{"id":12439,"date":"2026-10-01T08:45:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catalansdragons.com\/news\/6-joueurs-des-dragons-a-la-coupe-du-monde\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T09:07:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T07:07:36","slug":"6-joueurs-des-dragons-a-la-coupe-du-monde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catalansdragons.com\/en\/brief\/6-joueurs-des-dragons-a-la-coupe-du-monde\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Dragons to play the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After having named an initial 40-man preliminiary squad, France head coach Laurent Frayssinous has announced this Thursday, October 1, the 23-man squad that will represent France at the 2026 Rugby League World Cup in Australia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>6 Catalans Dragons players have been included in the squad:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Guillermo Aispuro-Bichet<\/li>\n<li>Julian Bousquet<\/li>\n<li>Alrix Da Costa<\/li>\n<li>L\u00e9o Darr\u00e9latour<\/li>\n<li>Benjamin Garcia<\/li>\n<li>Romain Navarrete<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12437\" src=\"https:\/\/catalansdragons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/SELECTION-FRANCE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After having named an initial 40-man preliminiary squad, France head coach Laurent Frayssinous has announced this Thursday, October 1, the 23-man squad that will represent France at the 2026 Rugby League World Cup in Australia. &nbsp; 6 Catalans Dragons players have been included in the squad: Guillermo Aispuro-Bichet Julian Bousquet Alrix Da Costa L\u00e9o Darr\u00e9latour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":12450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brief","category-club"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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