Sam Hollingsworth: An Englishman in Spain's División de Honor | Rugby TTL Podcast

Sam Hollingsworth on swapping the RFU Championship for Spain's División de Honor — Nottingham to VRAC Valladolid, the ACL injury, and what English players should know about Spanish rugby.In this episode: leaving the English system; standard of the División de Honor; the ACL comeback; advice for imports.Subscribe on YouTube (youtube.com/@RugbyTTL) · Spotify · Apple Podcasts · rugbyttl.com. ⏱ Add chapters from 00:00.00:00 Career Turning Point00:03 Meet Sam Hollingsworth02:16 Nottingham and the Championship03:10 Climbing the Leagues05:48 COVID and Breaking Through07:41 ACL Injury Breakdown09:54 Rehab and the Mental Battle12:59 Choosing Spain — The Offers16:09 Spain Level Comparison19:00 League Consistency Issues20:37 The ABC Rule and Squad Building23:10 U23 Pathway Levels25:35 Loans vs Development26:39 Spanish Rugby Momentum27:30 Copa Del Rey Atmosphere29:15 Spanish Celebrations29:49 Learning Spanish On-Field32:49 Family Multilingual Life34:20 Coaching Vision Online37:51 Video Analysis Mindset42:04 Move to Spain Advice43:02 Final Wrap and Plugs━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🏉 FOLLOW SAM HOLLINGSWORTH━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📸 Coached by Sam (Instagram): https://www.instagram.com/_coachedbysam💼 LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sam-hollingsworth-7b18791a9━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📲 FOLLOW RUGBY THROUGH THE LEAGUES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔔 Subscribe for more interviews from grassroots, tier 2 and emerging rugby nations across the global rugby pyramid🔗 All links: https://linktr.ee/rugbyttl📸 Instagram: @rugby.ttlpod━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🏷 ABOUT THE PODCAST━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Rugby Through The Leagues tells the stories you don't hear on mainstream rugby coverage — players, coaches and clubs from across the global rugby pyramid. From the Championship and National Leagues in England to División de Honor in Spain, Top 14 academies, Major League Rugby, and every emerging nation pushing for Tier 1 status.#RugbyTTL #SpanishRugby #VRAC #DivisionDeHonor #ChampionshipRugby #ACLRecovery