Mpho Mbiyozo’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro South African rugby union player
Is Athlete 
Rugby union player 
From South Africa 
Type Sports 
Gender male
Birth 7 February 1983, Lusikisiki
Age: 37 years

Mpho Mbiyozo (born 7 February 1983) is a former South African rugby union player who played with Western Province and the Eastern Province Kings between 2005 and 2013. He usually played as a flanker.
He is currently an coach at the Boland Cavaliers’ academy, the Boland Rugby Institute, having previously been the skills and lineout coach with Western Province and also being involved with the Kenyan national team.

Career

Youth

He was born in Lusikisiki, went to school at Grey High School in Port Elizabeth and represented Western Province in various youth competitions until being included in the 2005 Vodacom Cup squad.

Senior career

In 2006, he was called into the South African Sevens rugby team, making some domestic appearances for Western Province and the Boland Cavaliers. He represented the national sevens team until 2009, when he announced he wanted to return to the fifteen-a-side game. He joined the Eastern Province Kings in 2010.

Mpho also made history during the 2009 British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa, when he became the first player to score a try for the newly created Southern Kings rugby franchise.

2013 Southern Kings Super Rugby season

He was included in the Kings squad for the 2013 Super Rugby season, but failed to make any of their initial matchday squads. Instead, he was the regular captain of the Eastern Province Kings team in their 2013 Vodacom Cup campaign, leading them to their best performance up to that point in the Vodacom Cup by reaching the semi-finals. He played in seven of their nine games that season and scored three tries, making him the joint top try scorer for the EP Kings in that competition.

He was eventually named as a starter for the Kings for their final Super Rugby match of the regular 2013 Super Rugby season against the Sharks.

Vigo

Mbiyozo also had a season playing for Spanish side Vigo in the 2014–15 División de Honor de Rugby. He made 20 appearances and scored 10 tries, to finish in the top ten of the try-scoring charts of the competition. However, despite his efforts, his side finished bottom of the log to be relegated to the División de Honor B de Rugby.

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