{"id":449777,"date":"2026-02-28T05:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/449777\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T05:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:50:09","slug":"ex-england-full-back-nick-abendanon-earns-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/449777\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-England full-back Nick Abendanon earns new deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/england\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a> international <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/nick-abendanon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Abendanon<\/a> has been handed a new two-deal by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/bayonne\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bayonne<\/a> to continue working as the club\u2019s defence and skills coach.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old, South African, who won two caps for England on the eve of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/rugby-world-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rugby World Cup<\/a> 2007, is now contracted to the club until the end of the 2027\/28 season.<\/p>\n<p>Abendanon moved into coaching in 2021 after his playing days ended, having served Bath, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/clermont\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clermont<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/vannes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vannes<\/a> as a brilliant counter-attacking full-back. In 2015, he was named European Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>After two seasons coaching Vannes, Abendanon joined Bayonne ahead of the 2023\/24 season.<\/p>\n<p>Abendanon had been linked with a move to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/brive\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brive<\/a> but he has now committed himself to the Basque outfit, who are struggling near the foot of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/top-14\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top 14<\/a> table.<\/p>\n<p>Despite winning nearly half of their 17 games (eight), Bayonne are languishing in 12th position, with a points difference in mnus three figures (-105).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England international Nick Abendanon has been handed a new two-deal by Bayonne to continue working as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-449777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449777","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=449777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}