{"id":13643,"date":"2012-08-19T02:57:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T00:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/rugby-knee-surgery-for-south-africa-hooker-du-plessis\/"},"modified":"2012-08-19T02:57:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T00:57:29","slug":"rugby-knee-surgery-for-south-africa-hooker-du-plessis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-knee-surgery-for-south-africa-hooker-du-plessis\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Knee surgery for South Africa hooker Du Plessis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">CAPE TOWN<\/span> Aug 18 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa hooker Bismarck<br \/>\ndu Plessis will be out for several months after damaging the<br \/>\ncruciate ligaments in his right knee during Saturday&#8217;s 27-6 win<br \/>\nover Argentina in the inaugural Rugby Championship.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The South African Rugby Union (SARU) said the 28-year-old<br \/>\nhooker, a veteran of 46 tests, would need surgery.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The selectors have added two uncapped hookers, Tiaan<br \/>\nLiebenberg and Craig Burden, plus lock Juandre Kruger, prop Dean<br \/>\nGreyling and scrumhalf Jano Vermaak to their squad for the game<br \/>\nagainst Argentina in Mendoza on Aug. 25.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Squad:<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Forwards &#8211; Willem Alberts, Andries Bekker, Craig Burden, Pat<br \/>\nCilliers, Marcell Coetzee, Keegan Daniel, Jannie du Plessis,<br \/>\nEben Etzebeth, Dean Greyling, Juandre Kruger, Tiaan Liebenberg,<br \/>\nTendai Mtawarira, Jacques Potgieter, Adriaan Strauss, Flip van<br \/>\nder Merwe<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Backs &#8211; Jean de Villiers (captain), JJ Engelbrecht, Bryan<br \/>\nHabana, Francois Hougaard, Zane Kirchner, Patrick Lambie, Lwazi<br \/>\nMvovo, Ruan Pienaar, Frans Steyn, Morne Steyn, Jano Vermaak.<\/p>\n<p> (Writing by Jason Humphries in Durban editing by Tony Jimenez)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN Aug 18 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa hooker Bismarck du Plessis will be out for several months after damaging the cruciate ligaments in his right knee during Saturday&#8217;s 27-6 win over Argentina in the inaugural Rugby Championship. The South African Rugby Union (SARU) said the 28-year-old hooker, a veteran of 46 tests, would need [&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-13643","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\/13643","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=13643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}