Name WP Nel Career start 2008 Weight 120 kg | Height 1.82 m Role Rugby Player Spouse Alana Nel (m. 2011) | |
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Prop wp nel scores try from yards edinburgh v leinster 4th jan 2013
Willem Petrus Nel (born 30 April 1986) is a South African rugby union player. He plays as a prop for Edinburgh Rugby in the Pro12 and represents Scotland internationally. He previously played for Free State Cheetahs, Western Province and the Boland Cavaliers.
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Nel joined Scottish Pro 12 side Edinburgh in July 2012.
After three years at Murrayfield Stadium, Nel became eligible to represent Scotland in June 2015, and claimed he would decline an invitation to represent his native Springboks in order to do so. He made his international bow against Italy during the 2015 summer Tests, and was subsequently named in the final 31-man squad for the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
He scored his first international try in the 39–16 World Cup match against the USA.
Nel played in all of Scotland's matches in the 2016 Six Nations but missed the 2016 Autumn Internationals and the entire 2017 Six Nations due to a neck injury.
In March 2017 it was announced that Nel had signed a three-year extension to his contract with Edinburgh.