{"id":458692,"date":"2025-09-28T20:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T20:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/458692\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T20:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T20:25:10","slug":"spain-rugby-team-to-face-fiji-in-malaga-this-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/458692\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain rugby team to face Fiji in Malaga this November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"v-mdl-ath__p v-mdl-ath__p--6\">\nSunday, 28 September 2025, 21:50<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-p\">Spain will host Fiji in a rugby union friendly at the Ciudad de M\u00e1laga athletics stadium this November as part of their preparations for the 2027 World Cup. The fixture will be one of three autumn internationals arranged for Pablo Bouza\u2019s side, alongside matches against Tonga in Legan\u00e9s and England in Valladolid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-p\">Fiji, ranked ninth in the world, are regulars at the sport\u2019s top tournaments, while Tonga sit 17th in the global standings and England fifth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-p\">The date for the Malaga clash is yet to be confirmed, though Spain\u2019s meeting with England has been scheduled for 16 November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-p\">The national team secured qualification for the 2027 World Cup in Australia earlier this year, marking only their second appearance at the tournament after 1999. <\/p>\n<p class=\"v-p\">Malaga-born full-back Alberto Carmona, who came through Rugby Malaga and now plays in France, could feature if selected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, 28 September 2025, 21:50 Spain will host Fiji in a rugby union friendly at the Ciudad de&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,26660,33405,7707,153707,4151,104,6097,9989],"class_list":{"0":"post-458692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-face","11":"tag-fiji","12":"tag-malaga","13":"tag-november","14":"tag-rugby","15":"tag-spain","16":"tag-team","17":"tag-this"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115283803152479349","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}