Adriaan Jacobus "True Blue" Smit (born 28 April 1984) is a South African

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 ...

professional footballer. He can operate in several positions in the back-line but usually plays as a

fly-half In the game of rugby union, there are 15 players on each team, comprising eight forwards (wearing jerseys numbered 1–8) and seven backs (numbered 9–15). In addition, there may be up to eight replacement players "on the bench", numbered 16� ...

or fullback.

Career

Smit currently represents

Oyonnax Oyonnax () is the second most populated commune in the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France. Oyonnax lies in a valley of the Jura Mountains in the far north of Ain. It is near the Parc naturel régional du Hau ...

in the French

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. He represented 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 both 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 ...

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 ...

between 2010 and 2014. He moved to

Bloemfontein Bloemfontein ( ; ), also known as Bloem, is the capital and the largest city of the Free State (province), Free State province in South Africa. It is often, and has been traditionally, referred to as the country's "judicial capital", alongsi ...

in 2010 after having something of a nomadic existence prior to that, representing the , and . He signed a contract with French

side

prior to the 2014–2015 season.

References

Living people 1984 births South African rugby union players Rugby union fullbacks Rugby union fly-halves Afrikaner people Rugby union players from Springs, South Africa Cheetahs (rugby union) players Free State Cheetahs players Pumas (Currie Cup) players Leopards (rugby union) players Falcons (rugby union) players Griffons (rugby union) players South African expatriate rugby union players in France 21st-century South African sportsmen Oyonnax Rugby players {{SouthAfrica-rugbyunion-bio-1980s-stub