At 32, the third-row and former Wallabies stalwart is calling it quits after failing to win his place at the Olympic Games in France next summer (July 26-August 11).
Third row and former captain of the Wallabies Michael Hooper (32 years old, 125 tests) announced on social networks this Sunday June 30 that he will end his career after playing in two World Cups and winning the Rugby Championship in 2015.
A 2015 World Cup finalist with the Wallabies, “Michael has been an incredible player and ambassador for our game,” Australia Rugby director-general Bill Walk said in a press release. Hooper, who captained Australia (69 off 125), was not selected by coach Eddie Jones to play in his third World Cup in France last autumn.
In the summer of 2022, he was out for two months after being treated for depression. He then missed three Australian Tests due to a leg injury. With his club the NSW Waratahs, he spent ten seasons starting with the ACT Brumbies, who won the 2014 edition of Super Rugby.
Recently, he tried to enter the rugby sevens with the hope of participating in the Paris Olympic Games (July 26 – August 11), but, as he himself wrote on his Instagram account on Sunday, he will not make the trip in the end. France.
“What an adventure! My Olympic journey ends and with it, my career as a rugby player,” he says. To the Australian Sevens team, you were a great, helpful and talented team. Athletes.” “An incredible career: you'll be one of the best,” World Rugby responded to his message.
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