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A historic moment. @Springboks first Rugby World Cup Final try and what a score it was. Mapimpi ? AM#RWC2019 #RWCFinal pic.twitter.com/6j2TqlDn1q -- Rugby World Cup (@rugbyworldcup) November 4, 2019

Lukhanyo Am has explained why he passed to Makazole Mapimpi in the World Cup final when he could have scored himself. The Springboks were leading England 18-12 in the 66th minute when Am called for scrumhalf Faf de Klerk to send the ball to the short side. It went through the hands of Am himself and Malcolm Marx to Mapimpi, who kicked ahead. Am then regathered the ball inside England's 22 and unselfishly put his friend away to score the Boks' first-ever try in a World Cup final.'I could have scored,' Am told the Sunday Times of London while with the Barbarians. 'There was no player in front of me. Elliot Daly was more behind me or coming from the side. If maybe he had tackled me, momentum would have taken me over. What came in my head was, "Don't wait, don't think about it, just make the pass".' Am said what Mapimpi had achieved would inspire South Africans in the townships. 'It really has been amazing, His journey from where he was to where he is right now. Back home that gives a lot of hope to people who feel they can walk in his footsteps. It is possible.'