{"id":15001,"date":"2025-11-11T08:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T06:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/springboks-wont-underestimate-italy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:23","slug":"springboks-wont-underestimate-italy","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/springboks-wont-underestimate-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Springboks won\u2019t underestimate Italy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Springbok Assistant Coach Tony Brown says South Africa will not underestimate Italy when the two sides meet at the Allianz Stadium in Turin on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Brown praised Italy\u2019s recent form, noting their 26-19 victory over Australia last weekend as proof of the team\u2019s growing strength.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u201cThe whole team today has moved on to Italy. If you&#8217;ve watched Italy play Australia, you know that they&#8217;re going to be a tough team, a tough challenge for us. They are very passionate at home, much like the French, so we&#8217;ve got to make sure we prepare as well as we can and tick every box like we did against France,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The Springboks, who extended their lead over New Zealand in the world rankings, are expecting a fierce contest as they face the tenth-ranked Azzurri in front of their home fans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13973,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-15001","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Brown praised Italy\u2019s recent form noting their 26-19 victory over Australia.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Brown praised Italy\u2019s recent form noting their 26-19 victory over Australia.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15001","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\/15001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19423,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15001\/revisions\/19423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=15001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}