{"id":108195,"date":"2016-07-05T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T04:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=108195"},"modified":"2016-07-05T19:22:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T11:22:47","slug":"iium-students-to-represent-malaysia-at-fisu-wuc-rugby-sevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=108195","title":{"rendered":"IIUM students to represent Malaysia at FISU WUC Rugby Sevens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Ahmed Wafi<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>GOMBAK, 3 July 2016: Four IIUM students will be among 12 students who will represent Malaysia in the upcoming International University Sports Federation&#8217;s (FISU) World University Championships (WUC) Rugby Sevens tournament to take place in Swansea, Wales from 6 to 9 July this year. They are Muhammad Naquiyuddin, Mohamed Nasharuddin and brothers Muhammad Mirza and Muhammad Zakwan.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining eight others consist of students from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) and Universiti Malaya (UM).<\/p>\n<p>FISU is a French based university sports organisation that is responsible for organising the world famous University games or more commonly known as the Universiade, a biannual sports competition, participated exclusively by university students.<\/p>\n<p>A total of ten teams including France, Great Britain and Australia are to compete in the tournament. They will be divided into two groups where they will initially play a round robin format. After that, the top eight best placed teams will advance to the knockout stage.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia has been placed in the second group where they will face the likes of \u00c2\u00a0France, Argentina, Kenya and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with IIUMToday, Muhammad Naquiyuddin, one of the four IIUM students travelling to Swansea on Monday morning, shared his thoughts regarding the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;First of all, I&#8217;m grateful to be here and gain my first cap for the national team and this is a good chance to gain experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will be the first time I&#8217;ll be celebrating Hari Raya overseas,&#8221; he said while looking forward to the challenge. The national team acknowledged their size disadvantage when going up against the European sides but they still believe they can pull off a few surprises and look to advance to the knockout stage.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he had anything to say to aspiring athletes he simply reminded that hard work beats talent.***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ahmed Wafi GOMBAK, 3 July 2016: Four IIUM students will be among 12 students who will represent Malaysia in the upcoming International University Sports&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":108197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/image1-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108195"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108212,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108195\/revisions\/108212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}