{"id":11495,"date":"2025-03-05T19:01:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T19:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/james-venter-south-african-back-row-to-join-gloucester-from-sharks\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T19:01:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T19:01:24","slug":"james-venter-south-african-back-row-to-join-gloucester-from-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/james-venter-south-african-back-row-to-join-gloucester-from-sharks\/","title":{"rendered":"James Venter: South African back row to join Gloucester from Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"


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South African back row James Venter will join Gloucester from Durban-based Sharks ahead of next season.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 28-year-old began his career at Lions in Johannesburg before moving to Sharks in 2020, where he has made 46 appearances.<\/p>\n

“I’m pleased to have signed for Gloucester Rugby next season. I was really impressed by the vision the club has for the future, and I’m looking forward to playing my part in that,” Venter told Gloucester’s website., external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“I’ve heard amazing things about Kingsholm and the incredible support from the fans. That played a huge role in my decision to move to England. I can’t wait to experience it all first-hand.”<\/p>\n

Gloucester are third in the Premiership table, level on points with fourth-placed Leicester Tigers.<\/p>\n

They visit leaders Bath when the league returns after the completion of the Six Nations on Saturday, 22 March.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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South African back row James Venter will join Gloucester from Durban-based Sharks ahead of next season. The 28-year-old began his career at Lions in Johannesburg before moving to Sharks in 2020, where he has made 46 appearances. “I’m pleased to have signed for Gloucester Rugby next season. I was really impressed by the vision the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11497,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11495\/revisions\/11497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}