{"id":10783,"date":"2012-05-28T22:13:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T20:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/rugby-south-africas-steyn-rejoins-sharks\/"},"modified":"2012-05-28T22:13:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T20:13:29","slug":"rugby-south-africas-steyn-rejoins-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-south-africas-steyn-rejoins-sharks\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-South Africa&#8217;s Steyn rejoins Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">DURBAN<\/span> May 28 (Reuters) &#8211; Francois Steyn, the Springbok<br \/>\nutility back, has signed a three-year contract with the Sharks,<br \/>\nthe South African franchise said on Monday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Steyn, who has played at flyhalf, fullback,<br \/>\ncentre and wing in accumulating 47 test caps, has spent the last<br \/>\ntwo-and-a-half years with French club Racing Metro 92.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But he will officially join up with the Durban-based Sharks<br \/>\nfrom July 1 as he resumes his career with the team for whom he<br \/>\nmade his professional debut in 2006.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Steyn, who made his South Africa but aged 19, will be<br \/>\navailable for the three-test home series against England which<br \/>\nstarts on June 2 in Durban.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Jason Humphries, editing by Ed Osmond)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DURBAN May 28 (Reuters) &#8211; Francois Steyn, the Springbok utility back, has signed a three-year contract with the Sharks, the South African franchise said on Monday. The 25-year-old Steyn, who has played at flyhalf, fullback, centre and wing in accumulating 47 test caps, has spent the last two-and-a-half years with French club Racing Metro 92. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}