{"id":310405,"date":"2026-03-03T04:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T04:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/310405\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T04:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T04:28:08","slug":"all-black-sevens-coach-left-off-plane-to-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/310405\/","title":{"rendered":"All Black Sevens coach left off plane to North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4ODD2KX_tc_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"Tomasi Cama the New Zealand All Black Sevens.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nTomasi Cama the New Zealand All Black Sevens.<br \/>\nPhoto: PHOTOSPORT\n<\/p>\n<p>The All Black Sevens side will head to the New York and Vancouver legs of the World Sevens Series without head coach Tomasi Cama.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand Rugby confirmed on Tuesday that Cama will not fly out with the team who depart today due to visa issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team were advised his visa application could not be processed in time to travel with the team, who fly out of New Zealand today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cama was appointed head coach of the All Black Sevens in August 2023 after a storied career on the field.<\/p>\n<p>He played 128 tournaments for New Zealand, winning the World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year Award in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>NZR said assistant coach Willie Rickards will take on the head coach duties for the two tournaments with Scott Curry as his assistant.<\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver tournament runs from 7-8 March followed by New York from 14-15 March.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tomasi Cama the New Zealand All Black Sevens. Photo: PHOTOSPORT The All Black Sevens side will head to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-310405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}