{"id":497337,"date":"2026-03-27T00:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/497337\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T00:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:45:09","slug":"wales-flanker-james-botham-signs-new-cardiff-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/497337\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales flanker James Botham signs new Cardiff deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since joining the club&#8217;s academy, Botham has made 78 first team appearances and believes &#8220;there is plenty more to come&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is a huge amount of talent, plenty of competition and a real hunger to keep driving forward,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;On a personal level, I am just happy to have had an injury free run and been able to show what I am capable of both for Cardiff and at international level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cardiff coach Corniel van Zyl said: &#8220;It&#8217;s great to keep Jim at Cardiff. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He has an exceptional athletic ability and always embraces the physical challenge. He has a massive engine, a very good skillset and is very handy right across the pitch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He is really deep rooted in the club and contributes a lot off the pitch. He is someone who always looks out for his mates and people at the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So I&#8217;m excited for his future here and he will be a really important figure for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since joining the club&#8217;s academy, Botham has made 78 first team appearances and believes &#8220;there is plenty more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-497337","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\/497337","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=497337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}