Pierre Spies
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Pierre Johan Spies | ||
| Born |
8 June 1985 Pretoria, South Africa |
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| Height | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Weight | 111 kg (17 st 7 lb) | ||
| School(s) attended | Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool | ||
| University | University of Pretoria | ||
| Club information | |||
| Playing position | Number 8 | ||
| Current club | Kintetsu Liners | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2005 | Blue Bulls | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Pts)† |
| 2005–2010 | Blue Bulls | 17 | (20) |
| 2005–2015 | Bulls | 119 | (145) |
| 2015 | Kintetsu Liners | 8 | (20) |
| 2016–present | Montpellier | 4 | (5) |
| Representative team(s)‡ | |||
| 2005 | South Africa Students | 1 | (5) |
| 2006 | South Africa Under-21 | 4 | (15) |
| 2006–2013 | South Africa | 53 | (35) |
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* Senior club appearances and points correct as of 14 June 2015. |
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* Senior club appearances and points correct as of 14 June 2015.
† Appearances (Points).
Pierre Johan Spies (born 8 June 1985 in Pretoria) is a South African rugby union player. He usually plays as a Number 8, but can also play as a flank. Between 2005 and 2015, he spent the majority of his career playing Super Rugby for the Bulls and domestic South African rugby for the Blue Bulls. He also represented South Africa between 2006 and 2013.
Spies was born on 8 June 1985 in Pretoria and attended Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (Afrikaans High School for Boys, also known as Affies), a public school located in Pretoria. He attended alongside future Springbok team-mates Fourie du Preez and Wynand Olivier, professional rugby players Derick Kuün, Jacques-Louis Potgieter, Gerhard van den Heever, Adriaan Fondse and cricketers AB de Villiers, Heino Kuhn and Faf du Plessis. After school, he completed his first year in B.Sc. Construction Management at the University of Pretoria.
He married Juanne Weidemann, in December 2008.
He made his first class debut for the Blue Bulls in 2005 in a match against Griquas. He made his Super 12 debut against the Brumbies, becoming the youngest player ever to represent the Bulls. However, he picked up an injury in this match and reverted to the Blue Bulls U21 side, where he scored nine tries in six games in the 2005 Under-21 Provincial Championship.
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