MY LIFEIN RUGBY
THE FORMER SPRINGBOKS, SWD EAGLES, PUMAS, BULLS, CATS, BOLAND, FREE STATE CHEETAHS, TREVISO, LEICESTER, LEEDS, WASPS AND SHARKS LOOSE FORWARD
MARCO WENTZEL

High point: Marco Wentzel playing for Leicester
PICTURE: Getty Images

HAD it not been for Heyneke Meyer offering me a pro contract out of school, I don’t know if I would have gone on to enjoy the 19- year career I had. I was a skinny kid who didn’t know if he was a flanker or lock when he signed me for the SWD Eagles.
After two years at the SWD, I moved to the Pumas who were based in Witbank, a tough mining commun...