Kees Meeuws
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use New Zealand English Template:Multiple issues Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main other Kees Junior Meeuws (Template:IPAc-en; born 26 July 1974) is a New Zealand former rugby union prop and former assistant coach of the Highlanders in the Super Rugby competition, and also a real estate agent by trade and a painter by education. Meeuws played 42 tests for the All Blacks between 1998 and 2004, scoring 10 test tries. He played provincial rugby for Otago and Auckland, and played for the Blues in the Super 12. In 2004, Meeuws left New Zealand to take up a contract with French club Castres Olympique, and in 2006 he left Castres for Agen after a falling-out with Castres coach Laurent Seigne. Following Agen's relegation after the 2006–07 season, Meeuws left Agen and returned to Castres, signing a two-year contract with the club. In May 2008, it was announced that Meeuws would be joining the Scarlets on a two-year deal. However, shortly into his Scarlets career, he suffered a long-term injury. In July 2009, having made just 12 appearances and scored 1 try, his contract with the Scarlets was cancelled by mutual consent. He returned to Otago in 2010 to play in the ITM Cup.
Meeuws was born in Auckland of Dutch and Māori parentage. He has written an autobiographical book about his experiences in France, Le Rugbyman (co-written with Heather Kidd), published in 2005.
Meeuws has a long-standing interest in art, and has exhibited his own work (created in collaboration with David Burke) in 2011 and 2015.[1] He was also an alumnus of Elam School of Fine Arts as part of University of Auckland.
In 2020, he is in the alumni Match Fit squad to face New Zealand Barbarians. He revealed that he lost his mother at age 10, and his father at 20.[2] He returned in season 2 in 2021/22 as the most powerful, strongest and most explosive player in the team.[3]
References
External links
- Kees Meeuws at the All Blacks (archived)Template:EditAtWikidata
- Kees Meeuws (official website)
- Scarlets profile
Template:All Blacks Squad 1999 World Cup Template:All Blacks Squad 2003 World Cup
- ↑ "Kees Meeuws and David Burke," Gallery De Novo. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
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- Living people
- New Zealand rugby union players
- Auckland rugby union players
- Rugby union props
- New Zealand international rugby union players
- New Zealand people of Dutch descent
- Blues (Super Rugby) players
- Highlanders (rugby union) players
- Scarlets players
- New Zealand Māori sportspeople
- People educated at Rutherford College, Auckland
- New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in Wales
- Rugby union players from Auckland
- 1999 Rugby World Cup players
- 2003 Rugby World Cup players
- Castres Olympique players
- SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne players
- New Zealand expatriate rugby union players in France