Coenraad Breytenbach
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Born | Middelburg, Mpumalanga,South Africa | 10 November 1970||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Centre, scrum-half | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Five-eighth | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Coenraad Lodewyk Breytenbach(born 10 November 1970) is a South African formerrugby unionandrugby leaguefootballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He representedSouth Africaatrugby leaguein the2000 Rugby League World CupandRussiainrugby union.
Background
[edit]He was born inMiddelburg,South Africa.
Playing career
[edit]Breytenbach playedrugby unionfor the Northern TransvaalBlue Bullsand was tipped to eventually play for theSouth Africa(RU).[2]
Between1996and1998Breytenbach played for theNorthern Transvaal Bullsin theSuper 12competition.
In 2000, Breytenbach was part of theSouth Africansquad at theRugby League World Cup.He played in one match at five eighth, scoring a try againstTonga.[3]
In 2001 Breytenbach played for theBlue Bullsin theCurrie Cup.[4]
In 2002 he played in aEuropean Nations Cupmatch forRussia(RU) againstGeorgiaalong with two other South African born players, sparking a protest from Georgia.[2][5]
References
[edit]- ^Coenraad Breytenbachrugbyleagueproject.org
- ^abSouth Africans hit wrong noteThe Telegraph,6 March 2002
- ^Results & Fixtures Rugby League World CupArchived14 September 2014 at theWayback Machinebbc.co.uk
- ^Bulls could bully Leopard cubnews24,17 August 2001
- ^Coenraad Breytenbach International Statistics
- 1970 births
- Living people
- Blue Bulls players
- Bulls (rugby union) players
- Dual-code rugby internationals
- Rugby league five-eighths
- Rugby league players from Mpumalanga
- People from Middelburg, Mpumalanga
- Rugby union centres
- Rugby union players from Middelburg, Mpumalanga
- Rugby union scrum-halves
- Russia international rugby union players
- Russian rugby union players
- South Africa international rugby sevens players
- South Africa national rugby league team players
- South African rugby league players
- South African rugby union players