{"id":4973,"date":"2023-01-22T21:09:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T21:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/freddie-burns-leicester-tigers-fly-half-to-join-super-rugby-side-highlanders\/"},"modified":"2023-01-22T21:09:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T21:09:32","slug":"freddie-burns-leicester-tigers-fly-half-to-join-super-rugby-side-highlanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/freddie-burns-leicester-tigers-fly-half-to-join-super-rugby-side-highlanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Freddie Burns: Leicester Tigers fly-half to join Super Rugby side Highlanders"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Freddie Burns’ last-minute drop-goal secured a 15-12 victory for Leicester over Saracens in last season’s Premiership final at Twickenham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Freddie Burns, Leicester’s match-winner in last season’s Premiership final, will leave the club in February to join New Zealand-based Highlanders.<\/span><\/p>\n

Leicester said they had agreed for the former England international, 32, to be released early from his contract.<\/span><\/p>\n

“At this stage in my career, the opportunity was one I saw as too good to turn down,” <\/span>said Burns.<\/span>external-link<\/title><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Burns has made 114 appearances in two spells with Leicester, initially joining in 2014 from Gloucester and leaving for Bath three years later.<\/span><\/p>\n

After time playing in Japan, he <\/span>returned to Welford Road in the summer of 2021,<\/span><\/a> with the highlight of his second stint with Tigers being the drop-goal that ended Leicester’s nine-year wait for a league title.<\/span><\/p>\n

Burns added: “My return to this club was unbelievable – to be a part of a group like this with players who are so tight and committed to one another.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The way it has played out exceeded anything I could have dreamed of happening.<\/span><\/p>\n

“To have had the moments we have had together in the past few seasons, not just the final win, has been like a dream and something I will never, ever forget.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Freddie Burns’ last-minute drop-goal secured a 15-12 victory for Leicester over Saracens in last season’s Premiership final at Twickenham Freddie Burns, Leicester’s match-winner in last season’s Premiership final, will leave the club in February to join New Zealand-based Highlanders. Leicester said they had agreed for the former England international, 32, to be released early from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973"}],"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=4973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4975,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions\/4975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}