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Marcel Theunissen

  • Position:
    Loose Forward
  • Nickname:
    Marcel
  • Date of birth:
    1999-06-09
  • Place of birth:
    Bloemfontein
  • Height:
    192 cm
  • Weight:
    104 kg
  • School:
    Grey College
  • DHL Stormers Caps:
    58
  • Social media handles:
    Instagram: @marceltheunissen

What is your earliest rugby memory?

Playing Backyard rugby.

What has been your career highlight to date?

Winning the Vodacom URC.

Who has had the biggest impact on your career and why?

Coach Rito Hlungwani. I've been working with him from U19 and he has helped me alot over the years. What do you like to do when you are not playing rugby? Fishing and golf.

Who has been the most influential person in your life and why?

My parents, all the stuff that they have taught me from when I was a young boy.

What is your favourite city you have visited and why?

Venice, I just think it is so nice how everything works there.

What is your favourite meal?

Steak.

Who was your rugby hero growing up?

Ardie Savea.

If you could invite any five people to a braai, who would they be?

Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, Schalk Burger my father, my brother.

Best and worst dressed in the squad?

Best: Suleiman Hartzenberg. Worst: Andre-Hugo Venter.

Funniest person in the squad and why?

Hendre Stassen, I can laugh at everything he does.

Scoring

  • Tries scored

    1

Attack

  • Carries

    46

  • Metres made

    46

  • Passes

    9

  • Offloads

    1

  • Defenders beaten

    2

  • Clean breaks

    2

  • Crossed gainline

    29

  • Post-contact metres

    45

Defence

  • Tackles

    42

  • Dominant tackle contact

    1

  • Contested breakdown

    2

Lineout

  • Line-outs won own throw

    3

  • Line-out steals

    5

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