{"id":339419,"date":"2025-12-10T12:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T12:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/339419\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T12:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T12:48:08","slug":"sevu-reece-to-join-perpignan-signalling-end-to-international-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/339419\/","title":{"rendered":"Sevu Reece to join Perpignan signalling end to international career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reece is known for his impressive footwork and eye for the tryline, and it\u2019s these talents that have earned him 37 appearances for the All Blacks, scoring 22 tries.<\/p>\n<p>He earned his first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/country\/wales\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Black<\/a> cap in July 2019 against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/team\/argentina\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Argentina<\/a> and his last against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/country\/wales\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wales<\/a> last November, scoring a try in a thrilling 52-26 win.<\/p>\n<p>His arrival in France will, however, call to an end his international career, due to selection restrictions on choosing overseas players.<\/p>\n<p>Even if Reece did return to New Zealand after his time in France, he would be in his early 30s, which well exceeds the life expectancy of an All Black outside back.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/news\/world-rugby-have-created-their-own-monster-as-prominent-coach-hits-out-at-calls-to-depower-scrums\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Rugby have \u2018created their own monster\u2019 as prominent coach hits out at calls to depower scrums<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reece is known for his impressive footwork and eye for the tryline, and it\u2019s these talents that have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,2592,818,1182,1736,44,760,188677,85],"class_list":["post-339419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-france","tag-home-page","tag-internationals","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-rugby","tag-sevu-reece","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339419","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=339419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}