Pieter-Jan van Lill (born 4 December 1983 in

Keetmanshoop Keetmanshoop is a town in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia. It is named after , a German Empire, German industrialist and benefactor of the city. Keetmanshoop had a population of 27,862 people in 2023. History Before the colonial era, ...

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Namibia Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa. Its borders include the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south; in the no ...

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rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...

player. Van Lill was on the Namibian squads for the

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

2019 Rugby World Cup The 2019 Rugby World Cup () was the ninth edition of the Rugby World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's rugby union teams. It was hosted in Japan from 20 September to 2 November in 12 venues all across the country. The opening matc ...

. He started his French rugby career with Dax in July 2014 where he stayed for 1 season and played 21 games for the Landes team. van Lill joined Aviron Bayonnais in 2015 where he played 99 games during his 5 season at Bayonne.

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* 1983 births Living people People from Keetmanshoop Rugby union players from ǁKaras Region Rugby union number eights Namibian rugby union players Namibian expatriate rugby union players in France Namibia international rugby union players US Dax players Aviron Bayonnais players White Namibian people Namibian Afrikaner people Valence Romans Drôme Rugby players 2011 Rugby World Cup players 2015 Rugby World Cup players 2019 Rugby World Cup players 2023 Rugby World Cup players 21st-century Namibian sportsmen {{Namibia-rugbyunion-bio-stub