{"id":16183,"date":"2026-01-27T13:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=16183"},"modified":"2026-01-27T13:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:01:17","slug":"maro-itoje-jamie-george-says-england-will-rally-around-grieving-skipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=16183","title":{"rendered":"Maro Itoje: Jamie George says England will rally around grieving skipper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Club and country team-mate Jamie George says England will rally around captain Maro Itoje as he grieves the death of his mother.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Itoje missed a Six Nations launch event in Edinburgh on Monday, having travelled to Nigeria for the funeral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">George&#8217;s own mother died during the 2024 Six Nations after being diagnosed with lung cancer a few weeks before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s horrible news, I&#8217;ve been through it myself,&#8221; said George, who plays alongside Itoje at Saracens and has toured with him three times for the British and Irish Lions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a hugely challenging time for him and a hugely challenging time for his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The way he has carried himself over the last few months has been incredibly impressive. The important thing is that he&#8217;s been given enough space to mourn and grieve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The way he has kept showing up and put the team first in a lot of ways has been incredible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know he&#8217;ll be wanting to do his family proud over the next short period of time. We&#8217;re all very proud of him and will be there for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Maro #Itoje #Jamie #George #England #rally #grieving #skipper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Club and country team-mate Jam&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}