{"id":213985,"date":"2025-06-25T19:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T19:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/213985\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T19:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T19:55:13","slug":"volavola-to-leave-leicester-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/213985\/","title":{"rendered":"Volavola to leave Leicester Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestertigers.com\/player\/ben-volavola\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Volavola<\/a> will leave Leicester Tigers in the summer after one season with the club.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old joined in August, on the eve of the 24\/25 campaign getting underway, after stints with Super Rugby side the NSW Waratahs and in France with Racing 92, Perpignan, and Agen.<\/p>\n<p>He made ten appearances this season, including seven off the bench in the club&#8217;s Gallagher Premiership run to the Premiership Final, and scored 25 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Volavola, General Manager Richard Wilks said: &#8220;Ben Volavola is one of the good guys, one of the best; from a chance meeting with Michael [Cheika] in Paris to jumping on a plane to Portugal to join the squad for pre-season camp, with no guarantee of a contract, he has been brilliant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Always smiling and always happy to help others and the team, he has been selfless and contributed hugely behind the scenes this season. A player rarely makes such a significant impact in such a short space of time, especially when their season was hampered by a not insignificant injury, but Ben has done that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were all delighted to welcome him back to the matchday squad for The Run In,\u00a0and his performance against Sale Sharks in the play-off game speaks for itself.\u00a0I wish Ben and his family all the very best on their next move, and I hope we will see him back at a game in the future; he will always be welcome.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Volavola will leave Leicester Tigers in the summer after one season with the club. The 34-year-old joined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-213985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114745765182179249","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}