{"id":35714,"date":"2026-10-02T06:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T06:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/josh-adams-wales-and-cardiff-wing-targets-third-rugby-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T06:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T06:56:07","slug":"josh-adams-wales-and-cardiff-wing-targets-third-rugby-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/josh-adams-wales-and-cardiff-wing-targets-third-rugby-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Adams: Wales and Cardiff wing targets third Rugby World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Wales wing Josh Adams says he would love to play in a third World Cup as he targets a first trip to Australia next year.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is exactly a year until Wales play their opening game against Zimbabwe in Adelaide on 2 October, before further pool games against Tonga and England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m desperate to go, but there is loads of rugby to be played and months ahead of us,&#8221; said Adams, looking ahead to the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is important that you navigate your way through correctly and get to that start line in a good spot to be selected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adams, 31, was the World Cup&#8217;s top try scorer in the 2019 tournament in Japan with seven as Wales reached the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Cardiff back, who was also part of the squad that lost a quarter-final to Argentina four years later, insists he is just as excited for a hat-trick of global tournaments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve never been to Australia, so that, as well as playing in a World Cup, is something I&#8217;m determined to do,&#8221; said Adams.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cmd797grev7ro?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wales wing Josh Adams says he would love to play in a third World Cup as he targets a first trip to Australia next year. It is exactly a year until Wales play their opening game against Zimbabwe in Adelaide on 2 October, before further pool games against Tonga and England. &#8220;I&#8217;m desperate to go, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35714","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\/35714","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=35714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35716,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35714\/revisions\/35716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}