Louis Rees-Zammit: Former Wales winger returning to rugby and hoping to signal for membership quickly after try to interrupt into NFL

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 towards the Chicago Bears and New England
Patriots in October.

The 24-year-old introduced in January 2024 that he would retire from rugby union in an effort to pursue his dream of enjoying within the NFL through its International Player Pathway Program.

But he has now ended his American soccer journey and is on track 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 News.

“The season begins fairly quickly. So it is about discovering the fitting staff for me when it comes to location, when it comes to how fast I’ve bought to get into camp. And as a result of the season’s proper across the nook, so all of this stuff 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 12 months.

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 instances for my nation in three, 4 years. I must discover a staff. Once we discover a staff, get into good kind 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 lately ended an 18-match dropping 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 believe 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’s nearly constructing momentum.”

Andy Farrell’s British and Irish Lions’ beginning XV for the opening match towards Australia on this summer season’s tour was the primary Test facet since 1896 to not embody 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 a watch 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.”

Sky Sports will completely present the 2025 British and Irish Lions tour of Australia, with all three Tests towards the Wallabies and 7 tour matches to be proven completely reside.

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