{"id":118041,"date":"2016-04-12T11:31:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T09:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/118041\/allister-coetzee-is-the-new-springbok-coach\/"},"modified":"2016-04-12T11:31:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T09:31:22","slug":"allister-coetzee-is-the-new-springbok-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/04\/12\/allister-coetzee-is-the-new-springbok-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Allister Coetzee is the new Springbok coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarugby.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">SA Rugby<\/a> president Oregan Hoskins made the announcement in Johannesburg this morning that Allister Coetzee will take over from Heyneke Meyer as Sprinkbok coach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We met on April 1 and it was an unanimous choice of all our stakeholders,&#8221; he said.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Meyer took the team to a third place finish in last year\u2019s Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>During the announcement, Hoskins also re-emphasised that transformation imperatives would form a key part of the new coach&#8217;s mandate.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Coetzee, a former Stormers player and coach, who was also an assistant coach to Jake White during the World Cup in 2007, has a huge task ahead of him. He has to continue the success of the Springboks and transformation quotas will be far stricter for him than his predecessors.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports there will have to be a 50 percent requirement of players of colour in the 31 Springbok 2019 Rugby World Cup squad.<\/p>\n<p>This means atleast 9 of the 15 players would need to be black African.<\/p>\n<p>Following the end of Jake White&#8217;s tenure, Coetzee was one of the four main candidates to take over as head coach but lost out to Peter de Villiers.<\/p>\n<p>Coetzee was instrumental in\u00a0the Springboks&#8217; Tri-Nations triumph in 2004 and their World Cup victory in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>His\u00a0management team will consist of assistants\u00a0Mzwandile Stick and Johann van Graan.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Coetzee talk about his Stormers departure last year:<\/p>\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\/4hvQrL_aeNQ' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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='2004dae9498d35097f7030bccaa51e22'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African Rugby Union (Saru) has announced that Allister Coetzee will take over as the new Springbok coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7783,"featured_media":118042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[10587,10588,1122,2362,3209,10589,10590],"class_list":["post-118041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-allister-coetzee","tag-jake-white","tag-rugby","tag-south-africa","tag-south-african-rugby-union","tag-sprinboks","tag-springbok-coach"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Allister Coetzee","jake white","rugby","South Africa","south african rugby union","Sprinboks","Springbok coach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118041","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\/7783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}