Enrico Ricardo "Ricky" Januarie (born 2 January 1982) is a South African professional

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player. He currently plays for

SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne Sporting Union Agen Lot-et-Garonne (), commonly referred to as SU Agen, Agen () or SUALG, is a French professional rugby union club based in Agen, Lot-et-Garonne that competes in the Pro D2, France's second division of rugby. Founded in 1908, Ag ...

of the

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second-level division in

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. He has also been a member of the

South Africa national rugby union team The South Africa national rugby union team, commonly known as the Springboks (colloquially the Boks, Bokke or Amabokoboko), is the country's national team governed by the South African Rugby Union. The Springboks play in green and gold jerse ...

, having won the

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. While he announced his retirement from international rugby in 2011, he has been playing professionally in domestic competition, mostly in France, since 2009.

Career

Januarie was one of the top players of his high school team, Weston High School, in

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, South Africa. He is known for scoring the match-winning try against

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in a 2008 Tri Nations Series match that the Springboks had won 30–28. In November 2009, whilst a member of the South African

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rugby team, Januarie joined the

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regional team Ospreys on a three-month loan arrangement, with questions of him potentially being an ineligible player due to pre-season obligations with Western Province and the 2010

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pre-season matches having been solved. In 2011, he left South Africa and joined

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in France and spent four years with the team. Januarie then signed on with

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for two years. In June 2017, he signed with

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and has been an active player on the team since then.

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