{"id":111099,"date":"2025-09-03T08:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T08:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/111099\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T08:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T08:42:10","slug":"france-lose-yet-another-star-for-november-as-springboks-clash-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/111099\/","title":{"rendered":"France lose yet another star for November as Springboks clash looms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bordeaux-Begles centre Yoram Moefana<\/a> is set to be out of action for the next three months after injuring his shoulder in a pre-season match against Top 14<\/a> newcomers Montauban.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old, who has been one of France\u2019s best performers over the past year, will require surgery on his right shoulder, according to French outlet L\u2019Equipe<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The injury will rule the centre out of France\u2019s Autumn Nations Series<\/a> meetings with world champions South Africa, Fiji and Australia.<\/p>\n

Rassie Erasmus\u2019 Springboks will take on Fabien Galthie\u2019s side for the first time since their 2023 World Cup quarter-final victory, returning to Stade de France\u00a0where they triumphed over the All Blacks<\/a> in the final. Les Bleus will already be without talisman and captain Antoine Dupont<\/a>, and Moefana has added to their injury woes before the Top 14 season has even begun.<\/p>\n

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The 36-cap centre was given the summer off by France, as they suffered a 3-0 series loss to the All Blacks, having started every Test for Les Bleus last season in the No.12 jersey, scoring two tries in their Six Nations-clinching victory over Scotland<\/a> in Paris.<\/p>\n

Galthie\u2019s worries do not end there, though, as Dupont\u2019s deputy Maxime Lucu<\/a> has joined Moefana on the Bordeaux<\/a> injury list, and is also set to miss the opening two months of the Top 14 season with a thumb injury.<\/p>\n

While the scrum-half should be fit in time for France\u2019s November campaign, this is a damaging blow for the Investec Champions Cup<\/a> winners, who will want to make a strong start to their league campaign as they search for their first-ever domestic title, having been runners-up the past two seasons.<\/p>\n

Bordeaux get their Top 14 campaign underway against Ronan O\u2019Gara\u2019s La Rochelle on Saturday, and are also set to be without Adam Coleman<\/a> (pec), Lachlan Swinton<\/a> (knee), Arthur Reti\u00e8re (calf), Pablo Uberti<\/a> (shoulder), Rohan van Rensburg (adductor) and Romain Buros<\/a> (calf).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bordeaux-Begles centre Yoram Moefana is set to be out of action for the next three months after injuring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-111099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}