Mpho Mbiyozo
| Full name | Mpho Mzukisi Mbiyozo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 7 February 1983 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Lusikisiki, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 94 kg (14 st 11 lb; 207 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Grey High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | University of Cape Town | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position(s) | Flanker | ||
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| Youth Career | |||
| 2002–2003 | Western Province | ||
| Senior career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 2005–2007 | Western Province | 18 | (10) |
| 2008 | → Boland Cavaliers | 1 | (0) |
| 2010–2013 | Eastern Province Kings | 54 | (50) |
| 2013 | Kings | 1 | (5) |
| 2014–2015 | Vigo | 20 | (50) |
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Correct as of 11 October 2013
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| National team(s) | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 2008 | South Africa Sevens | () | |
| 2009 | Southern Kings | 1 | (5) |
| 2011 | South African Kings | 1 | (0) |
| 2012 | South African Barbarians (South) | 1 | (0) |
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Correct as of 21 February 2013
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Mpho Mbiyozo (born 7 February 1983) is a former South African rugby union player who played with Western Province and the Eastern Province Kings between 2005 and 2013. He usually played as a flanker.
He is currently a coach at the Boland Cavaliers' academy, the Boland Rugby Institute, having previously been the skills and lineout coach with Western Province and also being involved with the Kenyan national team.
He was born in Lusikisiki, went to school at Grey High School in Port Elizabeth and represented Western Province in various youth competitions until being included in the 2005 Vodacom Cup squad.
In 2006, he was called into the South African Sevens rugby team, making some domestic appearances for Western Province and the Boland Cavaliers. He represented the national sevens team until 2009, when he announced he wanted to return to the fifteen-a-side game. He joined the Eastern Province Kings in 2010.
Mpho also made history during the 2009 British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa, when he became the first player to score a try for the newly created Southern Kings rugby franchise.
He was included in the Kings squad for the 2013 Super Rugby season, but failed to make any of their initial matchday squads. Instead, he was the regular captain of the Eastern Province Kings team in their 2013 Vodacom Cup campaign, leading them to their best performance up to that point in the Vodacom Cup by reaching the semi-finals. He played in seven of their nine games that season and scored three tries, making him the joint top try scorer for the EP Kings in that competition.
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