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Kenya 7s Star Collins Injera Retires From Rugby

24Jan

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Kenya 7s Star Collins Injera Retires From Rugby

Veteran Kenya Sevens star Collins Injera has announced his retirement from rugby after a sparkling career both at club and international level. Through a post on social media, Injera said he had to listen to his body after months of deliberating whether to call it quits. “Everything must come to an end, sometime. I have always said that I will know it’s time because my body will tell me. And for the past few months, it has really ‘spoken’ to me so, finally, I have decided to listen to it. As hard as this is for me, after 17 years of literal blood, sweat and tears, it’s time to step away from this great game that has given me so much more than I could ever ask for,” he wrote. His decision to hang the boots comes just two weeks after he became the 12th person to be inducted...

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