Voordat Ronald Brown sy opspraakwekkende rugbyspel op die w\u00eareldverhoog op skou gesit het, het hierdie Blitzbok, soos baie, \u2019n nederige begin gehad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hierdie 26-jarige Montagu-boorling is op \u2019n jong ouderdom aan rugby blootgestel deurdat sy familie tydens sy grootwordjare almal gaande oor klubrugby was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cToe ek nog \u2019n jong kind was, was my ma-hulle kranige ondersteuners van klubrugby in die dorp. Ons het elke naweek rugby gaan kyk. Namate ek ouer geword het, het ek ook vanselfsprekend in rugby begin belangstel. Later het ek selfs ook by die plaaslike klub betrokke geraak,\u201d verduidelik Brown Saterdagmiddag tydens \u2019n telefoniese onderhoud met Gazette<\/i>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Om presies te wees, het hy op vyfjarige ouderdom al begin rugby speel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cToe ek jonger was, het ek dit nie regtig so ernstig beskou nie. Maar toe ek in graad agt by die Ho\u00ebrskool Montagu kom, het ek besluit om nie net hard aan my akademie te werk nie, maar ook aan my rugby. Die rede hiervoor was omdat ek net voordat ek ho\u00ebrskool toe is, ek Boland-proewe gespeel het en amper die span gehaal het. Dit het my laat glo dat ek wel die potensiaal het om dalk eendag vir die \u2019Bokke te speel,\u201d vertel hy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
N\u00e1 \u2019n paar jaar en baie harde werk het Brown vir Boland uitgedraf. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy is in \u2019n toernooi waaraan Boland in Durban deelgeneem het, deur die Universiteit van Johannesburg (UJ) genader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHulle het my gevra om vir hulle rugby te speel en het my \u2019n volle beurs aangebied. Ek het nie twee keer gedink nie en onmiddellik die aanbod aanvaar. Ek het toe daar my graad in die onderwys voltooi.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tydens sy tyd by UJ het hy ook vir die Leeus se o.19- en o.21-span uitgedraf. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit was gedurende daardie tydperk by UJ wat een van die Blitzbokke se afrigters en werwers my in 2018 gevra het of ek by Blitzbokke sou wou aansluit, en of ek my 7\u2019s-loopbaan verder wil neem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brown het aan die einde van 2018 by die 7\u2019s-span op Stellenbosch aangesluit en saam met hulle begin oefen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het wel opgelet dat hy \u2019n aanhoudende pyn in die bors gehad het, maar aanvanklik het hy nie veel daarvan gedink nie omdat hy nie sy droom om \u2019n Springbokrugbyspeler te wees, wou prysgee nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie pyn het net nooit opgehou nie. Ek het maar pynpille gedrink, maar dit het ook nie veel gehelp nie. Ek het vroeg in 2019 \u2019n dokter geraadpleeg. Ek het \u2019n gewas in my bors gehad, wat later as limfoom gediagnoseer is. Ek het so baie vrae gehad, maar bowenal wou ek weet of ek weer sou kon rugby speel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
N\u00e1 ses maande van chemoterapie en \u2019n maand van bestraling was sy kanker in remissie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit was \u2019n baie moeilike tydperk toe ek deur al daai behandeling moes gaan. Maar omdat ek al my tyd by die huis moes deurbring, het dit ook gelei na \u2019n sterker band met my ouers, en dit het my meer tyd gegee om die Bybel te lees. Daar was natuurlik tye waar ek moed wou verloor, maar om my rugbydroom lewendig te hou, het ek altyd \u2019n bal by my gehad en my ouers het my altyd weer moed ingepraat. Dit was regtig \u2019n geestelik uitdagende tyd, maar ek het deurgedruk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy eerste wedstryd terug saam met die Blitzbokke was by die 2021- Olimpiese Spele in Kenia. Hy is later in Desember 2021 tydens \u2019n toernooi in Kanada as speler van die wedstryd aangewys \u2013 iets waaroor hy baie nederig en bedeesd praat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk is baie dankbaar om di\u00e9 trui aan te trek. Ek begin nou besef dat ek bekend is aan mense, en dit is iets wat ek op \u2019n positiewe manier wil gebruik. Ek wil graag my storie met ander jonges deel om hulle te motiveer en te laat besef dat dit moontlik is om jou drome te bewaarheid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk gaan binnekort begin om motiveringspraatjies vir jongmense te hou. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk wil aan di\u00e9 jongmense noem alles in die lewe verg moeite, harde werk en dissipline. Daar is geen kortpaadjies op die pad na sukses nie. Hou aan om groot te droom, en bly positief,\u201d verduidelik die Blitzbok oor die foon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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