Springbok Women's coach aiming for Rugby World Cup play-offs
Sunday Tribune
|August 10, 2025
SOUTH Africa head coach Swys de Bruin believes an experienced squad led by the Springbok women's most capped player Nolusindiso Booi can “push them towards the playoffs" of the Rugby World Cup.
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Booi, capped 52 times, also сарtained the squad at the previous tournament in New Zealand in 2022 and is one of 19 players out of the 32 player squad with previous Women's Rugby World Cup experience.
South Africa, whose poor record pales into insignificance compared to the men's team who have won the global showpiece a record four times, are in Pool D for the tournament, which is being held in England and runs from August 22 to September 27.
They face a tough challenge to even progress from the pool stage with Six Nations runners-up France favour-ites to top it.
They open their campaign against Brazil on August 24 followed by an improving Italy a week later and round it off against the French on September 7.
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