{"id":592,"date":"2023-10-31T06:29:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T05:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/?p=592"},"modified":"2023-10-31T06:29:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T05:29:04","slug":"south-africa-win-rugby-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/south-africa-win-rugby-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa Win Rugby World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>South Africa have <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"to win against\">beaten<\/a> New Zealand to take the 2023 Rugby World Cup for a record fourth time. With the 12-11 win over the <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"nickname for New Zealand's rugby team\">All Blacks<\/a>, South Africa have successfully <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"here: to win a game that you also won the last time\">defended<\/a> their 2019 title and have become the most successful country in rugby history.  <\/p>\n\n<p>The final at the Stade de France in Paris was a <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"both teams were almost the same\">close game<\/a> even though the <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"nickname for South Africa's rugby team\">Springboks<\/a> had a half-time lead of 12-6. The All Blacks <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"to go through a bad time\">suffered<\/a> a <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"to have a big effect\">decisive<\/a> <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"here: to lose someone\">loss<\/a> in the first half when their captain Sam Cane was <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"had to leave the game\">sent off<\/a> and the team was <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"lowered\">reduced<\/a> to fourteen players.   <\/p>\n\n<p>South Africa reached the finals by <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"with a very small margin\">narrowly<\/a> defeating France and England by one point in the quarter- and semi-finals.<\/p>\n\n<p>The two nations are probably rugby&#8217;s greatest rivals. <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"but\">However<\/a>, they have met in the finals only once &#8211; in 1995 when South Africa won their home tournament. <\/p>\n\n<p>The win for the Springboks has helped <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"to move up\">raise<\/a> the <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"feelings\">spirits<\/a> of the African nation at a <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"worrying\">troubling<\/a> time for a country with many problems &#8211; <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"many people are out of work\">high unemployment<\/a>, <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"when electricity doesn't work\">power blackouts<\/a>, crime and <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"when people behave in a dishonest or immoral way\">corruption<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023_Rugby_World_Cup_\u2013_France_vs_New_Zealand_\u2013_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-601\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2.2222222222222223;width:800px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023_Rugby_World_Cup_\u2013_France_vs_New_Zealand_\u2013_2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023_Rugby_World_Cup_\u2013_France_vs_New_Zealand_\u2013_2-600x270.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023_Rugby_World_Cup_\u2013_France_vs_New_Zealand_\u2013_2-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2023_Rugby_World_Cup_\u2013_France_vs_New_Zealand_\u2013_2-768x346.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Opening match of the 2023 Rugby World Cup between France and New Zealand<\/strong><br><em>Image :<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:2023_Rugby_World_Cup_%E2%80%93_France_vs_New_Zealand_%E2%80%93_2.jpg\">JaumeBG<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\">CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>, <br>via Wikimedia Commons <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa have beaten New Zealand to take the 2023 Rugby World Cup for a record fourth time. With the 12-11 win over the All Blacks, South Africa have successfully defended their 2019 title and have become the most successful country in rugby history. The final at the Stade de France in Paris was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[119,121,118,120],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-sports","tag-rugby","tag-south-africa","tag-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}