{"id":14058,"date":"2012-08-30T15:27:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T13:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/soccer-peterborough-defender-ntlhe-gets-south-africa-call\/"},"modified":"2012-08-30T15:27:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T13:27:36","slug":"soccer-peterborough-defender-ntlhe-gets-south-africa-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/soccer-peterborough-defender-ntlhe-gets-south-africa-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Peterborough defender Ntlhe gets South Africa call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Aug 30 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa have included<br \/>\ninexperienced 18-year-old full-back Kgosi Ntlhe from<br \/>\nPeterborough United in their squad for next month&#8217;s friendly<br \/>\nagainst Brazil.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ntlhe, who only made his full debut in the English<br \/>\nChampionship (second division) earlier this month, is one of<br \/>\nfour uncapped players for the friendly in Sao Paulo on Sept. 7<br \/>\nas well as a home match against Mozambique in Nelspruit four<br \/>\ndays later.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa coach Gordon Igesund, who took over in June,<br \/>\nalso handed a first call-up for former Chelsea apprentice Dean<br \/>\nFurman, now at Oldham Athletic in England&#8217;s League One (third<br \/>\ntier).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Igesund said he wanted to give new players an opportunity as<br \/>\nSouth Africa prepare to host the African Nations Cup finals in<br \/>\nJanuary. The team have seven scheduled friendlies before the<br \/>\ntournament kicks off on Jan. 19.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Mark Gleeson in Cape Town; Editing by Alison<br \/>\nWildey)<\/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>JOHANNESBURG Aug 30 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa have included inexperienced 18-year-old full-back Kgosi Ntlhe from Peterborough United in their squad for next month&#8217;s friendly against Brazil. Ntlhe, who only made his full debut in the English Championship (second division) earlier this month, is one of four uncapped players for the friendly in Sao Paulo on [&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-14058","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\/14058","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=14058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}