{"id":396435,"date":"2026-04-25T03:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396435\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T03:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:24:08","slug":"tuwai-named-as-fiji-7s-assistant-coach-fbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396435\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuwai named as Fiji 7s assistant coach \u2013 FBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Untitled-design-9.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Olympic gold medalist Jerry Tuwai has been appointed as the new assistant coach of the Fiji Airways Men\u2019s Sevens team. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made this afternoon at the Fiji Rugby Union headquarters in Suva. <\/p>\n<p>According to Fiji Rugby chief executive Koli Sewabu, Tuwai recently completed a high-performance coaching course and was among several applicants who applied for the position. <\/p>\n<p>Tuwai, affectionately known as \u201cThe Magician\u201d by rugby enthusiasts, expressed his gratitude to Fiji Rugby for placing their trust in him and allowing him to join the coaching staff. <\/p>\n<p>Article continues after advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Sewabu added that the union is confident Tuwai will work effectively alongside his former teammate and current head coach, Osea Kolinisau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olympic gold medalist Jerry Tuwai has been appointed as the new assistant coach of the Fiji Airways Men\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-396435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396435","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=396435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}