A South African teenager who was brutally tackled during a high school rugby game was left unconscious and suffering head trauma following the sickening tackle.Jacques Burger, a retired Namibian rugby union loose forward, shared the horrific footage from a Monument Boys versus Paarl Boys game.The footage has already viewed more than 66,000 times on A South African teenager who was brutally tackled during a high school rugby game was left unconscious and suffering head trauma following the sickening tackleThe horrific footage was shared on Twitter and has already been viewed more than 66,000 timesJacques Burger, a retired Namibian rugby union loose forward, shared the horrific footage from a Monument Boys versus Paarl Boys gameBurger was slammed by his followers for sharing the video. Waking up on match day full of nerves and energy and that tight feeling in your stomach.
Jacques Burger is one of the most celebrated Namibian internationals, having won 37 Test caps and playing in the 2007, 2011 and 2015 World Cups. Burger is probably only going to get the one chance.
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Burger’s specialist in Britain advised against taking the risk – “understandably so” according to the rugged Namibian flanker – but, undeterred, he travelled to South Africa, where another specialist was willing to try. Jacques Burger, a retired Namibian rugby union loose forward, shared the horrific footage from a Monument Boys versus Paarl Boys game.
Of course I want the boys to keep winning all the time but it dents your confidence a little bit when they keep winning without you. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. “At first I had to keep myself away from the club on match day, just being there was too painful and hard. On the most recent # LooseHeadz podcast in association with Talking Rugby Union, we caught up with Jacques Burger, arguably the biggest hitter rugby has ever seen! In rugby, as in all competitive team sports, one player’s injury can often be another player’s blessing in disguise.
That’s a major distraction and I have also tried to keep busy organising my farm back home in Stampriet in Namibia.
He wrote a letter to the club and to his team mates, and the rest is history.
“I still get days when I curse – but then you go to work in the gym and feel better about life and on other days it starts to feel good again. He took his place among the hard men in the Aviva Premiership when Brendan Venter brought him to England in 2009 and he was Saracens’ Player of the Year in 2011. In those big games you can live with the pain because after about 10 minutes everything else was hurting so it was just part of the picture. Now 29, he emerged from the rugby backwater of Namibia and was voted one of the top five players of the 2011 World Cup. He knows it may take two years or more to complete his comeback. For what it's worth, watching this makes me physically sick,' he posted.Another retired rugby player, Cameron Pierce, said it should not be posted. To return too soon would be disastrous.
Namibia captain Jacques Burger will put his battered body through one last World Cup knowing that the majority of players participating in England 2015 will be carrying some form of injury. It’s busy but I do try to switch off. But on a day-to-day basis there was no way I could continue. To straighten it and redistribute the pressure through the joint, surgeons sawed out a V-shaped wedge of bone from his tibia. The footage has … Jacques Burger: Big Hits and Broken Noses . Serena Williams keeps title hopes alive with battling victory over Sloane Stephens Burger has a proud history of overcoming adversity. However, his story is very much that of the underdog. in the House of CommonsDuncan Bannatyne's wife slams 'luxury' Italian hotel as 'disgusting'Crashed Chinese fighter jet seen engulfed in flamesRussia: Dry dock hits ships as winds from Typhoon Maysak move itFour-year-old surfing sensation smoothly rides the waves in BrazilTourist in India shouts 'nobody has corona it doesn't exist'Critic says Netflix deal is biggest exploitation of Royal familyRoyal critics: Harry looking unhappy and Meghan an average actressLatest figures and key dates in ongoing Brexit processChilling moment police search flat where double killer stored bodiesTelling it like it is!