{"id":338352,"date":"2025-12-10T01:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338352\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T01:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:11:07","slug":"tuwai-hails-nadi-junior-rugby-festival-fbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338352\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuwai hails Nadi junior rugby festival \u2013 FBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jerry-Tuwai.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Former Fiji 7s captain and Olympic gold medalist Jerry Tuwai has praised the Nadi Junior Rugby Festival, calling it one of the best development platforms in the region as the two-day event wraps up today.<\/p>\n<p>The festival features teams from Fiji, Tuvalu and Nauru across the under-8to under-18 grades, providing hundreds of young players with their first exposure to structured competition and international participation.<\/p>\n<p>Tuwai says the impact of the tournament goes far beyond the matches played.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that World Rugby, Oceania Rugby, Fiji Rugby and all the unions that take part here\u2026 this is one of the best rugby festivals that we have right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that the festival\u2019s true strength lies in the rugby values it teaches\u2014 values he believes shape futures both on and off the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just about rugby, it\u2019s about sharing the values of rugby heretoday. This is where dreams are moulded. I started with small kitesand everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tuwai also highlighted the festival\u2019s broader regional importance, saying the growing involvement of Pacific neighbors will lift standards across Oceania.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Oceania Rugby is doing right now will help not just Fiji Rugbybut all the unions here today like Nauru, Tuvalu and clubs here in Fiji.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Nadi Junior Rugby Festival concludes this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"viti-plus-link-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.viti.plus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stream the best of Fiji on VITI+.  Anytime.  Anywhere.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Fiji 7s captain and Olympic gold medalist Jerry Tuwai has praised the Nadi Junior Rugby Festival, calling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-338352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}