South African Rugby Captain Francois

Freeman and damon play the south african president nelson mandela and françois pienaar respectively.

South african rugby captain francois.

1 theo pienaar was selected as captain for the tour but never played. 3 victor matfield returned as captain in june 2014 after jean de villiers was injured. Rugby world cup final. 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.

Jacobus francois pienaar born 2 january 1967 is a retired south african rugby union player. The world cup was the first major sporting event to take place in south africa following the end of apartheid it was also the first world cup in which south africa was allowed to compete. 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. He generally plays as a flanker.

Francois pienaar captain of the 1995 rugby world cup winners recalls how nelson mandela used sport to heal a nation smithinamerica sun 8 dec 2013 01 00 est first published on sun 8 dec 2013 01. François was the captain of the south africa rugby union team the springboks. Inspirational siya kolisi dedicates win to people of south africa. The international rugby football.

Invictus was released in the united states on december 11 2009. 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. 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. In 2018 kolisi was appointed captain of the springboks becoming the first black man to hold the position and.

He played flanker for south africa the springboks from 1993 until 1996 winning 29 international caps all of them as captain. Francois pienaar says springboks 2019 win is bigger than his team s 1995 victory rugby world cup final. 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.