Marius Joubert

Marius Joubert

Full name	Marius Charl Joubert
Date of birth	(1979-07-10) 10 July 1979
Place of birth	Paarl, South Africa
Height
Weight	94 kg (14 st 11 lb)
School	Paarl Gimnasium
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position	Centre
Professional / senior clubs
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2008–11	Clermont	66	(70)
correct as of 10 April 2012.
Provincial/State sides
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1999–01 2002–06 2007 2011–	Boland Cavaliers Western Province Free State Cheetahs Template:Rut Natal Sharks	37 15 15 29	(90) (35) (10) (10)
correct as of 7 May 2013.
Super Rugby
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2002–06 2007 2012	Stormers Cheetahs Sharks	46 12 3	(55) (0) (0)
correct as of 20 May 2012.
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2001–05	South Africa	30	(45)
correct as of 10 April 2012.

Marius Charl Joubert (born 10 July 1979 in Paarl, Western Cape) is a South African rugby union player who plays as a centre for Natal Sharks in the Super 15. He has previously played for the Boland Cavaliers, Free State Cheetahs, ASM Clermont Auvergne and Western Province in the Currie Cup and the Stormers and the Central Cheetahs in Super Rugby. Joubert was educated at Paarl Gimnasium, alongside current Springboks and former Western Province and Stormers teammates De Wet Barry and Jean de Villiers. A few years later, the same school produced another current Springbok star in Schalk Burger.

Joubert started his career at the Boland Cavaliers where he played from 1999 to 2001 when he joined Western Province from 2002 to 2006. He made his debut for South Africa against New Zealand in 2001 and in that very game, picked up a serious knee injury. Despite several injury setbacks (one of which, a badly damaged shoulder, kept him out of the 2003 World Cup), Joubert continued to develop into a world-class centre.

He was a member of the 2004 Springbok squad that won the Tri-Nations. In the Boks' home match at Ellis Park in Johannesburg against the All Blacks, he became only the second Springbok in history (after Ray Mordt in 1981) to score a hat-trick of tries against the All Blacks. Joubert was also for a time South Africa's leading try scorer in Tri Nations play, with six tries, before being overtaken by Breyton Paulse.

During the 2006 Super 14 season. Joubert's form dipped dramatically due to several injury problems. Firstly he struggled with a back injury that kept him from playing in the Currie Cup. He then sustained a back injury that kept him out of the Currie Cup and the Springboks' year-end tour to Argentina, Wales and France. He returned to play for the Stormers in the Super 14, only to break his hand in their final fixture. On 11 September 2006, the Cheetahs announced that Joubert had signed for them for the upcoming 2007 season, thus ending Joubert's 5-year association with the Stormers and Western Province Rugby Union.

Joubert won the 2007 Currie Cup with the Free State Cheetahs and the 2010 French Championship with ASM Clermont Auvergne.

Joubert is 6'3"/1.91 m and weighs 202 lb/91.5 kg.

The Natal Sharks have announced that he has signed for them for two years, and will join them as soon as this seasons French Top 14 ends.

Honours

• 2004 Tri-Nations winner (Springboks)
• 2007 Currie Cup winner (Free State Cheetahs)
• 2010 French Champions: ASM Clermont Auvergne

External links

• Marius Joubert at SARugby.co.za
• SA Rugby Profile
• itsrugby.co.uk Profile