{"id":7926,"date":"2015-05-26T15:01:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T14:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/?p=7926"},"modified":"2015-05-26T15:01:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T14:01:13","slug":"world-rugby-u20-championships-to-be-broadcast-to-over-100-countries-tickets-selling-very-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/world-rugby-u20-championships-to-be-broadcast-to-over-100-countries-tickets-selling-very-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"WORLD RUGBY U20 Championships to be broadcast to over 100 countries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TICKETS SELLING VERY FAST!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- STICK HEADLINE HERE --><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table id=\"backgroundTable\" style=\"width: 100%; margin: 0px auto; border: #2a3d83 10px solid;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<h1 style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 28px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; color: #000; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 32px;\">U20 Championship to be broadcast to over 100 countries <!-- HEADLINE ENDS HERE --><\/h1>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><!-- MAIN TEXT MEDIA RELEASE STARTS HERE, DON'T FORGET TO KEEP THE STYLE BITS IN THE TAGS --><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tournament will be available in more than 160 million homes around the globe<\/li>\n<li>Tickets selling well as fans await future stars of world rugby<\/li>\n<li>One week to go until kick-off in ItalyWorld Rugby will broadcast this year\u2019s U20 Championship to more than 100 countries around the globe. As teams arrive in northern Italy for the eighth edition of the tournament, organisers have announced that the event from 2-20 June will be screened to more than 160 million homes.Matches will be played at venues in Parma, Calvisano, and Viadana with the final played in Cremona on 20 June.\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsletter.worldrugby.org:81\/CT00312901MTI4Nzg=.HTML?D=2015-05-26\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT WHERE TO WATCH U20 CHAMPIONSHIP 2015 &gt;&gt; <\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s U20s won the event from 2008-2011 with South Africa winning the event on home soil in 2012. England lifted the coveted trophy in 2013 and 2014 and will be hoping to make it a hat-trick of wins at Stadio Giovanni Zini in Cremona on 20 June this year.<\/p>\n<p>Since its inception in 2008, an impressive total of 343 players have made the step up from the U20 Championship (formerly the Junior World Championship) to win full international honours, with many of them expected to feature prominently at Rugby World Cup 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsletter.worldrugby.org:81\/CT00312902MTI4Nzg=.HTML?D=2015-05-26\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE TO SEE THE U20 CHAMPIONSHIP 2015 POOLS AND FIXTURES &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>World Rugby Chief Executive Brett Gosper said: \u201cThe fact that this year\u2019s U20 Championship will be broadcast to more than 100 countries is testament to how far the tournament has come since it began in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRugby fans are well aware that it has produced some of the best internationals, and that\u2019s been evident with players like Handr\u00e9 Pollard, Julian Savea, George Ford and Sam Warburton emerging from the ranks of the U20s in the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe will to win the U20 Championship is becoming more intense every year and I\u2019ve no doubt that England will face a tough battle to retain their crown in Italy. Some top rugby awaits fans this June,\u201d said Gosper.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U20 Championship to be broadcast to over 100 countries Tournament will be available in more than 160 million homes around the globe Tickets selling well as fans await future stars of world rugby One week to go until kick-off in ItalyWorld Rugby will broadcast this year\u2019s U20 Championship to more than 100 countries around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7928,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926\/revisions\/7928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intouchrugby.com\/connacht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}