Three-time world rugby champions Springbok stay connected in Fourways
The Springboks rugby team and technology company Oppo have forged a new partnership to be the team’s official handset partner.
When three of South Africa’s most beloved Springbok players, Eben Etzebeth, Lukhanyo Am and Bongi Mbonambi, visit The Roof in Fourways, something big must be happening.
The national rugby players visited the area to launch a collaboration with Oppo, the team’s new official handset partner. Oppo also partners with the football team Orlando Pirates and South African Fashion Week.
For now, the agreement is with the men’s team. It is a work in progress to involve the women’s rugby and junior rugby teams in the future.
General manager of marketing and communications, at the South African Rugby Union, Andy Colquhoun said a partnership like this aids the team to continue utilising technology more when it comes to their training. They not only go to camps, but they also receive exercises on what they need to do that are monitored by their management team.
All three players agreed that the partnership is beneficial to them as a team as well as in their personal capacities. “It’s important to keep in touch with loved ones. We’re on the road for so many weeks and months,” Mbonambi said.
“When you get that free time to see family and friends, it takes your mind off rugby a little bit. The new technology definitely also helps us to keep in contact with them.”
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