{"id":3697,"date":"2021-11-19T10:44:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T23:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/?p=3697"},"modified":"2021-11-19T10:44:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T23:44:06","slug":"lalakai-foketi-selected-for-wallabies-v-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/2021\/11\/lalakai-foketi-selected-for-wallabies-v-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Lalakai Foketi selected for Wallabies v Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Manly Roo Lalakai Foketi has been selected for the Wallabies Test verses Wales on Sunday. \u00a0Lalakai (Roo 2006-2010), who plays in the centres, will make his debut from the bench.\u00a0Lalakai played U12 to U16 with the Roos before playing with Marlins Colts and Australia U20. Lalakai currently plays with the Waratahs.\u00a0Lalakai played with a very competitive Roos\u2019 team, which include Reece Hodge (Wallaby and Rebels) and Rory OConnor (Waratah).\u00a0The Foketi family have made an important contribution to the Roos club over a long period of time. Lalakai\u2019s younger brother, Beau, was also a Roo and his youngest brother, Carter, is a current U6 Roo. Their father Scott has coached Roos teams for over 15 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photos: Lalakai\u00a0chasing a kick by Reece Hodge, Lalakai 2007 and U20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cid1D02C57D-C2A5-4982-A108-6C10B9F09DAD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"956\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cid1D02C57D-C2A5-4982-A108-6C10B9F09DAD-956x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cid1D02C57D-C2A5-4982-A108-6C10B9F09DAD-956x1024.jpg 956w, https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cid1D02C57D-C2A5-4982-A108-6C10B9F09DAD-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cid1D02C57D-C2A5-4982-A108-6C10B9F09DAD-768x823.jpg 768w, https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cid1D02C57D-C2A5-4982-A108-6C10B9F09DAD-1434x1536.jpg 1434w, https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cid1D02C57D-C2A5-4982-A108-6C10B9F09DAD-1911x2048.jpg 1911w, https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cid1D02C57D-C2A5-4982-A108-6C10B9F09DAD.jpg 2014w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 956px) 100vw, 956px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cidC9D69E90-38E7-4452-B84F-900F4000C4FC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"452\" src=\"https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cidC9D69E90-38E7-4452-B84F-900F4000C4FC.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cidC9D69E90-38E7-4452-B84F-900F4000C4FC.jpg 678w, https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cidC9D69E90-38E7-4452-B84F-900F4000C4FC-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Manly Roo Lalakai Foketi has been selected for the Wallabies Test verses Wales on Sunday. \u00a0Lalakai (Roo 2006-2010), who plays in the centres, will make his debut from the bench.\u00a0Lalakai played U12 to U16 with the Roos before playing with Marlins Colts and Australia U20. Lalakai currently plays with the Waratahs.\u00a0Lalakai played with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":3693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3700,"href":"https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions\/3700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roosrugby.com.au\/rugbyclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}