{"id":38783,"date":"2026-07-04T13:48:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T11:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=38783"},"modified":"2026-07-04T13:48:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T11:48:32","slug":"all-blacks-win-nations-championship-opener-against-france","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/all-blacks-win-nations-championship-opener-against-france\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks win Nations Championship opener against France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand have made a winning start in the inaugural Nations Championship. The All Blacks, under new coach Dave Rennie, have beaten Six Nations champions, France, 34-32 in a thriller in Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts, who led 19-13 at halftime, outscored their opponents by five tries to four with wing Will Jordan and scrumhalf Cam Roigard, each scoring a brace.<\/p>\n<p>Rennie took over as All Blacks coach from Scott Robertson four months ago after the once mighty All Blacks produced a string of indifferent results. It included a record 43-10 defeat to South Africa in Wellington last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Springboks open their campaign against England at Ellis Park in Johannesburg later on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16370,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-38783","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The Springboks open their campaign against England at Ellis Park in Johannesburg later on Saturday.","published_date":"","news_description":"The Springboks open their campaign against England at Ellis Park in Johannesburg later on Saturday.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38783","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38785,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38783\/revisions\/38785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=38783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}