{"id":15194,"date":"2025-05-31T12:59:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T12:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/juan-gonzalez-worcester-warriors-sign-uruguay-back-for-championship-return\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T12:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T12:59:42","slug":"juan-gonzalez-worcester-warriors-sign-uruguay-back-for-championship-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/juan-gonzalez-worcester-warriors-sign-uruguay-back-for-championship-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Gonzalez: Worcester Warriors sign Uruguay back for Championship return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Worcester Warriors have continued shaping their squad ahead of their return to professional rugby with the signing of Uruguay back Juan Gonzalez.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old is a regular for his country in sevens and featured in the Olympic Games in Paris last summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He scored four tries in Los Teros&#8217; three group matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gonzalez has also played 15-a-side for Uruguay, making his Test debut against Spain last November before winning further caps against Japan and Romania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is expected to be part of the squad for July&#8217;s Tests, at home to Romania and away to Argentina, before Uruguay&#8217;s World Cup qualifier with Paraguay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Juan has a serious amount of exciting talent,&#8221; said Warriors head coach Matt Everard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[He has] brilliant footwork, combined with a tough edge.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/ceqgzx4l8rlo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worcester Warriors have continued shaping their squad ahead of their return to professional rugby with the signing of Uruguay back Juan Gonzalez. The 22-year-old is a regular for his country in sevens and featured in the Olympic Games in Paris last summer. He scored four tries in Los Teros&#8217; three group matches. Gonzalez has also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15194","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\/15194","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=15194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15196,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15194\/revisions\/15196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}