{"id":9955,"date":"2012-04-16T04:16:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T02:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/rugby-erasmus-named-south-africas-high-performance-manager\/"},"modified":"2012-04-16T04:16:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T02:16:42","slug":"rugby-erasmus-named-south-africas-high-performance-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-erasmus-named-south-africas-high-performance-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Erasmus named South Africa&#8217;s high performance manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">PRETORIA, South Africa, April 15<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Johan &#8216;Rassie&#8217;<br \/>\nErasmus, the former Springbok loose forward, was named as South<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s general manager of high performance teams by the South<br \/>\nAfrican Rugby Union (SARU) on Sunday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Erasmus, who played in 36 tests for his country, will be<br \/>\ninvolved in all South Africa&#8217;s national teams.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will be tasked to create a blueprint for South African<br \/>\nrugby that can be implemented from junior to senior level, for<br \/>\nour men&#8217;s, women&#8217;s and sevens&#8217; teams,&#8221; SARU chief executive<br \/>\nJurie Rous said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Erasmus, 39, a coach at Currie Cup and Super Rugby level,<br \/>\nwas the Springboks&#8217; technical analyst during the 2011 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa will be in action for the first time this<br \/>\nseason when they host England in three-test series in June.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Editing by Dave Thompson)<\/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>PRETORIA, South Africa, April 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Johan &#8216;Rassie&#8217; Erasmus, the former Springbok loose forward, was named as South Africa&#8217;s general manager of high performance teams by the South African Rugby Union (SARU) on Sunday. Erasmus, who played in 36 tests for his country, will be involved in all South Africa&#8217;s national teams. &#8220;He will [&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-9955","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\/9955","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=9955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}