{"id":13283,"date":"2024-02-05T22:59:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T22:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wales-in-talks-to-face-south-africa-at-twickenham-in-summer-warm-up-match\/"},"modified":"2024-02-05T22:59:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T22:59:46","slug":"wales-in-talks-to-face-south-africa-at-twickenham-in-summer-warm-up-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wales-in-talks-to-face-south-africa-at-twickenham-in-summer-warm-up-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales in talks to face South Africa at Twickenham in summer warm-up match"},"content":{"rendered":"


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South Africa beat Wales convincingly in a World Cup warm-up game last August<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wales are in talks to face world champions South Africa at Twickenham in the final week of June.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The game would be a warm-up before Wales’ two-Test series in Australia in July, while the Springboks are hosting Ireland on the same weekends.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

South Africa defeated New Zealand at Twickenham in a World Cup warm-up match in August 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Springboks went on to retain the World Cup by beating the All Blacks in the final in Paris.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wales were comprehensively beaten 52-16 by South Africa in another World Cup warm-up match in Cardiff last August.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Principality Stadium is not available this summer because the match is taking place during the Cardiff concert season, with the Foo Fighters playing at the ground on 25 June.<\/span><\/p>\n

South Africa have confirmed they will play Ireland on 6 July in Pretoria before another Test in Durban seven days later.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wales travel to face Australia on the same dates but the venues of Melbourne and Sydney are yet to be officially confirmed.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Wales and South Africa match in London would be held the weekend after the United Rugby Championship (URC) final.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wales are also exploring the possibility of a fourth summer international in July, which would be staged the weekend after the second Test against Australia. This game would not be against the Wallabies.<\/span><\/p>\n

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South Africa beat Wales convincingly in a World Cup warm-up game last August Wales are in talks to face world champions South Africa at Twickenham in the final week of June. The game would be a warm-up before Wales’ two-Test series in Australia in July, while the Springboks are hosting Ireland on the same weekends. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13285,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13283\/revisions\/13285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}