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‘My dream is to play for Boks’ – Vermeulen

A year ago, he had to get used to playing on the frozen and muddy rugby fields of England every week.

And, as an Afrikaans-speaking man from Paarl in the Western Cape, he also had to get used to speaking English all the time – sometimes tying his tongue in knots.

But a year on, Jacques Vermeulen, the former junior Springbok and Sharks loose forward, feels at home in

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