{"id":140454,"date":"2021-05-07T20:01:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T11:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=140454&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-05-07T20:02:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T11:02:24","slug":"fukuokas-coca-cola-red-sparks-rugby-team-to-disband","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuokas-coca-cola-red-sparks-rugby-team-to-disband\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka\u2019s Coca-Cola Red Sparks Rugby Team to Disband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan Inc. announced plans to disband their professional rugby team, the Coca-Cola Red Sparks, at the end of 2021. The team, established in 1966, has been based in Fukuoka and played in Japan\u2019s Top Challenge League since 2006. The company explained it needs to accelerate business restructuring to sustain its beverage business within rapidly changing markets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Photo:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Nick Cummings by Fukuoka Now (2014) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/nick-cummins\/\">https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/nick-cummins\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikkansports.com\/sports\/news\/202104300000559.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nikkan Sports<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-126339\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/nick-cummins-WEB-007.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/nick-cummins-WEB-007.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/nick-cummins-WEB-007.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/nick-cummins-WEB-007.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/nick-cummins-WEB-007.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coca-cola Bottlers Japan Inc. announced plans to disband their professional rugby team, the Coca-Cola Red Sparks, at the end of 2021. The team, established in 1966, has been based in Fukuoka and played in Japan\u2019s Top Challenge League since 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":126339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-140454","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-city","news-category-sports","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/140454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}