{"id":2963,"date":"2024-08-08T22:18:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T22:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/vaea-fifita-tonga-forward-signs-new-scarlets-deal\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T22:18:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T22:18:16","slug":"vaea-fifita-tonga-forward-signs-new-scarlets-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/vaea-fifita-tonga-forward-signs-new-scarlets-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaea Fifita: Tonga forward signs new Scarlets deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The Scarlets supporters and community have made me and my family feel really at home,&#8221; said Fifita.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This means a lot to me and is something I don&#8217;t take for granted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;By extending my contract I am demonstrating the confidence and commitment I have in this club, the staff and the direction we are heading.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After making 11 appearances for New Zealand, Fifita switched to the country of his birth, Tonga, before the 2023 World Cup in France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is fantastic Vaea has committed,&#8221; said Scarlets head coach Dwayne Peel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He is a world-class athlete who has become a favourite with supporters since he arrived at the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He is a special player who can produce special moments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You only have to look at the tries he has scored for us and he is also one of the best line-out forwards in the United Rugby Championship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cdrlj8080r7o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Scarlets supporters and community have made me and my family feel really at home,&#8221; said Fifita. &#8220;This means a lot to me and is something I don&#8217;t take for granted. &#8220;By extending my contract I am demonstrating the confidence and commitment I have in this club, the staff and the direction we are heading.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2963","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\/2963","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=2963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2965,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions\/2965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}