{"id":22205,"date":"2025-08-05T07:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/david-porecki-retires-end-of-the-wallabies-hookers-career\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T07:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:24:00","slug":"david-porecki-retires-end-of-the-wallabies-hookers-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/david-porecki-retires-end-of-the-wallabies-hookers-career\/","title":{"rendered":"David Porecki Retires: End of the Wallabies Hooker’s Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Porecki Hangs Up His Boots: End of a Professional Career<\/h2>\n\nWallabies hooker David Porecki has announced his retirement from professional rugby with immediate effect. The 32-year-old, born and raised in Sydney, is ending his career just days after being a late withdrawal from Australia’s 22-12 victory over the British and Irish Lions at Accor Stadium.\n\nPorecki had an unconventional career in professional rugby. After playing only one Super Rugby match for the NSW Waratahs in 2015, he spent five seasons in the UK with the Saracens and London Irish.\n\nHe returned to Australia and the Waratahs before the 2021 season, but his debut with the Wallabies came a year later, in a memorable victory against England in Perth.\n\nKnown for his precision in set plays and his tireless work rate, Porecki was included in the 2023 Rugby World Cup squad and became the 88th captain of the Wallabies following Will Skelton’s injury, leading the team in three of their four group stage matches in France.\n\n\n
\"David<\/figure>\n\n\nAn injury prevented him from playing the entire 2024 season, but he fought to return to the international stage and start for the Wallabies in their first test of the year against Fiji. His 21st and final appearance in the gold jersey of the Wallabies was against the Lions in Melbourne; a heel injury suffered during training forced him to miss the final of the series on Saturday night.\n\n\n
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“Putting on the gold jersey of the Wallabies and the blue of the Waratahs was a childhood dream, and being able to say that I did both is something I am incredibly proud of,” Porecki stated in a Waratahs statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cRugby has given me so much to be grateful for and has been a very important part of my life for so long, but I think it’s the right time to turn the page and start a new chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nWallabies coach Joe Schmidt paid tribute to the departing player.\n\n\n

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“Porky is the ultimate professional and a silent achiever,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n“He doesn’t say much, he prefers to dedicate himself to his work and lead by example, and he has done very well during the time I’ve known him,” said Waratahs coach Dan McKellar.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s a sad day when any player retires. I have worked closely with Porky for several years and have great respect for what he brings to the field with his qualities in set plays, his physique and his toughness,\u201d said McKellar.\n\n“He’s never been the biggest hooker there’s been. He’s always played above his weight. Off the field, he’s a real family man and a genuinely good guy. We’ll miss him a lot around the Waratahs.”","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Porecki Hangs Up His Boots: End of a Professional Career Wallabies hooker David Porecki has announced his retirement from professional rugby with immediate effect. The 32-year-old, born and raised in Sydney, is ending his career just days after being a late withdrawal from Australia’s 22-12 victory over the British and Irish Lions at Accor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[6850,168,203,921],"class_list":{"0":"post-22205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-david-porecki","9":"tag-retirement","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-wallabies"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22205","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=22205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}