Hendrikse dreams of boys playing for Boks together
Father of Jaden and Jordan wants to see them in same SA team one day
Brian Hendrikse hopes to see his sons playing in the same Springbok team one day.
His boys, Sharks scrumhalf Jaden Hendrikse and Lions flyhalf Jordan Hendrikse, have taken different paths and play for opposing franchises, but Brian dreams of them wearing the green and gold together.
“My dream is to see them play scrumhalf and flyhalf in the same Bok starting 15,” Hendrikse, of Breidbach, in Qonce (formerly King William’s Town) said.
“That would mean the world to us as his family and the community of Breidbach ... to see them play as a pair for the national team.
“It would be a reminder to everybody of their playing time here in Breidbach,” he said.
Last year, older brother Jaden, 22, got a late call-up to the Springbok bench for a Castle Lager Rugby Championship Test against Argentina in Nelson Mandela Bay after Herschel Jantjies withdrew due to injury.
Jaden has had a stellar year wearing green and gold and through his exploits has made the Number 9 jersey his own ahead of Faf de Klerk.
Jordan, 21, has been the talisman for the Lions in the past two seasons of the Vodacom United Rugby Championship.
With the Springboks unsure about their second and third flyhalf options, Jordan’s name has been mentioned among possible candidates for the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France.
However, injuries have been a setback for Jordan and have led to him being leapfrogged by Sacha Feinberg-mngomezulu and Manie Libbok, missing out on Nienabar’s 35-man Springbok squad for their upcoming European tour.
Born in Stellenbosch, Brian was also a professional sportsman in the 1980s as a goalkeeper for Glendene in the Federation Professional League.
He also played for Kuils River in the amateur ranks.
At Glendene, he played with the likes of Duncan Crowie, Boebie Solomons, Michael Smith, Edwin Sauls, Ralph Onkruid and Georgie van Niekerk, who were the emerging household names in Western Cape football at the time.
In 1986, he was named in the Western Province Football Board squad in a team that included Sean Lakay, the father of Lyle Lakay (Bafana Bafana and Cape Town City defender). In the early 90s, Brian left Cape Town and moved to the Eastern Cape to take up an education lecturer’s position at the Griffiths Mxenge College.
He played for local team Diamonds FC and managed to win his Border colours in 1992.
He took up the role of head coach for Breidbach and King Spurs in King William’s Town after he hung up his playing boots in the late 90s.
He was also a Border regional executive member and for a short time served as chair of the King William’s Town LFA.