Springbok flyhalf Manie Libbok is among the Breakthrough Player of the Year nominees for the World Rugby awards.
On Thursday it was confirmed that Manie Libbok had not been included in the Springboks’ matchday 23 for the World Cup final, but he is among a top-class list ofSpringbok coach Jacques Nienaber, centurion lock Eben Etzebeth have also been nominated among the awards that will be presented at the Opéra Garnier in Paris on Sunday, 29 October – a day after Saturday’s Rugby World Cup final at the Stade de France.
Libbok features on an exciting list of nominees for Breakthrough Player of the Year along with Louis Bielle-Biarrey , Mark Tele’a and Tamaiti Williams .Nienaber is in line for the World Rugby Coach of the Year award, while Etzebeth and Libbok have been nominated in the categories of World Rugby Men’s 15s Player of the Year and World Rugby Men’s 15s Breakthrough Player of the Year respectively. Etzebeth was also selected for the World Rugby Men’s 15s Dream Team.
Nienaber, who took up the role as Springbok head coach in 2020 after serving as an assistant coach to Rassie Erasmus, who switched roles from Bok head coach to SA Rugby Director of Rugby after the team’s triumphant 2019 RWC campaign in Japan, will go up against Ian Foster , Andy Farrell and Simon Raiwalui for the world’s most prestigious coaching award.
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