{"id":31124,"date":"2025-06-16T18:26:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T18:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/ben-flower-joins-wales-womens-coaching-set-up-with-rugby-world-cup-on-horizon\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T18:26:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T18:26:30","slug":"ben-flower-joins-wales-womens-coaching-set-up-with-rugby-world-cup-on-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/ben-flower-joins-wales-womens-coaching-set-up-with-rugby-world-cup-on-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Flower joins Wales women&#8217;s coaching set-up with Rugby World Cup on horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former rugby league prop Ben Flower has been added to Wales women&#8217;s coaching set-up.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 37-year-old will take charge of the collision area as Wales prepare for a two-Test tour of Australia and the Rugby World Cup that follows in England. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cardiff-born Flower was capped 17 times for Wales and played for Crusaders, Wigan Warriors and Leigh Centurions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He won the Challenge Cup, three Super League titles and the World Club challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During his time with Wigan, Flower received a six-month ban for hitting St Helens stand-off Lance Hohaia in the 2014 Super League Grand Final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He became the first player to be sent off in a Grand Final, with his ban becoming the longest in the history of the Super League.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/cnvmyy430veo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former rugby league prop Ben Flower has been added to Wales women&#8217;s coaching set-up. The 37-year-old will take charge of the collision area as Wales prepare for a two-Test tour of Australia and the Rugby World Cup that follows in England. Cardiff-born Flower was capped 17 times for Wales and played for Crusaders, Wigan Warriors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31126,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31124\/revisions\/31126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}