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Retirement blues: Unlike footballers, rugby players don’t ‘omba serikali’

Kenyans Collins Injera evades a tackle during a HSBC Paris Sevens Series rugby match between Kenya and New Zealand at the Stade Jean Bouin, Paris in 2016. [AFP]

Have you ever wondered why there are fewer retired rugby players who live in penury in slums or are vegetating in shags? Unlike footballers, rugby players retire in relative creature comfort and hardly fundraise for rent or medical bills. Most hardly sink into alcoholism, which speeds up premature ageing and with it, opportunistic illnesses.

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