{"id":101563,"date":"2015-10-02T13:58:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T11:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/101563\/du-preez-expects-big-performance-from-boks\/"},"modified":"2019-05-20T13:00:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T11:00:23","slug":"du-preez-expects-big-performance-from-boks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2015\/10\/02\/du-preez-expects-big-performance-from-boks\/","title":{"rendered":"Du Preez expects big performance from Boks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Malcolm Maifala, Alberton Record<\/h6>\n<p>Newly elected Springbok captain, Fourie du Preez, the SA Rugby Player of the Year in 2006 and 2009, was named to captain the Springboks at St James\u2019 Park on Saturday in this crucial Pool B match against a resurgent Scotland side.<\/p>\n<p>The Scots won their first two Rugby World Cup matches by big margins against Japan and the USA respectively and currently top the pool. The Springboks are second following their defeat against Japan and comprehensive victory over Samoa.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe were really with our backs against the wall last week and the match against Samoa was probably one of the most pressured games I\u2019ve ever been involved in,\u201d said Du Preez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut every member of the squad stood up and we got a good win against Samoa. However, that hasn\u2019t changed the position we\u2019re in this week and I\u2019m expecting the same of every guy, to put in the same performance as we did last week.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/hndOsJsaBw0' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Du Preez, who made his Test debut against Ireland in Bloemfontein in 2004, was humbled when he was named to be South Africa\u2019s 56th Springbok captain on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not one for many words so I\u2019ll lead from the front on Saturday,\u201d said Du Preez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuckily we have guys such as Schalk Burger and Duane Vermeulen to back me up, as well as a lot of experience across the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really grateful for this opportunity. A few months ago I thought my rugby career was over, and a few weeks ago I didn\u2019t think I was even going to be here in England today. But life sometimes takes funny turns so to sit here as captain is unbelievable for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='a6c506c61e1677550136a42f6948aec1'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Springbok captain Fourie du Preez implored his team to keep building momentum from their victory over Samoa last weekend when they face Scotland in Newcastle on Saturday October 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5696,"featured_media":101566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":".","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8628,1122,7566,8510,1767],"class_list":["post-101563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-fourie-du-preez","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-world-cup","tag-rwc","tag-springboks"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["fourie du preez","rugby","Rugby World Cup","RWC","springboks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5696"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}