{"id":64536,"date":"2025-11-24T17:39:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/springbok-hooker-malcolm-marx-named-world-player-of-the-year"},"modified":"2025-11-24T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:25:08","slug":"springbok-hooker-malcolm-marx-named-world-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/springbok-hooker-malcolm-marx-named-world-player-of-the-year","title":{"rendered":"Springbok hooker Malcolm Marx named World Player of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>South Africa hooker Malcolm Marx was named World Rugby Men\u2019s 15s Player of the Year on Saturday, the fourth Springbok to claim the individual award, his success coming seven years after he was first nominated.<\/p>\n<p>Marx took the award ahead of Springbok teammates Pieter-Steph du Toit, a twice winner, and Ox Nche, as well as French winger Louis Bielle-Biarrey.<\/p>\n<p>Nche was hoping to become the first prop to win the prize and had a strong case.<\/p>\n<p>Marx joined Du Toit (2019 &amp; 2024), Bryan Habana (2007) and Schalk Burger (2004) as South African recipients of the award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s really sunk in to be honest. To be fair none of this is achieved without the team environment we have, without the management, without the players,\u201d Marx told a news conference after a player-of-the-match display against Ireland on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are tight-knit group and things like this happen when you have a group that we have. So in my opinion this isn\u2019t for me just an individual award, I think it\u2019s more a team award, because the support and the structures that we have for guys to express themselves is unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand lock Fabian Holland was named World Rugby 15s Breakthrough Player of the Year, while John Mitchell was Coach of the Year after leading England to Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup success, though that award was announced in September.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s Sophie de Goede took the World Rugby Women\u2019s 15s Player of the Year, and breakthrough player went to Braxton Sorensen-McGee of New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Lesotho<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. South Africa hooker Malcolm Marx was named World Rugby Men\u2019s 15s Player of the Year on Saturday, the fourth Springbok to claim the individual award, his success coming seven years after he was first nominated. Marx took the award ahead of Springbok teammates Pieter-Steph du Toit, a twice winner, and Ox Nche, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":64535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[245],"class_list":["post-64536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-lesotho"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Springbok hooker Malcolm Marx named World Player of the Year - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"South Africa hooker Malcolm Marx was named World Rugby Men\u2019s 15s Player of the Year on Saturday, the fourth Springbok to ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/springbok-hooker-malcolm-marx-named-world-player-of-the-year\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Springbok hooker Malcolm Marx named World Player of the Year\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"South Africa hooker Malcolm Marx was named World Rugby Men\u2019s 15s Player of the Year on Saturday, the fourth Springbok to ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/springbok-hooker-malcolm-marx-named-world-player-of-the-year\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lesotho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-11-24T17:39:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-11-24T18:25:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/11\/sm_1763995972.381123.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/springbok-hooker-malcolm-marx-named-world-player-of-the-year#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/springbok-hooker-malcolm-marx-named-world-player-of-the-year\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Springbok hooker Malcolm Marx named World Player of the Year\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-11-24T17:39:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-11-24T18:25:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/springbok-hooker-malcolm-marx-named-world-player-of-the-year\"},\"wordCount\":281,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/springbok-hooker-malcolm-marx-named-world-player-of-the-year#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/11\/sm_1763995972.381123.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Lesotho\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/springbok-hooker-malcolm-marx-named-world-player-of-the-year#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/springbok-hooker-malcolm-marx-named-world-player-of-the-year\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/springbok-hooker-malcolm-marx-named-world-player-of-the-year\",\"name\":\"Springbok hooker Malcolm Marx named World Player of the Year - 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