Andrew Mehrtens

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Andrew Mehrtens
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Player information
Full name Andrew Philip Mehrtens
birthday April 28, 1973
place of birth Durban , South Africa
society
society AS Béziers
position Interconnects
Clubs as active
Years society Games (points)
1993-2004 Canterbury RFU 108 (1056)
1996-2005 Crusaders (Super 14) 87 (981)
2005-2007 Harlequins 32 (318)
2007-2008 RC Toulon 24 (261)
2008-2010 Racing Métro 92 39 (377)
2010-2011 AS Béziers 19 (97)
National team
Years National team Games (points)
1995-2005 New Zealand 70 (967)

Status: October 11, 2011
National team: September 21, 2005

Andrew Philip Mehrtens , MNZM (born April 28, 1973 in Durban , South Africa ) is a former New Zealand rugby union player. He was considered one of the best players in the position of the connector (fly-half) since professionalization in the mid-1990s. Mehrtens played in France since 2007 , first at RC Toulon and later for Racing Métro 92 . Most recently he was under contract with AS Béziers , where he now works as a coach. In 70 games for the All Blacks (the New Zealand national team) he scored 967 points.

biography

Mehrtens' New Zealand parents lived in South Africa and returned to New Zealand when he was one year old. He grew up in Christchurch , played for the junior national teams (U-19 and U-21) and was appointed to the All Blacks squad for the first time in 1995. In his first international match against Canada he scored 28 points, never before had a player been so successful in his first appearance for the All Blacks. Mehrtens took part in the 1995 World Cup, when the New Zealanders lost to host South Africa in the final .

At the 1999 World Cup he was again one of the best players in the tournament, but the favored New Zealanders lost to the French in the semi-finals and to the South Africans in the third place match. A loss of shape and minor injuries meant that Mehrtens was not called up for the 2003 World Cup . In 2004 he made a comeback in the national team. He has not played for the All Blacks since being disregarded for the games against the British and Irish Lions in 2005. The 967 points he scored in 70 international matches were a record for a New Zealand international at the time. Daniel Carter surpassed this mark in November 2009.

Mehrtens is also one of the most successful players at club level. He was a key player in the Crusaders' international Super 12 (now Super 14 ) championship. With the Crusaders, he won the championship five times between 1998 and 2002. He was three times with the Canterbury Rugby Football Union in the national championship National Provincial Championship successful (1997, 2001 and 2004). In 2005 Mehrtens moved to England, where he played for the Harlequins in London .

In the 2007/2008 season Mehrtens played for the French second division club RC Toulon and achieved promotion with this. He then moved to Racing Métro 92 again in the French second division and rose to the top 14 with this club, which had only just failed to advance in the 2007/2008 season, in 2009 . Mehrtens' contract was not renewed after two years, after which he moved to the amateur club AS Béziers at the beginning of the 2010/11 season. The three-year contract contains a clause according to which he can switch to the coaching staff if he decides to resign as a player. He took this step at the end of the 2010/11 season.

successes

National team:

Societies:

  • Super 12 winners with the Crusaders : 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002
  • Super 12 finalist: 2003, 2004, 2005
  • 990 points in the Super 12 (record)
  • NPC Masters with Canterbury RFU : 1997, 2001, 2004

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mehrtens signs for third-tier Beziers. The Sydney Morning Herald , August 10, 2010, accessed August 30, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Mostly, Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mehrtens, Andrew Philip (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand rugby union player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Durban , South Africa