South African rugby union player
Rugby player
Sako Makata
Full name Sakoyisa Makata Date of birth (1998-09-10 ) 10 September 1998 (age 26) Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) Weight 103 kg (227 lb) School Stirling High School , East London
Sakoyisa Makata (born (1998-09-10 ) 10 September 1998) is a South African rugby sevens player for the South Africa national team , where his regular position is a forward.
Biography
Makata attended Stirling High School in East London , where he played rugby for the school's first team, also representing Border at the Under-18 Craven Week in 2016.[ 1] He joined the SA Rugby Sevens Academy in 2017 and also played for Western Province U19 in the 2017 Under-19 Provincial Championship [ 2] and for Western Province U21 in the 2018 Under-21 Provincial Championship .[ 3]
After playing for the Sevens Academy side from 2017 to 2019, Makata was also included in the South Africa national sevens squad prior to the 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series .[ 4] In February 2019, He was named in the Blitzboks squad for the Las Vegas Sevens ,[ 1] and he made his debut in their opening match in that tournament, a 26–0 victory over Japan .[ 5]
Makata was part of the South African team that won their second Commonwealth Games gold medal in Birmingham in 2022.[ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9]
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