Wests Tigers forward Alex Seyfarth has publicly declared his availability to represent England at this autumn\u2019s Rugby League World Cup.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old has made almost 100 appearances for the Tigers since making his NRL debut in 2020. He has also earned representative honours with the Prime Minister\u2019s XIII in 2024.<\/p>\n
Seyfarth was born and raised in Australia \u2013 but his mother hails from Bradford, having emigrated to Australia when she was a teenager. That means he is eligible to feature for England via the international eligibility rules.<\/p>\n
And instead of pursuing a Kangaroos call-up, Seyfarth has instead revealed to reporters in Australia that he wants to be an England international at the World Cup.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I can play some good football and put my name in the ring and get a chance to tour with them, that\u2019d be awesome, representing that side of my family,\u201d Seyfarth said. \u201cIt would mean the world, especially with my grandfather too, he\u2019s a very proud Englishman.<\/p>\n
\u201cSame with my mum. They came out here just for a better life at the time, and they\u2019re still always wanting to get back to get back there whenever they can. If I do ever get the opportunity, yeah, I\u2019ll be extremely proud to put the jersey on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Seyfarth\u2019s comments come ahead of the NRL\u2019s multicultural round this weekend, when players all across the competition will honour their heritage.<\/p>\n
And Seyfarth, as well as having direct descendants from England, also has Sri Lankan and Slovenian heritage, too.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mum was born in Bradford in England, she came over here when she was 14 years old,\u201d Seyfarth said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy grandfather on the other side, my dad\u2019s side, he was here in 1932, he came over on a boat. I didn\u2019t get to have as many conversations around what life was like over here. He\u2019s come over here and he\u2019s just worked up until the age of his mid-80s when he passed.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a bricklayer. I\u2019m a third-generation bricklayer with my old man. I was a bricklayer by trade before I went full-time NRL.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wests Tigers forward Alex Seyfarth has publicly declared his availability to represent England at this autumn\u2019s Rugby League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-484617","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\/484617","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=484617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}