{"id":46145,"date":"2025-10-08T15:47:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T19:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/sinfield-supports-moody-after-als-diagnosis-fighting-the-disease\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T15:47:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T19:47:59","slug":"sinfield-supports-moody-after-als-diagnosis-fighting-the-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/sinfield-supports-moody-after-als-diagnosis-fighting-the-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinfield Supports Moody After ALS Diagnosis: Fighting the Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"Kevin Sinfield has expressed his full support after learning of the diagnosis of motor neuron disease (MND) of former England rugby captain Lewis Moody.\n\nSince his friend and teammate at Leeds Rhinos, Rob Burrow, was diagnosed with the disease in 2019, Sinfield has raised more than \u00a310 million to fund research and raise awareness of MND.\n\nBurrow passed away at 41 years old last June due to complications from the disease.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1007%2Fr1556824_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Lewis Moody capitane\u00f3 a Inglaterra durante su carrera de rugby. Michael Steele\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nSinfield, currently the coach of the England rugby team, told the PA news agency: &#8220;Obviously, I am very saddened by the news. I would like to wish Lewis and all his family and friends the best.&#8221;\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I will support in any way I can. We have to keep fighting together against MND.<\/p><cite>Kevin Sinfield<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/rugby\/story\/_\/id\/46505918\/former-england-captain-lewis-moody-reveals-mnd-diagnosis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Former England captain Lewis Moody reveals MND diagnosis<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ul>\n\nSinfield received a CBE last year for his services to the ENM community.\n\nSinfield&#8217;s next fundraising challenge, 7 in 7: Together, is scheduled for early December, when he will run seven ultramarathons in seven days through seven cities or regions.\n\nIn May 2023, Sinfield carried his friend Burrow over the finish line at the Leeds Marathon.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Sinfield has expressed his full support after learning of the diagnosis of motor neuron disease (MND) of former England rugby captain Lewis Moody. Since his friend and teammate at Leeds Rhinos, Rob Burrow, was diagnosed with the disease in 2019, Sinfield has raised more than \u00a310 million to fund research and raise awareness of [&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":[9605,9570,9571,203],"class_list":{"0":"post-46145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rugby","7":"tag-kevin-sinfield","8":"tag-lewis-moody","9":"tag-mnd","10":"tag-rugby"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46145","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=46145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}