18 SEP 2019 | Hong Kong’s thoroughbred rugby stalwart Nick Hewson calls time on his career
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4. 18 SEP 2019 | Hong Kong’s thoroughbred rugby stalwart Nick Hewson calls time on his career


Date: 18 SEP 2019

Source: SCMP

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In one respect, Nick Hewson never thought his Hong Kong rugby career would last long.

“I always went into a test thinking it would be my last,” said the 35-year-old Hewson. “That was always my thinking, that I had to play well and prove myself.”

Fifty-eight matches later for the 15-a-side team, as well as a robust sevens career, and Hewson has the honour of calling himself Hong Kong’s most capped player.

He has decided to call it a day after a recurring knee injury required surgery, and Hewson, who first came to Hong Kong from Taranaki in the North Island of New Zealand in 2005 as a spry 21-year-old, is now looking on an unexpected yet impressive legacy.

“I originally came out for six months,” he said. “And 14 years later I’m still here.”

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