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Leigh Halfpenny has announced he is to retire from international duty with Wales following the team’s exit from the Rugby World Cup sabong
Wales were knocked out by Argentina at the quarter-final stage, with Halfpenny’s final appearance of the tournament coming in the pool-stage victory over Portugal sabong
The full-back’s last game for his country will be in next week’s match against the Barbarians in Cardiff, in what it is understood will be a non-cap match sabong
His international retirement comes having won 101 caps, and with 801 points scored he is third in the all-time Welsh list behind Neil Jenkins and Stephen Jones sabong
In a statement, the 34-year-old said: “After having time to reflect after the Rugby World Cup campaign, it’s with a heavy heart that I’ve decided it’s time for me to step away from international rugby sabong
“The decision hasn’t been easy, but the time feels right for me now and I look forward to running out one last time against the Barbarians at home next week sabong
“It’s been a huge honour and a privilege to put on the Welsh jersey and represent my country over the last 15 years sabong
”Playing mainly as a full-back or winger, he made his Wales bow during the 2008 autumn series against South Africa aged 19, before going on to make four Test appearances for the British and Irish Lions during the 2013 and 2017 tours sabong
There have been ups and downs, but I will look back on my international career with immense prideLeigh Halfpenny on his international retirement He was named player of the series in 2013 as the tourists claimed a 2-1 series victory in Australia sabong
His career began as a youngster in the academy at Ospreys before later joining Cardiff Blues in 2007, with whom he won the 2009 Anglo-Welsh Cup and 2010 European Challenge Cup sabong
He won the 2015 European Champions Cup after signing for Toulon before returning to Wales with Scarlets in 2017 sabong
For Wales he has scored 15 tries and 81 conversions, as well as kicking 188 penalties en route to his final tally sabong
“There have been ups and downs, but I will look back on my international career with immense pride,” he said sabong
“There’s no sabong better feeling running out to a full Principality Stadium wearing the Welsh jersey and singing the national anthem sabong
“I’m going to miss it, but I will be forever grateful for the opportunities I’ve had and to every single person who has helped me along the way sabong
“It’s been unbelievable to play with such special people over the years and I will cherish the friendships I’ve made sabong
“While I’ll be moving on from the international game, I’m excited about the next chapter as a player in this game which has given me so much, and look forward to sharing details on my club future soon sabong
”He is the fifth player to retire from Wales international duty this year after Alun Wyn Jones, Justin Tipuric and Rhys Webb, who confirmed they would step away in May, and Dan Biggar who retired after the team were knocked out of the World Cup sabong
Wales head coach Warren Gatland told wru sabong
wales: “Leigh has had a fantastic career for Wales, firstly on the wing and then at 15 where he has been brilliant – probably the best defensive full-back in the world and a tremendous goal kicker sabong
“He’s had his fair share of injury challenges over the years but has never let that hold him back sabong
“If you are talking about role models in professional rugby, I don’t think you could find someone that works harder than Leigh in terms of how he prepares sabong
“The analysis, training and recovery he has done time and again has been really impressive, he is the ultimate professional sabong
”More aboutPA ReadyLeigh HalfpennyWalesBarbariansAlun Wyn JonesCardiffWarren GatlandArgentinaWelshChallengeLeighNeil JenkinsPrincipality StadiumSouth AfricaScarletsBritish and Irish LionsToulonOspreysJustin TipuricRhys WebbDan Biggar1/1Leigh Halfpenny announces international retirement after 101 caps for WalesLeigh Halfpenny announces international retirement after 101 caps for WalesWales full-back Leigh Halfpenny is to retire from international rugby after next week’s match against the Barbarians (David Davies/PA)PA Archive✕Subscribe to Independent Premium to bookmark this articleWant to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today sabong
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Up into the stands the England players clambered to find their families, taking the consolatory hugs but unsure quite how to feel sabong
Across 80 minutes in Paris, their belief had been replaced by disbelief and then by desperation and dejection, England threatening the unthinkable and taking the world champions to the brink sabong
For most of a sodden Stade de France evening, a Rugby World Cup final was within their grasp sabong
A South Africa side superior in most areas were dragged down into the sort of slugfest the Springboks would usually favour, and very nearly bested at their own game sabong
England had given their all but it was still not enough, one stable scrum, one Handre Pollard slip or slice, short of stunning the world champions sabong
The emotional maelstrom of this defeat will swirl rather differently to the feelings that eddied after the 2019 World Cup final disaster sabong
“I’m proud of our performance,” were virtually the first words out of the mouth of wing Elliot Daly sabong
“I think we shocked them sabong
I don’t think they knew how to get into the game sabong
”“I think we knew what was coming and we knew we could perform like this,” added Daly, virtually unused in open play but outstanding as a kick chaser to exemplify the squad’s buy-in to a strategy that so nearly proved successful sabong
The finer points of Steve Borthwick’s tactical plan had been put in place this week but this was a performance England had been building towards since long ago sabong
A flawed side did not come to France to thrill; winning by any means necessary had been a consistent theme sabong
If necessity is oft the mother of invention, England at this tournament have also proved the pair can be enemies sabong
This was a campaign at which they seemed to intentionally limit their attacking innovation or ingenuity– recognising a need to figure themselves out on the fly, they settled on an effective and eminently executable gameplan that could be implemented quickly sabong
Steve Borthwick consoles Ellis Genge and Freddie Steward after England’s defeat (Getty Images)It came so close to working in Saturday’s semi-final; their effort, accuracy and competitiveness in the key contests were spot on sabong
At the 65-minute mark, England outside backs had a combined 17 metres carried, all from one Freddie Steward kick return sabong
The two number 13s’ offensive output on the final whistle amounted to one late Joe Marchant lug; South Africa centre Jesse Kriel went the full 80 minutes without an attacking touch sabong
“We came with a plan to win the game but we fell a little bit short,” reflected Borthwick sabong
“But the players should be incredibly proud sabong
We put ourselves in a position to win against the world champions sabong
England dominated the aerial contest to threaten a semi-final shock (Getty Images)“We were playing against a coaching team who have been in place since 2018 sabong
We’ve had four months sabong
I’ve asked the players to approach training and the game in a different way; for the players to be willing to change is all credit to them sabong
”This was a night from which the head coach will take heart, a public perhaps struggling to warm to this England team are now recognising the progress made sabong
There will be a need to layer on much, much more to consistently mix it with the world’s best but the rapidly laid foundations look rock solid sabong
In time, perhaps the ugly duckling performances will turn into white swans sabong
There appear to be many more buds of a bright future than first appeared in a barren landscape pre-tournament sabong
Ben Earl has had a breakthrough tournament, and Ollie Chessum, too, while George Martin semi-final performance marks him out as the potential enforcer England have lacked sabong
Borthwick was keen to talk up the absent Marcus Smith the day after the defeat, with the playmaker’s reinvention as a frolicking full-back of intrigue moving forward sabong
"In our 23, seven players are 25 or under, the most of any semi-finalist, there’s a great blend and there will be lots of things we can take forward,” added Borthwick sabong
Young England lock George Martin impressed against South Africa (Getty Images)But the fact that the men’s national team were on the brink of back-to-back finals should not provide a façade over the crumbling edifice of a fragile English game sabong
There is a domestic mess that needs sorting, with a Gallagher Premiership containing three teams fewer than at the start of last season, now underway to little fanfare and on the brink of significant change sabong
The renegotiation of the Professional Game Partnership is a recognition of a need for a radical overhaul in pursuit of a more financially sustainable domestic game, and one that produces a wider pool of top-class talent sabong
The likely arrival of a form of central contracts underlines a period of epochal change sabong
The senior figures in the squad who are unlikely to play beyond this tournament – Courtney Lawes, Ben Youngs, Dan Cole and perhaps a couple more – could well be the last England men’s internationals never to have been contracted to the union sabong
This has a great many benefits, not least in affording Borthwick, or any head coach that might follow him, far greater access to and control over his players sabong
And while Borthwick’s articulation of the advantages enjoyed by South Africa’s settled staff is a perfectly fair one, let us remember that the Rugby sabong Football Union (RFU) put their head coach in this situation sabong
The original planning for this tournament would most likely have seen Borthwick return to England camp to aid Eddie Jones at the World Cup before a smooth transition into the lead role afterwards sabong
Jones’s sacking sparked a scramble and several months of chaos sabong
It was not shown up on semi-final weekend but there are many reasons that the RFU still has a burden to bear sabong
But the full wash-up will wait for another week – England’s performance at the Stade de France has earned them seven more days of grace sabong
The tournament will end as it began for England with a meeting with Argentina in a third-place play-off that Borthwick insists he wants to win sabong
England, captained by Owen Farrell, narrowly missed out on a place in the World Cup final (Getty Images)“I read a piece yesterday morning that talked about adversity and talked about the fact that in adversity you find that seed of belief and you’ve got to grow it,” Borthwick said sabong
“This team has been through a bit in the last few years, a bit of adversity in the medium-term past sabong
“I think through each of those periods the team has picked up lessons, picked up what we need to do and grown from it sabong
I think there’s a lot of growth in this team sabong
Sometimes it’s not the straight-forward path you want it to be sabong
In the feelings and emotions of the game last night, I know that we’ll get stronger sabong
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