DIE voorreg om die gesogte rugby w\u00eareld-beker se goue, 38 sentimeter ho\u00eb Webb Ellis-trofee van 4.5kg vas te hou, is min beskore, maar op Despatch is daar tw\u00e9\u00e9 sulke gelukkige mense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rassie Erasmus, \u2019n oud-Despatcher en afrigter van die Springbokke, die 2019 rugby w\u00eareldbeker rugbykampioene is die man wat dit die mees onlangse kon doen, die ander een is Leon Ferreira.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leon vertel hoe dit gebeur het dat hy di\u00e9 gesogte beker aan sy sater- en nimf-ore kon vashou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het saam met die 1995 Springbokke uit daardie beker gedrink! Dit was na hulle 15-12 oorwinning oor Nieu-Seeland op Ellispark!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leon was in die 1995-gouebekerjaar die bagasiemeester van di\u00e9 Springbok-span.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die aanloop na di\u00e9 pos het begin toe hy in die 1980\u2019s skakelbeampte was van die nasionale spanne wat teen OP-spanne gespeel het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit het gevolglik vir hom die deur oopgemaak as bagasiemeester van internasionale spanne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy eerste pos as bagasiemeester was vir die Suidsee-eilande se span wat in Suid-Afrika getoer het, daarna vir die SARU 100-jaar vieringe se 126 gaste wat onder meer verskillende rugbypresidente en oud- kapteins ingesluit het. In 1992 was Leon die bagasiemeester van die Wallabies tydens hul rugbytoer in Suid-Afrika.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cVir die 1995 w\u00eareldbeker het die Wallabies my gevra om w\u00e9\u00e9r hul bagasiemeester te wees. Dit het nie gerealiseer nie en ek is aangewys as die Bokke se bagasiemeester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit was ses weke waarin in ek bevoorreg was om elke dag in die Springbokke se geselskap te kon wees. Maar, dit was ses weke van baie harde werk!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leon s\u00ea die 1995-span se vlak van fiksheid was uitstaande en dit het hulle na hul roemstatus gedra. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNa \u2019n dag se spanoefening het die spelers verder op hul eie geoefen. Hulle het pawiljoentrappies uitgehardloop en net aangehou en aangehou.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In die tyd wat Leon as bagasiemeester opgetree het, het sy seun Coetzee, die voorreg geniet om die Springbokke na hul laaste oefening voor die 1995-eindstryd te ontmoet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Op \u2019n dowwe foto uit di\u00e9 gloriejaar troon die twee meter lange Coetzee tussen die vleuels James Small (nommer 14) en Chester Williams (nommer 11) uit. Beide di\u00e9 spelers is vanjaar oorlede.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWat vir ons treffend is, is dat vanjaar se Springbokke, wat drie\u00eb gedruk het vir hul 2019 w\u00eareldbe-ker-oorwinning, Cheslin Kolbe en Makazole Mapimpi, ook die nommer 11 en 14 spelers was,\u201d s\u00ea Leon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coetzee, wat aan HTS Daniel Pienaar gematrikuleer het en nou \u2019n Gautenger is, s\u00ea die foto is destyds op die Vrydag voor die einstryd op Ellispark geneem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit was \u2019n jaar na my matriek en \u2019n groot oomblik vir my. Veral omdat die Springbokke die volgende dag die w\u00eareldbeker gewen het,\u201d s\u00ea Coetzee Ferreira.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het eintlik al vergeet van die foto, maar het dit weer gaan uitkrap nadat die Springbokke w\u00e9\u00e9r die w\u00eareldbeker gewen het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit sal nogal nog \u2019n groot oomblik wees as ek tussen Cheslin Kolbe en Makazole Mapimpi kan staan.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coetzee lag en s\u00ea \u201chulle twee is ook net so bleddie<\/span> kort!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DIE voorreg om die gesogte rugby w\u00eareld-beker se goue, 38 sentimeter ho\u00eb Webb Ellis-trofee van 4.5kg vas te hou, is min beskore, maar op Despatch is daar tw\u00e9\u00e9 sulke gelukkige 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