{"id":36066,"date":"2025-09-19T16:23:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/england-recovers-stars-kildunne-and-botterman-for-womens-world-cup-semifinal\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T16:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:23:27","slug":"england-recovers-stars-kildunne-and-botterman-for-womens-world-cup-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/england-recovers-stars-kildunne-and-botterman-for-womens-world-cup-semifinal\/","title":{"rendered":"England Recovers Stars: Kildunne and Botterman for Women&#8217;s World Cup Semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Kildunne and Botterman Return for Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup Semi-Final<\/h2>\n\nThe prominent players Ellie Kildunne and Hannah Botterman are ready to return from their injuries and reinforce England in the crucial Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup semi-final against France. The anticipated match will take place in Bristol this Saturday.\n\nBoth Kildunne, who plays as a fullback, and Botterman, prop, suffered injuries in the last group stage match against Australia.\n\nIn addition, Zoe Harrison, in the fly-half position, and Abbie Ward, as lock, also return to the starting team after having been substitutes in last week&#8217;s resounding quarter-final victory against Scotland.\n\nKildunne had to leave the field due to a concussion against the Wallaroos, which kept her out of the game for 12 days. Botterman, for her part, suffered a back spasm.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0918%2Fr1547331_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Ellie Kildunne\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<em>Ellie Kildunne will be back for England this week.<\/em>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Ashton Gate was the scene of a great performance in difficult conditions last weekend, and the girls are eager to get back out for the semi-final.<\/p><cite>John Mitchell, Coach<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nMitchell also added:\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We have earned this stage, and now we have another chance to earn the right. Our game is working and it&#8217;s the right path; working together we will continue to improve.<\/p><cite>John Mitchell, Coach<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nHe also commented on the French team:\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>France has faced challenges, and that will drive them, we hope. We don&#8217;t need to be perfect, just effective, focused and ready for the fight. We are excited and ready to hunt them.<\/p><cite>John Mitchell, Coach<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kildunne and Botterman Return for Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup Semi-Final The prominent players Ellie Kildunne and Hannah Botterman are ready to return from their injuries and reinforce England in the crucial Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup semi-final against France. The anticipated match will take place in Bristol this Saturday. Both Kildunne, who plays as a fullback, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[509,684,203,618],"class_list":{"0":"post-36066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rugby","7":"tag-england","8":"tag-france","9":"tag-rugby","10":"tag-semifinal"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36066","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=36066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}