Jacques-Louis Potgieter (born 2 September 1984 in

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) is a South African

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player, currently playing with French side . His regular position is fly-half.

Career

He made his Super 14 debut for the against the in 2007. In

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and 2009 he joined the , but was reunited with his team-mates in 2010. For the 2011 season, he joined the .

France

In January 2012, he signed for French

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side Bayonne as a medical joker for the

2011–12 Top 14 season The 2011–12 Top 14 competition was a French domestic rugby union club competition operated by the Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR). Home-and-away play began on August 26, 2011. Two new teams from the 2010–11 Rugby Pro D2 season were promoted to ...

, then signed a one-year full-time contract for the 2012–13 Top 14 season. Prior to the

2013–14 Rugby Pro D2 season The 2013–14 Rugby Pro D2 is the second-level French rugby union club competition, behind the Top 14, for the 2013–14 season. It ran alongside the 2013–14 Top 14 competition; both competitions are operated by the Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LN ...

, he joined

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on a two-year deal, but gained an early release from this contract at the start of 2014.

Return to South Africa

He then returned to the prior to the 2014 Super Rugby season on a two-year contract, which he then extended until October 2016.

Return to France

Potgieter left the Blue Bulls after the

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, joining French

side . After two seasons at Lyon, he joined their compatriots on a three-year deal.

Education

Potgieter attended

Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (also known as Affies), is a public Afrikaans medium high school for boys situated in the suburb of Elandspoort in Pretoria in the Gauteng province of South Africa. The school was founded in 1920 by Jan Joubert and ...

(Afrikaans High School for Boys, also known as Affies), a public school located in Pretoria. He attended alongside former Bulls teammates

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, Wynand Olivier,

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and

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, lock

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, former Stade Français lock

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References

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