{"id":56629,"date":"2025-06-12T13:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/under-20-world-championship-harry-beddall-back-to-lead-wales-in-final-warm-up-against-italy\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T13:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:40:15","slug":"under-20-world-championship-harry-beddall-back-to-lead-wales-in-final-warm-up-against-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/under-20-world-championship-harry-beddall-back-to-lead-wales-in-final-warm-up-against-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Under-20 World Championship: Harry Beddall back to lead Wales in final warm-up against Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Flanker Harry Beddall returns for Wales Under-20s to face their Italian counterparts at Cardiff Arms Park on Friday (16:30 BST).<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The game is Wales&#8217; last before the head to the 2025 World Rugby Junior Championship which kicks off in Italy at the end of June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beddall will come into a back row that includes number eight Evan Minto &#8211; he is one of three survivors from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c98pr9d3j45o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Wales&#8217; 47-14 defeat by England<\/a> in Pontypool last Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fly-half Harri Ford and wing Ioan Duggan also hold onto their spots to face Italy in an otherwise much-changed matchday squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We wanted to use the England game as an opportunity for some guys that hadn&#8217;t had much game time to experience top-end match action and this Italy game was earmarked as final preparation for the World Cup and so it was almost a case of getting a few boys some minutes before we get on the plane,&#8221; said Whiffin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales edged past Italy in the U20 Six Nations and Whiffin expects a stern challenge from the visitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;They will be a very tough team, you only have to go back to the game in the Six Nations and how tough it was out there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We snuck over the line thanks to a last minute shot at goal by them. It was a tough battle, they have got a very strong pack, possess a strong kicking game and have some really quick outside backs so they will challenge us right across the field.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales&#8217; World Championship kicks off against Argentina on 29 June with games against France and Spain to follow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c991zjj72kgo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flanker Harry Beddall returns for Wales Under-20s to face their Italian counterparts at Cardiff Arms Park on Friday (16:30 BST). The game is Wales&#8217; last before the head to the 2025 World Rugby Junior Championship which kicks off in Italy at the end of June. Beddall will come into a back row that includes number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50],"tags":[17489,2385,856,980,4446,1101,17488,312,11501,510],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56631,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56629\/revisions\/56631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}