Cecil Afrika

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Cecil Afrika
Rugby union career

Full name	Cecil Sebastian Afrika
Date of birth	(1988-03-03) March 3, 1988
Place of birth	Port Elizabeth
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	70 kg (11 st)
Playing career
Position	Flyhalf
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2006 2008	Schoolboys S. Africa U-20
Sevens national teams
Years	Club / team		Comps
2009–	South Africa		IRB 7s

Cecil Afrika (born 3 March 1988 in Port Elizabeth) is a South African rugby union player. He is currently part of the South African sevens team where he plays at Flyhalf.

Career

Afrika represented the South African Schoolboys in 2006. He was part of the South African under-20 squad in the 2008 IRB Junior World Championship that reached the third place playoffs.

Afrika made his debut for the South African sevens team during the Dubai leg of the 2009–10 IRB Sevens World Series. During the Las Vegas leg of the 2009–10 IRB Sevens World Series he was carried off the field on a stretcher after he was injured during the Plate Final match against Fiji, South Africa won 12-7. He was part of the sevens team that took Bronze at the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, India in October.

Afrika missed out on the 2011 Wellington Sevens because of a broken jaw he suffered during the South African leg of the IRB Sevens Series.^[1]^[2] He was the top try and point-scorer for the 2010–11 IRB Sevens World Series; He scored 40 tries throughout the series with a total of 385 points.^[3] In 2011 he won the IRB International Sevens Player of the Year award.

In 2013, he was included in the squad for the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens:^[4]

References

↑ http://www.universalsports.com/news-blogs/article/newsid=529054.html
↑ http://www.springboksupporter.co.za/News/SARU/Injured-Afrika-out-for-three-months.aspx
↑ http://www.irbsevens.com/news/newsid=2043059.html#cecil+afrika+tops+sevens+scoring+charts
↑ "Brown to command Springbok Sevens for Mission Moscow". South African Rugby Union. 20 June 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2013.

External links

Squads

v t e S.A. Sevens – 2013–14 IRB Sevens World Series

Squad	Cecil Afrika Kyle Brown Stephan Dippenaar Chris Dry Branco du Preez Justin Geduld Cornal Hendricks Frankie Horne Steven Hunt Werner Kok Cheslin Kolbe Sampie Mastriet Mark Richards Seabelo Senatla Kwagga Smith Phillip Snyman Rosco Speckman Jamba Ulengo

Coach	Neil Powell

v t e S.A. Sevens – 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens

Squad	Cecil Afrika Rayno Benjamin Kyle Brown Stephan Dippenaar Chris Dry Branco du Preez Cornal Hendricks Cheslin Kolbe Sampie Mastriet Seabelo Senatla Sibusiso Sithole Philip Snyman

Coach	Paul Treu

Persondata
Name	Afrika, Cecil
Alternative names
Short description	Rugby union player
Date of birth	3 March 1988
Place of birth	Port Elizabeth
Date of death
Place of death

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