Louis Rees-Zammit
TO MARK winning his first Wales cap against France last October, Louis Rees-Zammit sang Robbie Williams’s Angels in front of the team – yet he wasn’t even born when the song was released! In fact, he arrived in the world more than three years after that 1997 hit. It’s a stark reminder of just how young he is; he won’t leave his teenage years until 2 February.
It may seem like the 19-year-old’s progress has been as rapid as the pace he shows when put into space on the wing, but there have been a few hurdles along the way. At 12 he was told he wasn’t good enough to make it as a pro rugby player, while at 16 he was told he’d never win a Wales cap. Yet at 18 he had scored five tries in his first three starts for Gloucester and at 19 has now played in
