{"id":20776,"date":"2024-06-19T19:03:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T19:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=20776"},"modified":"2024-06-19T19:04:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T19:04:17","slug":"guyana-rugby-team-prepares-for-trinidad-and-tobago-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyana-rugby-team-prepares-for-trinidad-and-tobago-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana Rugby Team Prepares for Trinidad and Tobago Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>By Travis Seymour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guyana&#8217;s national rugby team, the Green Machine, is gearing up to face Trinidad and Tobago in an upcoming home game of the Rugby America\u2019s North 15\u2019s event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match will take place on Saturday, June 22nd, at the Guyana Defence Force ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lawrence Adonis, the head coach, expressed confidence in the team&#8217;s readiness to defend their home ground. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized their preparedness to secure a victory in the upcoming game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adonis highlighted the team&#8217;s youthful energy as a positive factor. Jamal Angus, the team captain, echoed this sentiment, praising the talent within the squad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He specifically mentioned Tyrese Samuels, one of the six overseas-based players, as someone expected to make an immediate impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Angus expressed optimism about the team&#8217;s potential and looked forward to the support of their fans on game day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ansa McAL is the major sponsor for this international game, with additional support from Robert Fernandes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This match against Trinidad and Tobago marks the return leg of the Green Machine\u2019s Rugby America&#8217;s North 15\u2019s championship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In their previous encounter in April, Guyana secured a narrow victory of 24-23 against Trinidad and Tobago at the Hasley Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match kicks off at 3:00 PM local time and will be live-streamed on NCN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Travis Seymour Guyana&#8217;s national rugby team, the Green Machine, is gearing up to face Trinidad and Tobago in an upcoming home game of the Rugby America\u2019s North 15\u2019s event.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20778,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20776\/revisions\/20778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}