{"id":11291,"date":"2012-06-09T23:06:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T21:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/rugby-south-africa-make-winning-start-under-new-coach-meyer\/"},"modified":"2012-06-09T23:06:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T21:06:05","slug":"rugby-south-africa-make-winning-start-under-new-coach-meyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-south-africa-make-winning-start-under-new-coach-meyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-South Africa make winning start under new coach Meyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">DURBAN, June 9<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa gave a winning start<br \/>\nto new coach Heyneke Meyer with a 22-17 victory over England in<br \/>\nthe first test in Durban on Saturday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Springboks turned in a dominant second-half performance<br \/>\nwith flyhalf Morne Steyn and new captain Jean De Villiers<br \/>\ncrossing for tries after Steyn and his opposite Owen Farrell had<br \/>\ntraded penalties to send the teams into the break locked at 6-6.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa took control of the match after the resumption<br \/>\nand, while winger Ben Foden scored a consolation try for England<br \/>\nwith time up on the clock, the final result was never in doubt.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The victory was South Africa&#8217;s eighth successive over<br \/>\nEngland and gave the hosts a 1-0 lead in the three-test series.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The second test is scheduled for Johannesburg next weekend.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jason Humphries; Editing by Tom Bartlett)<\/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, June 9 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa gave a winning start to new coach Heyneke Meyer with a 22-17 victory over England in the first test in Durban on Saturday. The Springboks turned in a dominant second-half performance with flyhalf Morne Steyn and new captain Jean De Villiers crossing for tries after Steyn and his [&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-11291","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\/11291","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=11291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}