{"id":16098,"date":"2012-11-02T20:26:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T18:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/11\/rugby-s-africa-can-shine-on-tour-despite-injuries-says-captain\/"},"modified":"2012-11-02T20:26:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T18:26:36","slug":"rugby-s-africa-can-shine-on-tour-despite-injuries-says-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-s-africa-can-shine-on-tour-despite-injuries-says-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-S.Africa can shine on tour despite injuries, says captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">CAPE TOWN<\/span> Nov 2 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa captain Jean de Villiers believes his team can shrug off a long list of injuries to do well on their three-match European tour later this month.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Springboks take on Ireland on Nov. 10 before facing Scotland seven days later and England on Nov. 24.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have come a long way as a team this year but we are looking to improve and take our game to the next level and win all three matches on tour,&#8221; De Villiers told a news conference in Cape Town on Friday ahead of the squad&#8217;s departure.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a lot of youngsters because we are missing some injured players with a lot of experience. Guys like wing Bryan Habana, loose forwards Pierre Spies and Schalk Burger and hooker Tiaan Liebenberg.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Springboks are not the only team suffering from the loss of key players &#8211; Ireland will be without captain and inspirational centre Brian O&#8217;Driscoll.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have huge respect for Brian, he is a fantastic player and they will miss his leadership,&#8221; said De Villiers.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But Ireland are a quality side. It is never easy playing a test match over there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>De Villiers has been injured himself and had to miss last week&#8217;s Currie Cup final.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m getting better. I&#8217;m not 100 percent yet but if all goes according to plan with the rehabilitation I should be ready for the Ireland match,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN Nov 2 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa captain Jean de Villiers believes his team can shrug off a long list of injuries to do well on their three-match European tour later this month. The Springboks take on Ireland on Nov. 10 before facing Scotland seven days later and England on Nov. 24. &#8220;We have [&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-16098","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\/16098","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=16098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}