SPRINGBOKS: Accolades keep coming for Boks after their World Cup victory By Yanga Sibembe
The South African senior men’s rugby team capped a brilliant year, in which they became the first team to win the Rugby Championship and the Rugby World Cup, by scooping up three major prizes at the World Rugby Awards.
Heyneke Meyer, who was coach at the time, stepped down shortly after that World Cup and was replaced by Allister Coetzee. Du Toit, too, has faced struggles over the past few years, only to rise like a phoenix akin to the Boks. But a ground-breaking surgery enabled him to go to England in 2015. His father donated the tendons his son needed to have any hope of making it to the World Cup. And so it was that Du Toit recovered to make Meyer’s squad.As it happened Du Toit’s debut game as flanker was the match in which South Africa suffered their most embarrassing loss,defeat at the hands of Japan. Meyer was vilified for his experiment, and so too Du Toit for his performance.
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