TRIBUTE TO GEORGE NORTH "YOUNG TALENT"

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George Philip North (born 13 April 1992 in King's Lynn) is a Wales international rugby union player currently playing for the Scarlets in the RaboDirect Pro12, in the position of winger.
North was born in 1992 in King's Lynn, Norfolk, his mother is from Anglesey, Wales, his father is English. His family moved to Hong Kong, on Royal Airforce duty, when he was 14 weeks old. The family returned to Anglesey on 13 January 1995 when he was aged two and he is a fluent Welsh language speaker. Educated at Llandovery College in West Wales, he played as a junior for Llangefni, Pwllheli, Rhyl and Gogledd Cymru under-16s.
After an impressive start to the 2010 season, in October 2010, he was selected to the 33 man squad for the Autumn international series. On 11 November 2010 North was named in the Wales team to face South Africa on 13 November, making him the joint third youngest player to represent Wales behind Tom Prydie and Norman Biggs and equal to Evan Williams.

North made an impressive start to his international career on Saturday 13 November 2010 in a match against the reigning World Champions, by scoring two tries for Wales as they lost to South Africa 29--25 in the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, Wales. He set a number of Welsh and international records in the match: North, aged 18 years, 214 days, became the youngest player ever to score a try in his debut for Wales. The previous record holder was Tom Pearson, who was aged 18 years, 238 days when he scored against England in 1891. He also became the youngest player to have scored two tries in his debut, with the opposition being a major rugby nation. (The only younger player to have scored two or more tries in his debut was Gustavo Jorge of Argentina, who was not yet 18 when he scored six tries in his debut in 1989—but the Pumas' opponent was Brazil, who have never qualified for the World Cup.) He also became the youngest player ever to have scored two tries against a major rugby nation, whether on his debut or not. The previous record holder was James O'Connor of Australia, who was aged 18 years, 343 days when he scored a hat-trick against Italy in 2009. (Taylor Paris of Canada turned 18 in October 2010 and scored two tries in his second appearance against Spain on the same day as North's debut, but Spain is also not considered a major rugby nation, although they have qualified for one World Cup.) North is the first player of any age to have scored two tries while making his debut against South Africa. Over 500 players have made their international debut against the Springboks, and 34 of them had scored tries on their debut before North, but none had scored two tries.

In September 2011 North scored two tries against Namibia, making him the youngest ever try scorer at a Rugby World Cup competition aged 19 years and 166 days and beating the record set by Australian Joe Roff

Up to the point of his international call-up, North had played six matches for the Scarlets first team, a record restricted by an injury.

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[Rugbyfor2ife]

@jonafromwales well um if you look at the time I uploaded this video you would know. I didn't make this video yesterday.

[jmac6t7]

I'm a proud Englishman and I think that North is a sensational player in a frighteningly strong, skillful, creative + confident Welsh setup and I love watching Wales play. Whether he ever approaches the epic heights of a Jonah Lomu, we'll have to wait and see....tomorrow, I think you Welsh boys will win......just....but I'm expecting it to be a humdinger! And if Wales do win, good on 'yer! You have a monster of a team who are scintillating to watch in full flow.

[MadeToBeWelsh]

The 3 haters which disliked this are most likely to be English. Who are shitting themselves at what this lad is going to do to their team!

[bobcrivens]

Nice direct running.

[buffalopeach2]

modern day jonah lomu!

[ThatEnglishGuy100]

No offemce but he's really over-rated

[marcuspotts]

1:21 He runs behind the player on the dummy run - blatant obstruction, still one of the best wings in the game at the moment. (Coming from an Englishman - get over it)

[rhysowenjones]

I think that it is really important that we don't put too much pressure on him. Yes, he is an amazing player but he is still only 19 so it's important that we just let him play. Well done George, show them that there is talent in North Wales ;)

[MadeToBeWelsh]

Against England we played the worst we have in this tournament so far, and England played exceptionally well! however you have to look at it this way, if we can play bad against an England squad which is playing good, that show's that when we play good, we will do damage to the score board! CYMRU AM BYTH!!

[MadeToBeWelsh]

@14rugby4life i doubt very much he will be the next 'williams', he's too big to be as agile as shane, to squeeze past the players. He has to do a different style of Rugby to Shane, where shane couldn't have the advantage of running through players he had the pace and stamina to run around them, where North can 60% of the time run through them, so i think its better to say 'will he be the next Lomu' .. but thats just me, others may think different:-)

[MadeToBeWelsh]

@superlupasarous had no highlights? within the first minute he came crashing through the English deffence? don't get me wrong England played the best they have in the six nations against us and we played the worst, but if we can win against England playing their best and we were playing our worst, what does that tell you?..

[ieuanreynoldsrocks]

George North is my inspiration, when i play on the wing; I wish i could be him or at least like him.

[superlupasarous]

@MadeToBeWelsh Love how he really had no highlights. Sit down, Manu's coming your way!?