{"id":34056,"date":"2019-03-04T13:22:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T13:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34056"},"modified":"2019-03-04T13:22:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T13:22:39","slug":"rugby-official-could-quit-if-pacific-islands-excluded-from-new-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34056","title":{"rendered":"Rugby official could quit if Pacific Islands excluded from new league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Radical plans to reshape rugby&#8217;s international calendar have caused shockwaves through the sport, but World Rugby vice-chairman Agustin Pichot has quelled fears that certain teams &#8212; specifically Fiji and Samoa &#8212; will be excluded from the new league.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/02\/28\/sport\/world-rugby-league-proposal-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Reports last week<\/a> suggested a 12-team, ring-fenced World League was set to be established in 2020, with the likes of USA, Japan, and Italy &#8212; ranked 11th, 13th, and 15th in the world respectively &#8212; included <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/01\/sport\/daniel-leo-world-rugby-league-proposal-pacific-islands-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">at the expense of the Pacific Island nations<\/a>. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">But Pichot, a former Argentina captain who retired from rugby a decade ago, has said he is advocating promotion and relegation between two international leagues.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Radical plans to reshape rugby&#8217;s international calendar have caused shockwaves through the sport, but World Rugby vice-chairman Agustin Pichot has quelled fears that certain teams &#8212; specifically Fiji and Samoa &#8212; will be excluded from the new league.Reports last week suggested a 12-team, ring-fenced World League was set to be established in 2020, with the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":34057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}