{"id":84693,"date":"2025-11-22T05:55:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/pollock-from-england-nominated-for-rugby-breakthrough-player-of-the-year-3\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T05:55:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:55:57","slug":"pollock-from-england-nominated-for-rugby-breakthrough-player-of-the-year-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/pollock-from-england-nominated-for-rugby-breakthrough-player-of-the-year-3\/","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 rugby player, 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\nCould become the first Englishman to win the award since the current national team captain, Maro Itoje, achieved it 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=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nHenry Pollock has shone for England in recent victories.\n\nThe other nominees are the Dutch second row from New Zealand, Fabian Holland, the South African winger Ethan Hooker and the Australian player Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii.\n\nFrench winger Louis Bielle-Biarrey has been nominated for World Rugby Player of the Year.\n\nThe 22-year-old player was named player of the 2025 Six Nations tournament after scoring a record eight tries.\n\nThe current Player of the Year, Pieter-Steph du Toit, who also won the award in 2019, is again 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 rugby player, 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1131,509,1277,203],"class_list":{"0":"post-84693","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\/84693","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=84693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}