Leicester Tigers will welcome World Cup-winning fly-half Handré Pollard to the club ahead of the 2022/23 season.
The South Africa international will make the move to Leicester from French club Montpellier.
The 27-year-old has been capped on 60 occasions by the Springboks since making his Test debut against Scotland in 2014 while still a member of the South Africa Under-20s squad.
Pollard played youth rugby for Western Province, in Cape Town, while attending Paarl Gimnasium School and was selected for South Africa Schoolboys in 2012.
“I don’t know the whole history of Leicester Tigers, but this is a club that is so well renowned worldwide,” Pollard said.
“Everybody I have spoken to about playing there, for Tigers or an away team, say it’s the one stadium that is on another level.”
Pollard will link up with his new Leicester Tigers team-mates at the conclusion of international commitments ahead of the 2022/23 season.
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