Full name Mpho Mzukisi Mbiyozo 2005–07 Western Province Weight 94 kg Name Mpho Mbiyozo Career start 2005 | 2002–03 Western Province Role Rugby Player Education Grey High School Years Team Height 1.82 m | |
Born 7 February 1983 (age 41)
Lusikisiki, South Africa ( 1983-02-07 ) University University of Cape Town | ||
School(s) attended Grey High School | ||
Mpho mbiyozo rugby warrior
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.
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- Mpho mbiyozo rugby warrior
- Mpho mbiyozo 2013
- Youth
- Senior career
- 2013 Southern Kings Super Rugby season
- Vigo
- References
He is currently a 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.
Mpho mbiyozo 2013
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.