{"id":11049,"date":"2025-06-17T03:44:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T07:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/van-poortvliet-bolsters-the-lions-called-up-for-the-match-vs-argentina\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T03:44:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T07:44:36","slug":"van-poortvliet-bolsters-the-lions-called-up-for-the-match-vs-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/van-poortvliet-bolsters-the-lions-called-up-for-the-match-vs-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Poortvliet Bolsters the Lions: Called Up for the Match vs. Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Jack van Poortvliet Boosts the British &amp; Irish Lions for Clash Against Argentina<\/h2>\n<p>The talented player Jack van Poortvliet has been called up by the British &amp; Irish Lions for their next match against Argentina, to be held on Friday in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Van Poortvliet, 24 years old, arrives to reinforce the scrum-half position, providing coverage to the team in its preparation for this week&#8217;s match.<\/p>\n<p>Leicester&#8217;s number 9, who was in the Gallagher Premiership final, joins the Lions after having participated with England in their match against France XV on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the team has three scrum-halves: Jamison Gibson-Park, Alex Mitchell, and Tomos Williams. The Lions have confirmed that Van Poortvliet&#8217;s inclusion is to &#8220;cover&#8221; the match against Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>This news comes a day after it was announced that the team was fully fit for Friday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>Van Poortvliet has 15 international matches with England, debuting in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack van Poortvliet Boosts the British &amp; Irish Lions for Clash Against Argentina The talented player Jack van Poortvliet has been called up by the British &amp; Irish Lions for their next match against Argentina, to be held on Friday in Dublin. Van Poortvliet, 24 years old, arrives to reinforce the scrum-half position, providing coverage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[893,1176,203,4195],"class_list":{"0":"post-11049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-argentina","9":"tag-british-lions","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-van-poortvliet"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}