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\u201cDie voordeel van werk as \u2019n lewensredder was om tyd in die swembad deur te bring en fiksheid te handhaaf totdat rugby heropen het,\u201d verduidelik hy. \u201cToe WP-klubs weer begin speel het, het ek weer by Albions aangesluit voordat ek vir twee volle seisoene na Hillies teruggekeer het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Roses United het hom toe genader. Alhoewel sy nuwe klub nie in 2024 vir die Sanlam Boland Top 12 gekwalifiseer het nie, was Young verbaas toe die Cavaliers-afrigter hom na ‘n oefening nooi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAfrigter Hawies het vir my ges\u00ea hy sou my kies vir sy Boland-uitnodigingspan om teen die Sanlam Boland Top 12-droomspan te speel. Ek was die enigste lid wat nie van \u2019n Top 12-klub afkomstig was nie. Ek het ge\u00eberd gevoel om vir die eerste keer in Boland-kleure te speel, selfs al was dit nie vir die amptelike Boland-span nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Terwyl hy as \u2019n drywer vir WeBuyCars gewerk het, het Young \u2019n deurslaggewende besluit in die gesig gestaar: om hom ten volle tot professionele rugby te verbind of \u2019n werkende semi-professionele speler te bly. \u201cEk het besluit dit is tyd om alles in te gaan.\u201d In Januarie het hy by F7 Sports Management aangesluit, bestuur deur die Wellingtonse agent Shafiek Mouton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Young vergelyk sy verhouding met Mouton met Jerry Maguire se spelersverhoudings in die Hollywood-fliek. \u201cShafiek het \u2019n belangrike rol gespeel sedert ek by F7 aangesluit het. Sonder hom sou dit nooit moontlik gewees het om hierdie punt as \u2019n professionele speler te bereik nie. Hy kyk voortdurend hoe dit met my gaan en adviseer my oor die doen en moenies van \u2019n professionele atleet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Naledi het sy amptelike debuut vir die Cavaliers op 12 April gemaak as \u2019n plaasvervanger in hul 52-3 SA Cup-oorwinning teen die Border Bulldogs. Die eerste wedstryd waarin hy begin het was \u2019n week later by Boland-stadion in die fenomenale oorwinning van 80-0 teen die Luiperds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die spoedvraat het nog nie sy eerste drie in swart en goud gedruk nie, maar glo hy sal hierdie droom in die Carling Currie Cup Premier Division verwesenlik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het nooit gedink my Boland-debuut sou so vinnig kom met soveel kompetisie op vleuel nie. Kompetisie bring egter my beste na vore. Ek is opgewonde oor die Currie Cup-geleentheid \u2013 die spelers sal groter en vinniger wees, maar ek kan aanpas. Noudat ek \u2019n professionele rugbyspeler vir Boland is, is dit waar ek hoort, en ek wil dit nie prysgee nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
En op die vraag as Blitsbok-afrigter Philip Snyman uiteindelik daardie langverwagte besluit neem? \u201cSedert 2019 is dit \u2019n droom om sewes vir my land te speel. Ek sou myself graag teen die bestes wou toets, maar vir nou is my fokus om Boland te help om sy plek as \u2019n reus van Suid-Afrikaanse rugby te bou,\u201d sluit Young af.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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