{"id":31365,"date":"2025-09-04T05:51:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/womens-boks-no-fear-at-the-rugby-world-cup-they-want-the-best\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T05:51:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:51:53","slug":"womens-boks-no-fear-at-the-rugby-world-cup-they-want-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/womens-boks-no-fear-at-the-rugby-world-cup-they-want-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Boks: No Fear at the Rugby World Cup \u00a1They Want the Best!"},"content":{"rendered":"The South African women&#8217;s rugby team, despite having their match against France pending in the group stage of the World Cup this weekend, has already secured their place in the quarter-finals. The players have expressed their indifference regarding their opponent at this crucial stage of the tournament.\n\nAfter defeating Brazil and Italy in the group stage, the team has made a historic milestone by qualifying for the knockout stage of a World Cup for the first time. Now, they seek to overcome France, considered statistically superior, on Sunday in Northampton.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We don&#8217;t care who we face in the quarter-finals, as the competition gets tougher as you advance.<\/p><cite>Laurian Johannes-Haupt, assistant coach<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nJohannes-Haupt, assistant coach, commented on the SA Rugby website that the team will face the quarter-finals with enthusiasm, regardless of the result against France.\n\nThe coach also added: &#8220;We want to play against the best, in this case we play against number four (France) and then, a week later, against the number three or five in the world. That&#8217;s what we came for.&#8221;\n\nRegarding the match against France, Johannes-Haupt revealed that tactical and personnel adjustments will be made compared to the team that defeated Italy.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We want to play against them with a specific tactic in mind, so the team will be modified accordingly.<\/p><cite>Laurian Johannes-Haupt, assistant coach<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nFurthermore, the coach stated that, although they will not stray from their direct and physical approach that has proven effective, they will refresh the team after three weeks of touring.\n\nJohannes-Haupt concluded: &#8220;The good thing is that everyone is eager to demonstrate that our performances are consistent and that the great support we receive from home is justified and is a cause for celebration.&#8221;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African women&#8217;s rugby team, despite having their match against France pending in the group stage of the World Cup this weekend, has already secured their place in the quarter-finals. The players have expressed their indifference regarding their opponent at this crucial stage of the tournament. After defeating Brazil and Italy in the group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[684,1966,203,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-31365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-france","9":"tag-quarterfinals","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}