Shane Williams Net Worth, Income, Salary, Earnings, Biography

Shane Mark Williams MBE (born 26 February 1977) is a Welsh rugby union player who is most known for his long and successful career as a winger for the Ospreys and the Wales national side. He was awarded the MBE in recognition of his services to rugby union. He is also capable of playing scrum-half. The Welsh national team’s all-time top try scorer, Williams is ranked third in the world after Daisuke Ohata and David Campese on the all-time list of leading rugby union test try scorers. He has the most caps of any winger for Wales. 

Williams was named the International Rugby Board’s Player of the Year in 2008. The Welsh rugby player has worked as a presenter on S4C’s Six Nations rugby programme Y Clwb Rygbi Rhyngwaldol since his retirement from international rugby in 2012. He has also appeared on BBC broadcasts and third party shows such as “Inside Welsh Rugby,” where he has commented on the grassroots of Welsh rugby. Williams was included to the Barbarians team that competed against Wales in June of this year. After initially stating that this would be his last game, he signed a one-year deal with the Mitsubishi Dynaboars in Japan in June 2012, which was originally intended to be his last appearance as a player. During the 2012 Birthday Honours, Williams was awarded the title of Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in recognition of his contributions to rugby.

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