South African Rugby Captain Francois

3 victor matfield returned as captain in june 2014 after jean de villiers was injured.

South african rugby captain francois.

Invictus was released in the united states on december 11 2009. Freeman and damon play the south african president nelson mandela and françois pienaar respectively. Inspirational siya kolisi dedicates win to people of south africa. Pienaar debuted as captain in 1993 and held the position for all of his 29 test international matches a south african record.

2 felix and morné du plessis are the only father son combination who captained south africa. In 2018 kolisi was appointed captain of the springboks becoming the first black man to hold the position and. He was named international player of the year in 1994 by rugby world magazine and rugby personality of the year by britain s union writers club. He generally plays as a flanker.

He is best known for leading south africa to victory in the 1995 rugby world cup after being dropped from the springbok team in 1996 pienaar went on to a career with. Also a lawyer pienaar in 1995 led the transvaal provincial players in a strike which helped transform rugby from an. He is listed as captain number 12 on the south african rugby union s website. 1 theo pienaar was selected as captain for the tour but never played.

He played flanker for south africa the springboks from 1993 until 1996 winning 29 international caps all of them as captain. Jacobus francois pienaar born 2 january 1967 is a retired south african rugby union player. The 1995 rugby world cup was the third rugby world cup it was hosted and won by south africa and was the first rugby world cup in which every match was held in one country. François was the captain of the south africa rugby union team the springboks.

Francois pienaar says springboks 2019 win is bigger than his team s 1995 victory rugby world cup final. Siyamthanda kolisi born 16 june 1991 is a south african professional rugby union player who currently captains the south africa national team and also plays club rugby for the stormers in super rugby and western province in the currie cup. Rugby world cup final. South african rugby team captain francois pienaar r is congratulated by south african president nelson mandela l after south africa won the rugby world cup final against new zealand 24 june.