Kenyan rugby ace Collins Injera retires aged 36
Kenya’s all-time prime strive scorer Collins Injera introduced his retirement on Tuesday after a 17-year rugby profession.
The towering 36-year-old is second to Britain’s Dan Norton within the rugby sevens World Collection try-scoring charts with 271 touchdowns.
“I’ve at all times stated that I’ll know it is time as a result of my physique will inform me,” Injera stated in a press release.
“For the previous few months, it has actually spoken to me so, lastly, I’ve determined to pay attention.”
The crown jewel of his profession was profitable the Singapore leg of the World Sevens Collection in 2016, the place he was named participant of the ultimate as Kenya beat Fiji 30-7.
“For the following chapter, I’ll proceed with my humanitarian work,” Injera stated, including that he would spend extra time together with his household.
Like a lot of Kenya’s prime rugby gamers, Injera grew up working and enjoying soccer earlier than switching to rugby in his early teenagers.
The son of a professor, he made his worldwide debut in 2005 and went on to attain tries at an everyday frequency, although he’s extra extensively identified for what he as soon as did after one in all his touchdowns.
On the London Sevens in 2015, Injera celebrated his two hundredth strive by pulling a marker pen from his socks and scrawling his title on a tv digicam, as tennis gamers typically do, and unwittingly ruined a lens valued at about $86,000.
The speedster winger was inducted this month into the Fiji Corridor of Fame.
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