{"id":14092,"date":"2025-10-29T10:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T08:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/zachary-porthen-set-for-springbok-debut-against-japan-at-wembley\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:44","slug":"zachary-porthen-set-for-springbok-debut-against-japan-at-wembley","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/zachary-porthen-set-for-springbok-debut-against-japan-at-wembley\/","title":{"rendered":"Zachary Porthen set for Springbok debut against Japan at Wembley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Former Junior Springbok Captain Zachary Porthen will make his Springbok debut against Japan at Wembley Stadium in London on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Springboks Coach Rassie Erasmus named 16 players in his matchday squad that featured in the team\u2019s 29-27 victory against Argentina in their final Castle Lager Rugby Championship clash.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Kurt-Lee Arendse (wing), Franco Mostert (utility forward), and Lood de Jager (lock) reclaim their places in the starting 15 after missing the last few matches due to injuries and a family bereavement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Siya Kolisi leads the team, and Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu is the starting flyhalf.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14093,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-14092","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Springboks Coach Rassie Erasmus named 16 players in his matchday squad that featured in the team\u2019s 29-27 victory against Argentina.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Springboks Coach Rassie Erasmus named 16 players in his matchday squad that featured in the team\u2019s 29-27 victory against Argentina.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18911,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14092\/revisions\/18911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}