Retirement from professional sport can often prove a bitter pill for athletes to swallow, but George Kruis ' appetite to advance his off-field interests will make his impending departure a lot less bitter.
The rugby community was stunned when the former Saracens talisman announced in February, on his 32nd birthday, that the current season would be his last. Despite there being a hunger for the player to return to England in time for next year's Rugby World Cup in France, British and Irish Lions -capped Kruis has ambitions extending beyond 2023.
It's fitting that a player who's spent so much of his career as a champion of player welfare will remain a bastion for that same cause in the next phase of life. Kruis—who left London for Saitama (formerly Panasonic) Wild Knights in 2020—has a growing empire in FourFive, the wellness brand he founded alongside former Sarries team-mate Dominic Day in 2019.
