{"id":347955,"date":"2026-01-02T11:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347955\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T11:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:04:11","slug":"salesi-rayasi-commits-to-bordeaux-with-two-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347955\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesi Rayasi commits to Bordeaux with two-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/auckland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Auckland<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/hurricanes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hurricanes<\/a> fullback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/salesi-rayasi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Salesi Rayasi<\/a> has extended his contract at Bourdeax for an extra two years, keeping the Flying Fijians winger at the club until 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The utility back has started the season with a hiss and a roar, scoring six tries in eleven games, including a double in November against Montpellier.<\/p>\n<p>Rayasi has played eleven games for the club this season, after leaving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/vannes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vannes<\/a> at the end of 2024 after two years and 21 appearances for the club.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old burst onto the scene in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/new-zealand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand<\/a> at NPC level for Auckland, a team for which he made 53 appearances over five seasons at the provincial club.<\/p>\n<p>The extension comes after a strong international season with Fiji, where he was called up for the first time to take on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/scotland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scotland<\/a> and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Rayasi then made four appearances for the Fijian national team, including impressing against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/australia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/newcastle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newcastle<\/a> early on in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0RugbyRama, the former Hurricanes player was approached by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/bayonne\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bayonne<\/a> and Stade Fran\u00e7ais Paris, but he decided to extend his contract at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/bordeaux\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bordeaux<\/a> for an extra two years.<\/p>\n<p>Bourdeax Rugby\u2019s president, Laurent Marti, said: \u201cWe need him. The player wants to stay; the staff wants to keep him. This is the deal we\u2019re working on,\u201d the president said before Christmas on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/top-14\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top 14<\/a> rugby programme.<\/p>\n<p>Bourdeax currently sits 5th in the French Top 14 after thirteen games, just inside the six playoff spots.<\/p>\n<p>Rayasi\u2019s next game is against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/racing-92\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Racing 92<\/a> on Sunday, January 4, where his side will host the round 14 fixture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Auckland and Hurricanes fullback Salesi Rayasi has extended his contract at Bourdeax for an extra two years,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-347955","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\/347955","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=347955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}