Injury forces Australian Staniforth to retire from rugby
Physical injuries are part and parcel of professional rugby. But now day’s the number of injuries in rugby has increased to alarming levels. It is either because of weak fitness of players or huge quantity of matches being played. Many plaayers have been
forced to announce early retirement because of injury problems.
The most recent case of an injured player is Australian, Scott Staniforth. He had been struggling with a neck injury, which forced him to announce his retirement. He said that he talked to many specialists about his injury but they all recommended that he
retires from rugby.
Injury
Staniforth, who used to play in different positions during his rugby career, got the first serious injury while he was playing against Xerox Lions in Johannesburg in May this year. He tried hard to recover from his injury and after 2 months of hard work
he was able to make a comeback to rugby.
But he badly damaged his neck during a training session with Soaks in August this year. After his neck injury, it became dangerous for him to play rugby again and he announced his retirement from international and domestic rugby.
Staniforth spoke to the media over his retirement and said, "I guess it is not the way you want to finish but I feel as though I’ve had a pretty good run at it and been lucky enough to have had a really enjoyable last 13 years. I would have loved to have
got my 50 games for the Force and still felt I had a few little goals left to achieve”.
Career
32-year old Scott Staniforth was born on 12 December, 1977 in New South Wales, Australia. He played professional rugby with Eastwood, London Irish, and Yokogawa Musashino Atlastars. He made his Super Rugby debut for New South Wales Waratahs against Border
Reviers, in 1997.
He played for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_Wales_WaratahsNSW Waratahs, Western Force and Nedlands in his decade long super rugby career. He also played for Australia Under-19 and Australia Under-21 during his career. He also got the honour of playing for Australia-A side. He made his international debut against
USA in 1999 world cup, which was a big achievement of his career.
He played 106 matches during his Super Rugby career and scored 205 points. He played 12 test matches during his international career for Australia and scored 35 points.
Biggest Achievement
According to him, his biggest achievement was playing in 1999 World Cup. Moreover, playing with some of the biggest stars in the rugby world is another thing, which makes him happy all the time.
Tribute
His head coach at Western Force, Richard Graham, talked about his retirement and said his retirement is a big loss and he was a highly regarded and respected member of our team. He said, he played more than 100 matches in his Super Rugby career and it will
be very difficult for them to find his replacement.
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