{"id":9297,"date":"2012-03-25T15:28:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T13:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/rugby-england-2015-world-cup-qualifiers-start-with-mexico-win\/"},"modified":"2012-03-25T15:28:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T13:28:40","slug":"rugby-england-2015-world-cup-qualifiers-start-with-mexico-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-england-2015-world-cup-qualifiers-start-with-mexico-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-England 2015 World Cup qualifiers start with Mexico win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">MEXICO CITY, March 24<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; The long qualifying road<br \/>\nto the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England got underway on Saturday<br \/>\nwith Mexico&#8217;s nine-try, 68-14 win over Jamaica.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The match, played in front of a Mexican record crowd of<br \/>\n2,000 at the Iberian-American University on the western<br \/>\noutskirts of the capital, is part of the Caribbean championship<br \/>\nand the winners will go on to face South America&#8217;s CONSUR<br \/>\nwinners.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although there can be just one winner, I would like to<br \/>\ncongratulate both teams on playing their full part in an<br \/>\nexceptional start to the Rugby World Cup 2015 qualification<br \/>\nprocess,&#8221; International Rugby Board president Bernard Lapasset<br \/>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The road to England is well and truly underway,&#8221; he said at<br \/>\nthe match, also attended by former 2003 World Cup winner<br \/>\nLawrence Dallaglio as an England 2015 ambassador and where the<br \/>\nWebb Ellis trophy was on display.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The match was refereed by South African Craig Joubert, who<br \/>\nwas in charge of the 2011 World Cup final in which New Zealand<br \/>\nbeat France less than six months ago.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Carlos Calvo; writing by Rex Gowar in Buenos<br \/>\nAires; Editing by Nick Mulvenney)<\/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>MEXICO CITY, March 24 (Reuters) &#8211; The long qualifying road to the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England got underway on Saturday with Mexico&#8217;s nine-try, 68-14 win over Jamaica. The match, played in front of a Mexican record crowd of 2,000 at the Iberian-American University on the western outskirts of the capital, is part of [&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-9297","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\/9297","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=9297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}