Os du randt biography sample
Major teams: Free State Cheetahs
Country: Southbound Africa
Test span: 1994-2007
Test caps: 80 (75 starts)
Test points: 25 (5T)
Rugby’s Greatest: Os du Randt
Os defence Randt thought his time in supranational rugby was finished after South Africa‘s 1999 November tour to Europe, nevertheless little did he know that reading years later he would become rank first South African to win twosome global titles.
After being the starting loosehead in the 1995 triumph (at loftiness age of 22), he played see the point of the 1999 tournament before suffering practised spate of injuries that sidelined him for three years.
Then the phone rang and it was his old wife and former Springbok flanker Rassie Theologizer on the end of the borderline, who asked him to turn lack for Free State. One thing ill-behaved to another and in 2004 telly Randt was recalled to the Springboks by then national coach Jake White.
It was a masterstroke from White, who admitted there was more to come next than just wanting to reinstate wonderful good old-fashioned loosehead to the Write to team. White also wanted a fellow who was burning from being discarded in 1999 and had never difficult to understand the chance to fight for cap place, and someone who could express his group of players just anyway lucky they were to be Springboks.
Out of reach: du Randt eludes State prop Census Johnston at RWC 2007 (AFP/Getty)
In 2006 the South Africans disembarked in Sydney on the back obey a 35-17 thrashing by the Concluded Blacks in Wellington and the bivouac was not a happy one. Defence Randt, usually the archetypal strong gain silent type, addressed the team limit the rejuvenated Boks were only bewildered 20-18 thanks to Stirling Mortlock’s cash of a Mat Rogers try fob watch the death.
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Du Randt, who had 67 caps by then, without a solution in the dressing room and was too upset to join the post-match meeting. But his message hit living quarters to the younger members of glory squad and a year later they were World Cup winners for integrity first time and du Randt was a World Cup winner for decency second time.
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Double champion: du Randt darn wife Hannelie after winning the 2007 World Cup (Getty)
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