{"id":148601,"date":"2025-11-22T20:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T20:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/148601\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T20:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T20:25:13","slug":"fabian-holland-named-world-rugby-breakthrough-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/148601\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabian Holland named World Rugby breakthrough player of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/new-zealand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Blacks<\/a> second-row <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/fabian-holland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fabian Holland<\/a> has been named the World Rugby breakthrough player of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old becomes the sixth Kiwi to scoop the award since its inauguration in 2015, following in the footsteps of team-mate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/wallace-sititi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wallace Sititi<\/a>, who took home the award last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch-born Highlander beat England\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/henry-pollock\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Henry Pollock<\/a>, South Africa\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/ethan-hooker\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan Hooker<\/a> and Australia\u2019s Joseph-Aukuso Sua\u2019ali\u2019i to claim the prize.<\/p>\n<p>Since making his debut against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/france\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France<\/a> in July, the 6 ft 8 in forward has become a mainstay in the All Blacks\u2019 engine room, earning his 12th cap in the 52-26 victory over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/wales\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wales<\/a> today at the Principality Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The win in Cardiff brought Holland\u2019s season to an end, which has been crowned with this award.<\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763843113_471_818.png.webp\" alt=\"Team Logo\"\/> Match Summary <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763843113_9_811.png.webp\" alt=\"Team Logo\"\/>   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/live\/new-zealand-vs-wales\/?g=946479\/\" class=\"link-box\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Blacks second-row Fabian Holland has been named the World Rugby breakthrough player of the year. The 23-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-148601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}