{"id":37532,"date":"2026-01-09T01:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/eben-etzebeth-wales-alex-mann-not-dwelling-on-gouging-incident\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T01:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:46:11","slug":"eben-etzebeth-wales-alex-mann-not-dwelling-on-gouging-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/eben-etzebeth-wales-alex-mann-not-dwelling-on-gouging-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Eben Etzebeth: Wales&#8217; Alex Mann not dwelling on gouging incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mann believes he continues to improve as a player, both physically and mentally, since his breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I feel better as a player now,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Physically I feel stronger and more comfortable, and I feel like I can have more of an effect on games. It&#8217;s just about giving everything to each match and preparing as well as I can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cardiff head coach Corneil van Zyl has been impressed with Mann&#8217;s development and praised his coachability and attention to detail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Manny&#8217;s intent is next level and his detail is next level,&#8221; said van Zyl. &#8220;He&#8217;s probably one of the most coachable players I&#8217;ve ever coached.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a testing festive period in the United Rugby Championship, Cardiff turn their attention back to Europe as they host Racing in the European Challenge Cup at the Arms Park on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c20d49x65qlo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mann believes he continues to improve as a player, both physically and mentally, since his breakthrough. &#8220;I feel better as a player now,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Physically I feel stronger and more comfortable, and I feel like I can have more of an effect on games. It&#8217;s just about giving everything to each match and preparing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37533,"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\/37532"}],"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=37532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37534,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37532\/revisions\/37534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}