{"id":454177,"date":"2023-08-08T11:25:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T15:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=454177"},"modified":"2023-08-08T11:25:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T15:25:52","slug":"pollard-and-am-left-out-of-springboks-world-cup-squad-due-to-injury","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pollard-and-am-left-out-of-springboks-world-cup-squad-due-to-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollard and Am left out of Springboks World Cup squad due to injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Handre Pollard and Lukhanyo Am have missed out on the 33-man Rugby World Cup due to injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nine players have been named on a standby list, including Handre Pollard, Lukhanyo Am, and Lood de Jager \u26a0\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tyi7KbGkOc\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/tyi7KbGkOc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SuperSport Rugby (@SSRugby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SSRugby\/status\/1688908345170915330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was one of the hardest selections we have ever had to make,&#8221; said Springboks head coach Jacques Nienaber.<\/p>\n<p>Both players had a key role in last World Cup&#8217;s win, as they both featured in the final against England.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Sili Kolisi, however, has been selected despite suffering a heavy injury (a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee) and hasn&#8217;t played a game since April.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any of the 42-man training squad would do a great job, but injuries have played a part in the final selection and time unfortunately ran out for some real champions,&#8221; emphasized Nienaber.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa begin their title defense against Scotland on September 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Handre Pollard and Lukhanyo Am have missed out on the 33-man Rugby World Cup due to injury. Nine players have been named on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":454178,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[20810],"gn_keywords":[20844,20845],"acf":{"announce":"The duo will miss out on the upcoming World Cup ","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/454177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/454177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454177"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=454177"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=454177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}