{"id":21062,"date":"2013-07-11T11:39:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T09:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/habana-says-goodbye-to-stormers\/"},"modified":"2013-07-11T11:39:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T09:39:25","slug":"habana-says-goodbye-to-stormers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/habana-says-goodbye-to-stormers\/","title":{"rendered":"Habana says goodbye to Stormers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Bryan_Habana.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[8584]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"rugbyman Brian habana\" alt=\"rugbyman Brian habana\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/d820f_300px-Bryan_Habana.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"466\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rugbyman Brian Habana. Photo: Wikipedia<\/p>\n<p>Record-breaking <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/that-familiar-sinking-springbok-feeling\/\" target=\"_blank\">Springbok<\/a> wing, <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/bryan-habana-wins-irpa-try-of-the-year-award\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bryan Habana<\/a>, will make his final appearance for the <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/kings-doubting-their-game-against-sharks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stormers<\/a> in the big north-south derby against the <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/southern-kings-go-down-in-bulls-stampede\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bulls<\/a> at Newlands on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Then, just a week later, he boards a plane to Toulon in France \u2013 where he will make his first appearance in a warm-up game against Racing Metro on August 2.<\/p>\n<p>However, Habana hopes to return a fortnight later to feature for South Africa in the historic rugby and soccer double header at Soccer City in Soweto \u2013 the opening round of the Rugby Championship \u2013 when SA face Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>While Habana admitted that his departure to France means he is no longer a \u2018first-choice\u2019 option for Bok coach <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/new-captain-for-springboks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heyneke Meyer<\/a>, he hopes to get a \u2018come back soon\u2019 call from the Bok mentor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is one negotiable I made sure the guys over there [at Toulon] put in my contract,\u201d he said, when asked if he was still available for selection for the national team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will never give up on South African rugby,\u201d Habana said, adding: \u201cThat Springbok jersey means so much to me. I\u2019ve seen how it can bring people together and how it can lift a whole nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully I can continue, in a way, to play my part if the coach deems me fit and good enough to be selected in that Green and Gold team.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/sport.iafrica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">iafricaSport<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/d820f_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rugbyman Brian Habana. Photo: Wikipedia Record-breaking Springbok wing, Bryan Habana, will make his final appearance for the Stormers in the big north-south derby against the Bulls at Newlands on Saturday. Then, just a week later, he boards a plane to Toulon in France \u2013 where he will make his first appearance in a warm-up game [&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":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-21062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","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\/21062","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=21062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}