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IS DE VILLIERS CURSED? South Africa’s captain ends Springbok career after World Cup fracture

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Samoa's flanker TJ Ioane (C) tackles South Africa's centre and captain Jean de Villiers during the Pool B match of the 2015 Rugby World Cup between South Africa and Samoa at Villa Park in Birmingham, central England. South Africa captain Jean de Villiers on September 27, 2015

Jean de Villiers once dryly remarked he had been to two World Cups and spent only two nights in the team hotel such has been his ill fortune with injuries at the rugby showpiece.

The 34-year-old dashing South African centre managed a few more nights this time, but on Sunday his third and final World Cup campaign and international career came to an end with a fractured jaw suffered in the Pool B game against Samoa.

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