First black Springbok captain: Siya Kolisi goes down memory lane

First black Springbok captain: Siya Kolisi took a trip down memory lane as he recalled the day he became the captain of the Springboks.

took a trip down memory lane and opened up about having been taken by surprise in 2018 by rugby coach, Johan ‘Rassie’ Erasmus when he was made the captain of the Springboks.Siya Kolisi became the official Springbok captain on 28 May 2018. He made history as the national team’s first black captain in its 126-year history.

Siya Kolisi shared that in his last conversation with Johan ‘Rassie’ Erasmus, before he was made captain, he had been reprimanded after he and one of his teammates had accidentally butt-dialed the Stomers coach John Dobson aka Dobbo, during a night out. He now looks back and laughs at the things he used to do.“He comes back and makes me captain. I was really shocked, but he has also known me for a very long time. He has seen me through the good and the bad [times].

“There has never been a chapter of my life that I’ve done by myself. I have always had people around me – people who believed in me,” the captain of the Springboks concluded. Earlier this year, Kolisi announced that he will be relocating to France to join the French rugby club, Racing 92. He will be joining the team right after the Rugby World Cup 2023 games.

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