{"id":230733,"date":"2025-10-21T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/230733\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:22:10","slug":"wallabies-vs-japan-israel-folau-joseph-suaalii-australia-great-in-camp-at-urayasu-d-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/230733\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallabies vs Japan, Israel Folau, Joseph Suaalii, Australia great in camp at Urayasu D-Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel Folau<\/a> is back in Wallabies<\/a> camp.<\/p>\n

But before you check the calendar for April 1, this will only be a fleeting return.<\/p>\n

The exiled Test great is playing host this week as Australia use the training facilities of his and Samu Kerevi’s Japanese club team, the Urayasu D-Rocks.<\/p>\n

Watch Wallabies vs Japan and the 2025 Autumn Nations Series with every match streaming live and on demand on the home of rugby, Stan Sport<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Israel<\/p>\n

Israel Folau takes the field for Tonga in 2022.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Folau, 36, now plays for Tonga after his Rugby Australia contract was torn up in 2019 over a series of homophobic posts on social media.<\/p>\n

It led to a bitter legal dispute and Folau has had virtually nothing to do with RA since.<\/p>\n

But the key development has been Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii’s switch to rugby.<\/p>\n

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\"Israel<\/p>\n

Israel Folau hangs out with the Wallabies.\u00a0Instagram<\/p>\n

Folau is a mentor to Suaalii and the Wallabies shared a happy snap of the players on Instagram ahead of Saturday’s clash with Eddie Jones’ Japan in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

“I actually met Israel when I was 14, I really looked up to him when I was younger,” Suaalii said last year.<\/p>\n

“For a young kid, I really wanted to ask a lot of questions. I feel like that has been one of my strengths, just learning. And I feel like Israel was someone I could look up to and ask questions to. Every now and then I do catch up with him, and he’s a great mentor in my life.<\/p>\n

“Izzy is a man that doesn’t speak a lot, but it’s more his actions that I’ve picked up on. He’s a great man first of all and I think that’s the biggest thing I’ve learnt \u2013 to always be a great man outside of footy.”<\/p>\n

Suaalii was named rookie of the year at RA’s awards night last week.<\/p>\n

Joe Schmidt will name his team to play Japan on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel Folau is back in Wallabies camp. But before you check the calendar for April 1, this will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-230733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}