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Ex-England star Youngs to retire from rugby
Gulf Today
|April 23, 2025
Leicester Tigers' 35-year-old former England scrumhalf Ben Youngs, the country’s most-capped men’s player, will retire at the end of the season, the Premiership club said on Tuesday.
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Youngs, who became Leicester’s youngest Premiership player aged 17 in April 2007, made his 332nd appearance for the club as a substitute in the Easter Sunday win away to Bristol Bears.
He retired from international rugby in 2023 after 127 games. Youngs played in four Rugby World Cups and the 2013 British & Irish Lions tour of Australia and won four Six Nations titles.
This story is from the April 23, 2025 edition of Gulf Today.
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