SA Rugby Communications<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SA Rugby has rejigged coaching roles in the Rugby Department \u2013 in Sevens and Junior Rugby \u2013 the governing body confirmed on Saturday. Two staff members have been promoted into new roles after serving in assistant capacities, with Bafana Nhleko moving into the head coach position of the Junior Springboks, while former Blitzboks player Sandile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9419","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\/9419","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=9419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}