Rees-zammit Aiming To Be 'best In The World' - Lam

Louis Rees-Zammit wants to go "the champion backmost 3 subordinate successful nan world" according to caller leader Pat Lam.

The 24-year-old has opted to join Lam's Bristol Bears successful England's Prem Rugby aft leaving nan NFL.

The British and Irish Lion, who has won 32 caps for Wales, has returned to rugby national aft 20 months distant trying to break into American football.

Rees-Zammit spent clip connected nan training squads of nan Kansas City Chiefs and Jacksonville Jaguars aft joining nan NFL's world subordinate pathway successful January 2024, but did not play successful a regular play game.

He returns to his original athletics having antecedently played 77 times for Gloucester aft breaking into nan Prem club's broadside astatine nan property of 18.

"He wants to get backmost into rugby and beryllium nan champion backmost 3 subordinate successful nan world, and I emotion that," Lam told BBC Radio Wales' Breakfast programme.

"I conscionable want to cognize what motivates players. Everyone thinks it's easy, you get paid to play a crippled we love.

"But yet I conscionable want to cognize what gets guys retired of furniture to spell and put their bodies connected nan statement and do what we do.

"That dream is really important, erstwhile guys talk astir 'I conscionable want to beryllium a amended rugby player' it's astir apt not nan 1 I'm looking for.

"I'm looking for guys pinch large dreams and he surely has that."

Before moving to nan United States past twelvemonth Rees-Zammit had been linked pinch a move to a nine successful France's Top 14.

The winger - who scored 42 tries successful his 77 games for Gloucester and 14 tries successful 32 Tests pinch Wales - is wide regarded arsenic 1 of nan standout attacking threats successful European rugby.

Lam says Rees-Zammit had a number of offers, immoderate which were much lucrative than what he was being offered astatine Ashton Gate.

"What I really enjoyed astir nan full point is that he could person gone anyplace for tons of money," Lam said.

"I cognize location was large money retired location and I'd opportunity our connection is obscurity adjacent what group mightiness deliberation it is.

"What I liked astir that is that near it purely connected him to determine if he wanted money.

"He astir apt had 4 aliases 5 different offers that he could take, but if he wanted a bully rugby programme and a style of rugby that gets him backmost into nan crippled and evidently gives him nan champion chance to play for Wales again, which is important to him, but playing bully rugby for us, that was nan main thing."