He retired from international rugby and headed to Japan to play for Suntory Sungoliath.Meyer coaxed Du Preez back into Springboks action in 2013 but a knee injury sidelined him again in 2014 and almost stopped him going to this World Cup.After being selected in August, Du Preez shocked many with his candid answer that he might not make it. To the delight of his Springbok fans July 4, 2014. Published on August 9, 2020. 2. Current coach Heyneke Meyer has built his entire campaign around the player he regards as “the best in the world.”Meyer plucked Du Preez out of the junior ranks and gave him his first start in South Africa’s Currie Cup competition when he was just 19.A Junior World Cup winner a year later, he was invited to the Springbok trials in 2003, but failed to make the final squad. Cape Town – NINE things you may not know about new Springbok captain Fourie du Preez. He represented South Africa between 2004 and 2015, winning 76 caps, playing in three Rugby World Cup tournaments, and winning the 2007 competition. 1. Cape Town – NINE things you may not know about new Springbok captain Fourie du Preez. He never believed what the critics said and if we had struggled he always believed we could get back on top. His childhood Saturday afternoons at Loftus were about watching the Bulls‚ but more specifically studying Van der Westhuizen in full flow.There was no better role model for an aspiring scrumhalf‚ and Du Preez only had to walk across the road from Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (Affies) to see his idol. Those two seasons were great because I learnt so much from him towards the end of his career.”Both were scrumhalf geniuses‚ but in slightly different ways. Petrus Fourie du Preez is a South African former professional rugby union player. But Du Preez was also nurtured for many years by Heyneke Meyer, … Du Preez has won the IRB u/21 World Cup in 2002, the Currie Cup final three times ('03, '04 & '09 having been withdrawn from Currie Cup action in '06 by the then Springbok coach In 2009, Du Preez was voted SA Rugby Player of the year by the South African Rugby Football Union for a second time.Du Preez was selected for the second time for South Africa in the Du Preez had his injured shoulder operated on late in 2011, and used most of 2012 to fully recover.
You can’t easily buy that kind of access.Du Preez‚ even as a teenager‚ was astute enough to understand his good fortune at seeing one of the greats of the game at close range regularly. He was a fighter.” This file photo taken on November 8, 2003 at Telstra Dome Stadium in Melbourne shows South African scrum-half Joost van der Westhuizen (L) leaving the field at the end of the Rugby World Cup quarter-final match between New Zealand and South Africa. He was nominated for IRB player of the year as well. According to Meyer, Du Preez “understands what I want, he knows how I think.”The coach has preached a game plan true to South African strengths: a strong setpiece, a dominant forward pack with a halfback running the show.Du Preez the stickler for detail is precisely the man to run that show for Meyer.As it is his last World Cup, Du Preez has set his eyes on leading the Springboks to glory and will lead from the front. Van der Westhuizen was more athletic and attacking‚ Du Preez more tactical.“I wanted to follow in his footsteps but I also knew that he was a different athlete to me‚ so I studied other scrumhalves and took the best out of their games and tried to copy that and create my own style‚” Du Preez said.“But Joost was the benchmark‚ and whenever I was compared to Joost by someone‚ I took that as a huge compliment because he was the best of his era. März 1982 in Pretoria) ist ein südafrikanischer Rugby-Union-Spieler, der als Gedrängehalb für die südafrikanische Nationalmannschaft, im Currie Cup für die Blue Bulls und im Super 14 für die Bulls spielt. 4. Du Preez cites his father, a former No 8 for the Bulls, as his biggest influence. Medical staff had cleared him, but in his own mind he was not 100 percent.Brutally honest at times, always expecting a high standard, the Du Preez style will not be extravagant. They grew up a generation and a few kilometres apart‚ but Joost van der Westhuizen and Fourie du Preez are bound together through rugby and the passing of a torch.Van der Westhuizen‚ who died on Monday at the age of 45 after a six-year struggle against motor neuron disease (MND)‚ was first Du Preez’s hero and later his mentor at the Blue Bulls.The two are linked‚ not so much by a deep personal bond‚ but by their brilliance as scrumhalves for the Bulls and the Springboks. 1. © 2020 Arena Holdings (Pty) Ltd. All rights reserved. If the players follow, it will be hard to stop them.Listen to the story of Cyril Ramaphosa's rise to presidential power, narrated by our very own Alec Hogg.Everything from investing like Warren Buffett to the Audiobiography of Cyril Ramaphosa.Subscribe to our Newsletter to get daily updates on local affairs, with a global context. His father played No 8 for the Bulls.
3. Du Preez handed further injury blow Springbok international, Fourie du Preez, says the news of him being out for the remainder of the year, due to an ankle surgery, has come as a tough blow. He’s the nephew of Springbok great Frik du Preez. They grew up a generation and a few kilometres apart‚ but Joost van der Westhuizen and Fourie du Preez are bound together through rugby and the passing of a torch. The days of having a succession plan or continuity at the Bulls where you bring someone in from outside who is not coaching are long gone.‘I think everyone has learned that part of the plan of being the director of rugby here and part of the board are saying that we need to have a proper succession plan. Son of Hercules du Preez, d5e1 and Hester Petronella du Preez, SV2b5c4d9 Husband of Maria Emerentia Meyer, a2b3c6d1e4 and Hester Wilhelmina du Preez, b4c1 Father of Susanna Magdalena Fourie Brother of Catharina Elizabeth Lategan, b4c1d5e1f7; Hercules Salomon du Preez, e1f8; Ignatius Petrus du Preez; Michiel Du Preez; Susanna Magdalena Wassermann and 2 others; Half brother of …