{"id":14431,"date":"2012-09-09T16:04:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T14:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/rugby-australias-genia-out-for-six-months-with-knee-injury\/"},"modified":"2012-09-09T16:04:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T14:04:01","slug":"rugby-australias-genia-out-for-six-months-with-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-australias-genia-out-for-six-months-with-knee-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Australia&#8217;s Genia out for six months with knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">Sept 9<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Australia scrumhalf Will Genia succumbed<br \/>\nto the &#8216;captain&#8217;s curse&#8217; when he was ruled out of rugby for six<br \/>\nmonths after he ruptured a knee ligament in the Wallabies&#8217; 26-19<br \/>\nwin over South Africa on Saturday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Genia limped off during the victory, Australia&#8217;s first of<br \/>\nthe Rugby Championship, and he follows regular captain James<br \/>\nHorwill (hamstring) and his initial stand-in David Pocock (knee)<br \/>\non to the sidelines for the rest of the southern hemisphere<br \/>\ncompetition.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old&#8217;s knee was strapped with a large ice pack<br \/>\nand he required crutches to walk after the match in Perth. Scans<br \/>\non Sunday revealed he had ruptured the anterior cruciate<br \/>\nligament, a team spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Local media reported he will be replaced by Brett Sheehan in<br \/>\nthe Wallabies&#8217; squad for their clash with Argentina next week on<br \/>\nthe Gold Coast.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Greg Stutchbury in Wellington; Editing by Ian<br \/>\nRansom)<\/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>Sept 9 (Reuters) &#8211; Australia scrumhalf Will Genia succumbed to the &#8216;captain&#8217;s curse&#8217; when he was ruled out of rugby for six months after he ruptured a knee ligament in the Wallabies&#8217; 26-19 win over South Africa on Saturday. Genia limped off during the victory, Australia&#8217;s first of the Rugby Championship, and he follows regular [&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-14431","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\/14431","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=14431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}