{"id":9106,"date":"2019-06-17T17:26:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verwoodtoday.co.uk\/?p=9106"},"modified":"2019-06-17T17:26:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:26:15","slug":"verwood-teenager-to-play-for-under-18-great-britain-handball-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/verwood-teenager-to-play-for-under-18-great-britain-handball-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Verwood teenager to play for under 18 Great Britain Handball Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>16-year-old Verwood resident Joseph Sanyal is flying to Sweden to represent Great Britain with his Poole Phoenix Handball teammate Joe Trent in Handball.<\/p>\n<p>The pair have recently made the selection for the under 18 squad and will compete in the European Open this July.  Both are in sixth form currently studying for their A-Levels. <\/p>\n<p>Joseph, aged 16, is from Verwood and at Wimborne\u2019s Queen Elizabeth School. He first tried handball when he was 14 at Poole Phoenix and was selected to play for Dorset.<\/p>\n<p>Joe is 17 and from Corfe Mullen is at Corfe Hills School.<\/p>\n<p>They will be facing Sweden, Czech Republic, Russia, Switzerland and Luxembourg allowing them to experience the game on a whole new level.<\/p>\n<p>As the Handball Program currently receives little funding from national schemes, the squad is crowdfunding and would be incredibly grateful to any person or business willing to help <a href=\"http:\/\/justgiving.com\/crowdfunding\/gbm18\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">via this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16-year-old Verwood resident Joseph Sanyal is flying to Sweden to represent Great Britain with his Poole Phoenix Handball teammate Joe Trent in Handball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":9115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-9106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-verwood","tag-joseph-sanyal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}