Siya Kolisi Biography
Siya Kolisi born Siyamthanda Kolisi, is a South African rugby union rugby player who plays for Western Province in the Currie Cup and theSouth African National team, the Stormers in Super Rugby. He mostly plays the position of a flanker but he is able to play any position in the back row.
Siya Kolisi Age
Siyamthanda Kolisi was born on 16th June 1991 in South Africa.
Siya Kolisi Salary
The average annual salary of a professional rugby player in South Africa is estimated at R609375 and R50000 monthly. Being a professional player playing for the national team, Kolisi might be earning a slightly higher figure than this.
Siya Kolisi Net Worth
Kolisi has been named by tabloids as one of the richest rugby players in South Africa. He has not shared information about his networth but he seems to be living a lavish lifestyle due to his hard work.
Siya Kolisi Parents – Background
Kolisi was born to Phakama his mother and Fezakele. His mother was 16 years old when she gave birth to home while his father was in his final year of school. She later died when he was fifteen years old leaving him with his grandmother as his guardian. He grew up in Zwide township outside Port Elizabeth and endured a tough upbringing.
Siya Kolisi School
At the age of 12, he impressed scouts at a youth tournament in Mossel Bay and was offered a scholarship at Grey Junior in Port Elizabeth. He went to Grey High School, where he was a member of the First XV rugby team. He was also a part of the Eastern Province Kings youth set-up between 2007 and 2009, playing in the Under-16 Grant Khomo Week and the Under-18 Craven Week before shifting west to join Western Province.
Siya Kolisi Wife
Kolisi married Rachel Smith a former professional Event manager and marketing Executive at a glamorous wedding in the Western Cape in August 2016. She quit her job to take care of her family and children in general.
Siya Kolisi Kids
Rachel and Siya were blessed with two children; son Nicholas Siyamthanda (2015) and daughter Keziah born around 2018. Siya is also the guardian to his two half-siblings who are his mother’s children. The two Liyema nad Liphelo lived for five years in an orphanage and foster care until the rugby player took them in 2014.
Siya Kolisi Baby
Rugby star Siya Kolisi and his wife Rachel can’t contain their excitement over the new addition to their family. Rachel gave birth to the couple’s second child together a few days ago. Siya posted a picture on Saturday of Rachel in the hospital with the caption, “I’m grateful”.
Rachel took to Instagram on Monday to share a picture of herself kissing her baby girl’s head. The image did not reveal the newborn’s face. The couple, who are already the parents of three-year-old Nicholas, have not yet revealed their daughter’s name.
Siya Kolisis Western Province
Siya made his senior debut for Western Province against the Golden Lions during the 2011 Vodacom Cup and later in the year several injuries and international call-ups gave him the opportunity to make regular starts in the Currie Cup.
Siya Kolisi Stormers
In 2012 Kolisi graduate to the Stormers squad. He made an immediate impact with sixteen appearances during that season. He got a thumb injury which prevented him to play in the second half of that year. With a fierce comeback, he recorded 13 appearances and two tries despite tough competition among the loose forwards the following year. This record earned him his first international recognition.
Kolisi was selected as the new captain of the Stormers on 20 February 2017. He was selected as the new captain of the Springboks on 28 May 2018, becoming the team’s first black captain in its 126-year history. Bryan Habana, former Springbok and of mixed race, praised Siya Kolisi’s appointment: “It’s a monumental moment for South African rugby and a moment in South African history.
