Birth name | Adriaan Rudolph Fondse | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 9 June 1983 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Pretoria, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 116 kg (18 st 4 lb; 256 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Affies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Adriaan Fondse (born 9 June 1983) is a South African rugby union footballer [1] formerly playing for Newcastle Falcons. [2]
Fondse attended Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (Afrikaans High School for Boys, also known as Affies), a public school located in Pretoria. He attended alongside Bulls players Wynand Olivier, Pierre Spies, Fourie du Preez, Derick Kuun and Jacques-Louis Potgieter, Stade Français lock Cliff Milton and Titans Cricketers AB de Villiers, Heino Kuhn, Faf du Plessis and Jacques Rudolph.
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