{"id":517659,"date":"2026-06-30T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/517659\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T05:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:00:13","slug":"kolbe-and-willemse-strike-50-in-nations-championship-opener-against-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/517659\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolbe and Willemse strike 50 in Nations Championship opener against England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>29 Jun 2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Kolbe and Willemse strike 50 in Nations Championship opener against England\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"ArticleHero_image__RqLNq\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782795612_61_image.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Springboks<\/p>\n<p>Springbok backs Cheslin Kolbe and Damian Willemse will mark the opening Test of the season against England in the inaugural Nations Championship competition by celebrating their 50th Test caps eight years after making their international debuts in an experienced team named by Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus.<a class=\"Shop_btnYellow__EsqCB\" href=\"\"\/><a class=\"Shop_btnDark__98lz6\" href=\"\"\/><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/_next\/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Ficons%2Farrow-left.svg&amp;w=96&amp;q=75\"\/><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/_next\/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Ficons%2Farrow-right.svg&amp;w=96&amp;q=75\"\/><img alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/_next\/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Fvectors%2FVector1.svg&amp;w=3840&amp;q=75\"\/><img alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/_next\/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Fvectors%2FVector2.svg&amp;w=3840&amp;q=75\"\/><img alt=\"Springboks\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"294\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"Newsletter_logo__0QikA\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/_next\/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fimages%2FSpringboks-logo.svg&amp;w=750&amp;q=75\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"saru-logo\" width=\"220\" height=\"185\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"footer-logo\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/_next\/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Flogo.svg&amp;w=640&amp;q=75\"\/><\/a>\u00a9 2026 SOUTH AFRICAN RUGBY \u00a0|\u00a0 PICTURES \u00a9 GALLO IMAGESBack to Top<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"29 Jun 2026 Springboks Springbok backs Cheslin Kolbe and Damian Willemse will mark the opening Test of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-517659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}