{"id":83373,"date":"2025-11-20T05:53:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/pollock-from-england-nominated-for-rugby-breakthrough-player-of-the-year-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T05:53:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:53:51","slug":"pollock-from-england-nominated-for-rugby-breakthrough-player-of-the-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/pollock-from-england-nominated-for-rugby-breakthrough-player-of-the-year-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollock from England, nominated for Rugby Breakthrough Player of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Henry Pollock, Nominated for World Rugby Breakthrough Player of the Year<\/h2>\n\nEnglish flanker Henry Pollock has been included in the list of four nominees for the World Rugby Breakthrough Player of the Year award.\n\nThe 20-year-old was selected for the British and Irish Lions&#8217; summer tour of Australia, after scoring two tries in his international debut against Wales in March.\n\nPollock, a Northampton player who did not participate in a Lions Test, has earned three additional caps with England this autumn, including a try in the 25-7 victory over the Wallabies on November 1st.\n\nHe could become the first Englishman to win the award since the current national team captain, Maro Itoje, in 2016.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1118%2Fr1577105_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Pollock ha brillado para Inglaterra en recientes victorias sobre Inglaterra y Australia.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<em>Henry Pollock has shone for England in recent victories over England and Australia.<\/em>\n\nThe other nominees are New Zealand second row, Fabian Holland (born in Holland), South Africa wing, Ethan Hooker, and Australia back, Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii.\n\nFrance wing Louis Bielle-Biarrey has been nominated for the World Rugby Player of the Year award.\n\nThe 22-year-old player was named Player of the Tournament in the 2025 Six Nations, after scoring a record eight tries.\n\nThe current Player of the Year, Pieter-Steph du Toit \u2013 who also won the award in 2019 \u2013 is also on the list, along with his South African teammates, Malcolm Marx and Ox Nche.\n\nThe winners of both awards will be announced on Saturday.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Pollock, Nominated for World Rugby Breakthrough Player of the Year English flanker Henry Pollock has been included in the list of four nominees for the World Rugby Breakthrough Player of the Year award. The 20-year-old was selected for the British and Irish Lions&#8217; summer tour of Australia, after scoring two tries in his international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1131,509,1277,203],"class_list":{"0":"post-83373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-award","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-henry-pollock","11":"tag-rugby"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83373","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=83373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}