Former Wales winger Louis Rees-Zammit says he is had “a lot of interest” and hopes to discover a new membership “next week” after leaving the NFL and returning to rugby.
Rees-Zammit signed an energetic roster take care of the Jacksonville Jaguars for the 2025 season after being a part of their apply squad for the 2024 season and travelled to London for the video games in opposition to the Chicago Bears and New England
Patriots in October.
The 24-year-old introduced in January 2024 that he would retire from rugby union with the intention to pursue his dream of enjoying within the NFL through its Worldwide Participant Pathway Program.
However he has now ended his American soccer journey and is heading in the right direction to signal for a rugby membership inside the subsequent seven to 10 days.
“I can’t name teams, but I’ve had a load of interest, which is unbelievable. I’m very grateful for that,” Rees-Zammit advised Sky Sports activities Information.
“The season begins fairly quickly. So it is about discovering the fitting workforce for me by way of location, by way of how fast I’ve acquired to get into camp. And since the season’s proper across the nook, so all of these items are going to occur, are going to occur fairly sharpish.
“Me and my brother are going through negotiations and seeing teams interested, which is amazing. We should find out in the next week or so.”
Rees-Zammit made his debut in 2020 and gained the Six Nations Championship with Wales the next yr.
He made 32 appearances for his nation, scoring 14 tries, enjoying his final match for Wales on the 2023 Rugby World Cup, after they misplaced to Argentina within the quarter-finals.
“I’ve learned so much here [in the NFL] about my body and the way we’ve trained out here is very much different to the way we kind of trained in rugby and I think I can bring many different skills that I’ve now got than I did 18 months ago,” defined Rees-Zammit.
“Playing for my country is the pinnacle and it’s one that I absolutely love doing.
“I managed to play 32 occasions for my nation in three, 4 years. I have to discover a workforce. As soon as we discover a workforce, get into good type and hopefully come Autumn Internationals, see the place choice is.
“It’s something that I’m really looking forward to and I really want to play for my country again.”
His return to the game comes with Wales at a low ebb, having not too long ago ended an 18-match shedding run and with a brand new head coach, Steve Tandy, to take cost on the finish of August.
He mentioned: “Obviously it hasn’t been great over the past couple of years and that’s for sure. But now the new coaching staff will come in. Those players will be very excited. We’ve got a very young squad. I think that time in Japan was time for those young players to kind of gel together and kind of get a feel of how one another plays.
“The Autumn Internationals are across the nook in a few months. So I feel with the brand new teaching employees coming in and all of the gamers are going to be completely buzzing that we have come off a win. It is nearly constructing momentum.”
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Rees-Zammit performed in 4 totally different positions in his Kansas Metropolis Chiefs debut!
Andy Farrell’s British and Irish Lions’ beginning XV for the opening match in opposition to Australia on this summer season’s tour was the primary Take a look at facet since 1896 to not embrace a single Welshman.
“Obviously the Lions is absolutely massive and I was very fortunate to do that on the last tour to South Africa,” mentioned Rees-Zammit, who has an eye fixed on being included within the subsequent tour to New Zealand in 2029.
“Coming back to rugby, every player wants to play for their country and then go on to play for the British and Irish Lions.”
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Sky Sports activities will completely present the 2025 British and Irish Lions tour of Australia, with all three Checks in opposition to the Wallabies and 7 tour matches to be proven completely reside.
