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born 1991 South Africa
Eben Etzebeth (born 29 October 1991) is a South African professional rugby union player who currently plays for the Sharks in the United Rugby Championship and the South Africa national team.
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When you’re young, you’re desperate to prove yourself and savour every moment in that Springbok jersey.
As you gain more experience, you gain a greater appreciation for the flow of the game.
I’m a South African through and through, and it will always be my home.
As you get older, you start to wonder when the journey will end. You go out there and give it everything you have.
We started to put our bodies on the line, and we started to get the results.
The Sharks have impressed me with the way they have gone about things on and off the field, so it wasn’t a hard decision to sign with them.
A lot of people over here in France wrote us off
We started to talk about what we needed to do in the second game, about how we were going to fix things. It was do or die.
That’s when we came together as players and said, right, how do we fix this? We gained a lot of respect for each other during that period.
There’s a plan in place to help the players realise their potential on and off the pitch
You get an idea of the referees and what they’re looking for. While you play on the edge, you don’t push it too far
I’ve learnt a lot about myself during this two-and-half-year period in France
It was a massive game for us, in the context of the competition and in the context of our season.
If we lost that game and the series, we knew that we’d never have another chance in our careers to beat the Lions
France have been building steadily for the past few years, and have started to win consistently in 2022
When I came back from injury a few months ago, the club wasn’t in a great place, and there was no talk about playoffs and certainly no talk about trophies.
I’ve been speaking to guys like Siya, Bongi Mbonambi and Thomas du Toit over the past few months. It seems like the Sharks have big plans for the future, in terms of the franchise and the players.
So we put everything on the line in the second Test, and in the third, which was as intense as a World Cup final. It’s fair to say that we emerged with our reputations intact.