{"id":45314,"date":"2026-08-02T03:40:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T03:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/emeka-ilione-leicester-tigers-back-row-out-until-next-year\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T03:40:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T03:40:50","slug":"emeka-ilione-leicester-tigers-back-row-out-until-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/emeka-ilione-leicester-tigers-back-row-out-until-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Emeka Ilione: Leicester Tigers back row out until next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Leicester Tigers back row Emeka Ilione has been ruled out until &#8220;at least&#8221; the end of 2026.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old has not played since January because of a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, lock Harry Palmer, 20, will not feature until November after undergoing a knee operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Unfortunately, Emeka&#8217;s shoulder injury is complex and hasn&#8217;t recovered as we hoped,&#8221; head coach Geoff Parling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestertigers.com\/news\/injury-update-emeka-ilione-and-harry-palmer\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">told the club website.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He will see the specialist again in November, but for now we know that he will be out until at least the New Year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">If you&#8217;re on the BBC Sport app or signed in on a browser, hit &#8216;Follow&#8217; on our <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/teams\/leicester\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Leicester club page<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\"> to add it to your MySport and get more Tigers news<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c78gz075568o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leicester Tigers back row Emeka Ilione has been ruled out until &#8220;at least&#8221; the end of 2026. The 24-year-old has not played since January because of a shoulder injury. Meanwhile, lock Harry Palmer, 20, will not feature until November after undergoing a knee operation. &#8220;Unfortunately, Emeka&#8217;s shoulder injury is complex and hasn&#8217;t recovered as we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45315,"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\/45314"}],"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=45314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45316,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45314\/revisions\/45316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}