Marnus Schoeman (born 9 February 1989) is a South African

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player for the in

Super Rugby Super Rugby is a men's professional rugby union club competition involving teams from Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. It has previously included teams from Argentina, Japan, and South Africa. Super Rugby started as the S ...

and the in the

Currie Cup The Currie Cup () is South Africa's premier domestic rugby union competition featuring teams representing either entire provinces or substantial regions within provinces. Although it is the premier domestic competition, four South African franc ...

. His regular playing position is

openside flanker Flanker is a position in the sport of rugby union. Each team of 15 players includes two flankers, who play in the forwards, and are generally classified as either blindside or openside flankers, numbers 6 and 7 respectively. The name comes from ...

Rugby career

He represents the in the

and

Vodacom Cup The Vodacom Cup was an annual rugby union competition in South Africa. Annual Vodacom Cup competitions were played between its inaugural season in 1998 and 2015 and was contested between February and May each year. The Vodacom Cup was the succes ...

. Schoeman previously played for

Griquas The Griquas are a subgroup of mixed-race heterogeneous formerly-Xiri-speaking nations in South Africa with a unique origin in the early history of the Dutch Cape Colony. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Comm ...

and the

Blue Bulls The Blue Bulls (), known for sponsorship reasons as the Vodacom Blue Bulls, is a South African rugby union team that participates in the annual Currie Cup tournament and the United Rugby Championship. They are governed by their second team t ...

. He has also played for Tuks in the

Varsity Cup Varsity Cup is the collective name for four South African rugby union competitions involving the top rugby playing universities in the country. It was launched in 2008, with eight teams participating in the Varsity Cup competition and each unive ...

. After four seasons with , Schoeman signed a two-year contract with

Nelspruit Mbombela, formerly Nelspruit, is a city in northeastern South Africa. It is the capital of the Mpumalanga province. Located on the Crocodile River, the city lies about by road west of the Mozambique border, east of Johannesburg and north of ...

-based side the from the 2015 season. He was a member of the Pumas side that won the

for the first time in

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, beating 24–7 in the final. Schoeman made eight appearances during the season, scoring seven tries, which included two in the semi-final win over the and two in the final, to finish the competition as the Pumas' top try scorer. He joined the

side on loan for the 2017 season.

International

Schoeman represented South Africa U20 at the

2009 IRB Junior World Championship The 2009 IRB Junior World Championship (known as the 2009 IRB Toshiba Junior World Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the second annual international rugby union competition for Under 20 national teams, this competition replaces the now de ...

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and made 5 appearances.

References

External links

itsrugby.co.uk profile
1989 births Living people People from Edenvale, Gauteng South African rugby union players Rugby union flankers Griquas (rugby union) players Blue Bulls players South Africa Under-20 international rugby union players Rugby union players from Gauteng Pumas (Currie Cup) players Bulls (rugby union) players Lions (United Rugby Championship) players Golden Lions players FC Grenoble Rugby players Alumni of Hoërskool Waterkloof South African expatriate rugby union players in France 21st-century South African sportsmen World Games bronze medalists for South Africa World Games medalists in rugby sevens Medalists at the 2009 World Games Tuks Rugby Club players {{SouthAfrica-rugbyunion-bio-1980s-stub