{"id":13805,"date":"2012-08-23T03:05:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T01:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/rugby-argentina-lose-flyhalf-hernandez-for-home-springboks-clash\/"},"modified":"2012-08-23T03:05:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T01:05:51","slug":"rugby-argentina-lose-flyhalf-hernandez-for-home-springboks-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-argentina-lose-flyhalf-hernandez-for-home-springboks-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Argentina lose flyhalf Hernandez for home Springboks clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">BUENOS AIRES<\/span> Aug 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Pumas flyhalf Juan Martin<br \/>\nHernandez will miss Saturday&#8217;s Rugby Championship home match<br \/>\nagainst South Africa with a torn leg muscle, the Argentine Rugby<br \/>\nUnion (UAR) said on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hernandez, who kicked two penalties in Argentina&#8217;s 27-6<br \/>\ndefeat by the Springboks in their tournament debut last weekend,<br \/>\nsuffered the injury near the end of an intense training session<br \/>\nin Buenos Aires on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Argentina, playing in the southern hemisphere&#8217;s elite<br \/>\nchampionship for the first time, host South Africa at the<br \/>\nMalvinas Argentinas stadium in the Andean city of Mendoza in the<br \/>\nwest of the country (1910 GMT).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The loss of the injury-plagued former Natal Sharks flyhalf<br \/>\nHernandez is a blow to Pumas coach Santiago Phelan. He had named<br \/>\na team with just one change from the opening match at Newlands<br \/>\nin Cape Town, bringing in Martin Rodriguez at fullback in place<br \/>\nof Lucas Gonzalez Amorosino.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Phelan will announce a replacement for Hernandez after<br \/>\nThursday&#8217;s training run in Mendoza.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nicolas Sanchez is a reserve flyhalf but Phelan my opt to<br \/>\nreshuffle his back line with the more experienced Santiago<br \/>\nFernandez standing in for Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Rex Gowar, 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>BUENOS AIRES Aug 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Pumas flyhalf Juan Martin Hernandez will miss Saturday&#8217;s Rugby Championship home match against South Africa with a torn leg muscle, the Argentine Rugby Union (UAR) said on Wednesday. Hernandez, who kicked two penalties in Argentina&#8217;s 27-6 defeat by the Springboks in their tournament debut last weekend, suffered the injury [&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-13805","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\/13805","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=13805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}