SOUTH AFRICA’S RECORD try-scorer Bryan Habana will retire at the end of the season.
The wing will turn 35 in June when his contract with Top14 club Toulon expires.
Habana is second on the all-time list of Springbok cap-holders behind Victor Matfield with 124 and his record of 67 Test tries is only surpassed by Japan’s Daisuke Ohata.
Habana, whose tries were key to South Africa’s World Cup victory in 2007, revealed the decision to hang up his boots on Instagram today after struggling to force his way back into the Toulon side following knee surgery last year.
Habana wrote: “The inevitable moment has come knocking on my door and I’ve welcomed it in for a drink.
“It’s been more than a year of hoping, trying, pushing and willing to get back on the field for one last time, to taste the sweet victory or encounter that gut-wrenching despair. To hear the roar of the crowd or grab the pill out of the air.
“To make that last bone crunching tackle or score that last game winning try. But it’s unfortunately just not to be.
I, like most, would have liked my career to have ended differently, but sometimes things don’t turn out quite the way we hope for.
“So at the end of this season, it’s time to say goodbye and thank you to the game I so dearly love.”
Habana has won two European titles and the Top 14 during his time with Toulon and was a two-time Super Rugby champion with the Bulls.
Anyone else sick of all this ‘he lost the dressing room’ rubbish as if its acceptable for players to down tools or not try because they dislike the manager? If I was a Chelsea fan, I’d be outraged. These players are grown men or astronomical wages. The fact that it’s seen as acceptable in modern football for players to not bother sums up everything that’s wrong with it
To be fair to some of the players beano, n there’s a few of them that I really don’t like, I think it’s mainly mourinhos attitude / ego / bizarre post match interviews, and his deplorable treatment of the medical staff that is responsible for this! Players are responsible for their own performances I agree but when there’s been a consistent and prolonged malfunction like this one then the buck has to stop with the manager. And frankly his behaviour throughout this whole period has been disgraceful. If the manager is behaving in that way, why would the players play or behave any better. ?
Redundancy of 40.000.000 €!! Happy days special one…
Maybe now the players who have been playing totally rubbish will start getting the stick they deserve with no mourinho to blame or to Base the news stories on when Chelsea lose.
just be cafeful passing stamford bridge cause they giving ev1 3points:-)
Absolutely insane sacking Mourinho. After all he’s done for the club you would think he earned the right to stay until the end of the season at least. If 2 or 3 players were an issue in the dressing room he would have gotten rid in January.
Did you same the same about Garry Monk?
why did this take so long