{"id":58589,"date":"2025-10-23T05:21:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/rees-zammit-returns-to-wales-called-up-for-autumn-tests-after-nfl-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T05:21:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:21:30","slug":"rees-zammit-returns-to-wales-called-up-for-autumn-tests-after-nfl-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/rees-zammit-returns-to-wales-called-up-for-autumn-tests-after-nfl-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rees-Zammit Returns to Wales: Called Up for Autumn Tests After NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"Louis Rees-Zammit returns to the Wales national team this autumn, marking his return to rugby after trying to succeed in the NFL.\n\nThe fast 24-year-old player, who had signed with the Kansas City Chiefs and the Jacksonville Jaguars through the NFL&#8217;s International Player Pathway (IPP) program, returns to rugby after signing a contract with the Bristol Bears.\n\nHis two-year absence coincided with a negative streak for Wales, which included 18 consecutive losses from the 2023 Rugby World Cup to a match in Japan in July. During this period, Warren Gatland left the coaching position, being replaced by Steve Tandy.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2023%2F0910%2Fr1222775_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Louis Rees-Zammit spent 18 months with the NFL before returning to rugby in August.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\nRees-Zammit is part of a 39-player squad that includes five debutants: Danny Southworth, Brodie Coghlan, James Fender, Morgan Morse, and Louis Hennessey. Also included is Rhys Carre, the Saracens prop. Although Carre has 20 international matches, below the 25-cap limit for players playing outside of Wales, the Welsh Professional Rugby Board granted an exception to Tandy to select him.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It&#8217;s been very exciting to go through the whole process and realize how many good players we have. We are very happy with the selection. There is a good mix of young and experienced players. The overall feeling is very exciting and I&#8217;m looking forward to the boys training on Monday.<\/p><cite>Steve Tandy<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Red Roses legend Emily Scarratt to retire.<\/li><\/ul>\n\nA notable absence is Will Rowlands, who announced his retirement from international rugby on Tuesday, after a 41-match career with Wales.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Will has been a great servant to Welsh rugby. He has been an exceptional player and a great human being in the environment. It&#8217;s disappointing for us to lose a player of his quality, but we understand his circumstances and wish him the best for the future.<\/p><cite>Steve Tandy<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Rees-Zammit returns to the Wales national team this autumn, marking his return to rugby after trying to succeed in the NFL. The fast 24-year-old player, who had signed with the Kansas City Chiefs and the Jacksonville Jaguars through the NFL&#8217;s International Player Pathway (IPP) program, returns to rugby after signing a contract with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[6663,64,203,523],"class_list":{"0":"post-58589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-louis-rees-zammit","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-wales"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58589","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=58589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}