FROM THE VAULT | Du'Plessis Kirifi on ball boy duty for the All Blacks at age 13

Being named in the 2025 squad is not the first taste of the All Blacks environment for dynamic loose forward Du'Plessis Kirifi. Back in 2010, smallblacks.com followed the then 13-year-old as he took on ball boy duties for the national side.

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