{"id":330958,"date":"2025-08-09T16:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330958\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T16:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:21:15","slug":"montpellier-hold-onto-france-international-baptiste-erdocio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330958\/","title":{"rendered":"Montpellier hold onto France international Baptiste Erdocio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Montpellier have announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/france\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France<\/a> prop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/baptiste-erdocio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baptiste Erdocio<\/a> has signed a contract extension through to 2029, securing the 25-year-old\u2019s future a year before his previous deal was due to expire.<\/p>\n<p>Erdocio\u2019s form had attracted interest from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/bayonne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bayonne<\/a> and Clermont, but the Basque-born front-rower has committed his long-term future to the H\u00e9rault club.<\/p>\n<p>A product of Bidart Union Club and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/biarritz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biarritz<\/a> academy, Erdocio made his professional debut for BO in 2021 before joining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/montpellier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Montpellier<\/a> in the summer of 2023. He has since established himself as a regular in the matchday squad, making 20 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/top-14\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Top 14<\/a> appearances last season \u2014 14 of them starts \u2014 and scoring one try.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Bidart on March 13, 2000, the 115kg, 1.75m prop can also operate at hooker. His strong club form earned him a first France call-up for the tour of New Zealand, where he started two of the three Tests.<\/p>\n<p>Renowned for his mobility and ball-carrying ability, Erdocio ranks third among Top 14 front-rowers for tackle completion rate this season.<\/p>\n<p>Montpellier, who finished ninth last term, open their new Top 14 campaign at home to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/toulon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toulon<\/a> on September 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montpellier have announced that France prop Baptiste Erdocio has signed a contract extension through to 2029, securing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-330958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114999727379387423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330958","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=330958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}