{"id":734962,"date":"2026-08-11T22:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/734962\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T22:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:04:09","slug":"rugby-league-wales-to-host-usa-in-neath-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/734962\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby League: Wales to host USA in Neath friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales will play USA in a rugby league friendly at the Gnoll in the autumn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul Berry&#8217;s side will host the Americans in Neath on Saturday, 17 October, with the kick-off time to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will be the second part of a Welsh international double-header, with the women taking on England at the Rugby League World Cup in Australia earlier in the day (07:35 GMT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The last meeting between the nations took place at the 2013 World Cup, when co-hosts Wales suffered a 24-16 loss in Wrexham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s really exciting for us to have the opportunity to play the USA on home soil,&#8221; said Berry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a nation we wouldn&#8217;t play too regularly at any level, so we jumped at the chance when we were presented with the opportunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales last played in November when beaten 36-12 by Ireland in Featherstone, that after they had enjoyed a 24-0 home win when the sides met in Neath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales will play USA in a rugby league friendly at the Gnoll in the autumn. Paul Berry&#8217;s side&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-734962","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\/734962","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=734962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}