{"id":43184,"date":"2026-06-04T04:59:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/mackenzie-martin-martin-joins-french-tier-two-side-beziers-after-dragons-exit\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T04:59:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:59:37","slug":"mackenzie-martin-martin-joins-french-tier-two-side-beziers-after-dragons-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/mackenzie-martin-martin-joins-french-tier-two-side-beziers-after-dragons-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Mackenzie Martin: Martin joins French tier-two side Beziers after Dragons exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Wales back-row forward Mackenzie Martin has joined French second-tier side Beziers until the end of the 2028-29 season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old was a free agent when his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cx2n5n1rrvko\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">season-long loan at Dragons<\/a> from Cardiff expired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin made five Wales appearances in 2024, but fell out of favour at Cardiff and endured an injury-plagued 2025-26 campaign at Dragons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The move to France could potentially render Martin ineligible for Wales as he has won  fewer than 25 caps. However, if he did not receive a contract offer from a Welsh team then he remains available for Test duty if selected, despite playing his domestic rugby outside Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beziers chairman Bobby Skinstad, the former South Africa star, said: &#8220;I am delighted to welcome Mackenzie to the club. Young, powerful and determined, he will immediately find his place in the Red and Blue family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beziers finished 12th of 16 teams in French ProD2 with 12 wins and 18 defeats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cj4pr10e09ro?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wales back-row forward Mackenzie Martin has joined French second-tier side Beziers until the end of the 2028-29 season. The 22-year-old was a free agent when his season-long loan at Dragons from Cardiff expired. Martin made five Wales appearances in 2024, but fell out of favour at Cardiff and endured an injury-plagued 2025-26 campaign at Dragons. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43185,"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\/43184"}],"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=43184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43186,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43184\/revisions\/43186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}