The
2011 mid-year rugby Test series, staged in July and August 2011, served as a series of warm-up fixtures for the
2011 Rugby World CupThe 2011 Rugby World Cup was the seventh Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. The International Rugby Board selected New Zealand as the host country in preference to Japan and South Africa at a meeting in Dublin on 17 November 2005...
. Most of the matches were played in the
northern hemisphereThe Northern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is north of its equator—the word hemisphere literally means “half sphere”. It is also that half of the celestial sphere north of the celestial equator...
, parallel to the
2011 Tri Nations SeriesThe 2011 Tri Nations Series was the sixteenth annual Tri Nations rugby union series between the national rugby union teams of New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, respectively nicknamed the All Blacks, Wallabies, and Springboks. It was also the last series in which only three teams...
involving New Zealand,
AustraliaThe Australian national rugby union team is the representative side of Australia in rugby union. The national team is nicknamed the Wallabies and competes annually with New Zealand and South Africa in the Tri-Nations Series, in which they also contest the Bledisloe Cup with New Zealand and the...
and
South AfricaThe South African national rugby union team are 2009 British and Irish Lions Series winners. They are currently ranked as the fourth best team in the IRB World Rankings and were named 2008 World Team of the Year at the prestigious Laureus World Sports Awards.Although South Africa was instrumental...
.
This was the first time since 1973, and only the second in the past 50 years, that no team representing the
Home UnionsHome Nations is a collective term with one of two meanings depending on the context. Politically, it means the nations of the constituent countries of the United Kingdom...
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EnglandThe England national rugby union team represents England in rugby union. They compete in the annual Six Nations Championship with France, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, and Wales. They have won this championship on 26 occasions, 12 times winning the Grand Slam, making them the most successful team in...
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IrelandThe Ireland national rugby union team represents the island of Ireland in rugby union. The team competes annually in the Six Nations Championship and every four years in the Rugby World Cup, where they reached the quarter-final stage in all but two competitions The Ireland national rugby union...
,
ScotlandThe Scotland national rugby union team represent Scotland in international rugby union. Rugby union in Scotland is administered by the Scottish Rugby Union. The Scotland rugby union team is currently ranked eighth in the IRB World Rankings as of 19 September 2011...
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WalesThe Wales national rugby union team represent Wales in international rugby union tournaments. They compete annually in the Six Nations Championship with England, France, Ireland, Italy and Scotland. Wales have won the Six Nations and its predecessors 24 times outright, second only to England with...
, or the
British and Irish LionsThe British and Irish Lions is a rugby union team made up of players from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales...
) toured the southern hemisphere in the mid-year window.
In June 2011, Wales played against the
BarbariansThe Barbarian Football Club, usually referred to as the Barbarians and nicknamed the "Baa-Baas", is an invitational rugby union team based in Britain...
at the
Millennium StadiumThe Millennium Stadium is the national stadium of Wales, located in the capital, Cardiff. It is the home of the Wales national rugby union team and also frequently stages games of the Wales national football team, but is also host to many other large scale events, such as the Super Special Stage...
to mark the 130th anniversary of the
Welsh Rugby UnionThe Welsh Rugby Union is the governing body of rugby union in Wales, recognised by the International Rugby Board.The union's patron is Queen Elizabeth II, and her grandson Prince William of Wales became the Vice Royal Patron of the Welsh Rugby Union as of February 2007.-History:The roots of the...
. The WRU announced in April that it would award full
TestTest match in rugby union is a match recognised as being a full international match by at least one of the participating teams' governing bodies. It is an unofficial but widely used term in the sport....
capsIn sports, a cap is a metaphorical term for a player's appearance on a select team, such as a national team. The term dates from the practice in the United Kingdom of awarding a cap to every player in an international match of association football...
for this match.
Although most matches were scheduled for the northern hemisphere, a number of matches were also played in the southern hemisphere:
- Argentina
The Argentina national rugby team, nicknamed Los Pumas, represents Argentina in international rugby union matches. The team, which plays in sky blue and white jerseys, is organised by the Argentine Rugby Union .Argentina played its first international rugby match in 1910 against a touring British...
hosted three non-capped matches—a two-match tour in June by the French Barbarians, which was split 1–1, and a one-off match in August in which the Pumas routed a "South American Invitational XV".
- Australia hosted Samoa
The Manu Samoa is the men's representative side of the Samoa Rugby Union in both the 15's and the 7's for international competitions. The Samoa Rugby Union is owned by the affiliated rugby unions of Samoa. In Samoa, Manu Samoa is in honour of a famous Samoan warrior. From 1924 to 1997 Samoa was...
on 17 July in Sydney, with Manu Samoa scoring their first-ever win over Australia.
- Five days later, the All Blacks entertained and easily defeated Fiji
The Fiji national rugby union team is a member of the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance formerly along with Samoa and Tonga. In 2009, Samoa announced their departure from the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance, leaving just Fiji and Tonga. Fiji are ranked sixteenth in the world by the IRB as of 26...
. This was the final Test at CarisbrookCarisbrook was a major sporting venue in Dunedin, New Zealand. The city's main domestic and international rugby union venue, it has also been used for other sports such as cricket, football, rugby league and motocross. Carisbrook has also hosted a Joe Cocker concert and frequently hosted pre-game...
in DunedinDunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until...
, which was replaced by Forsyth Barr Stadium in time for the World Cup.
- In August, Fiji hosted a two-match tour by Tonga
The Tonga national rugby union team is nicknamed Ikale Tahi . Like their Polynesian neighbours, the Tongans start their matches with a war dance – the Kailao . They are members of the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance along with Fiji and Samoa...
, which was split 1–1.
- Also in August, the Australian Barbarians invitational side hosted and defeated Canada
The Canada national rugby union team represents Canada in international rugby union. They are governed by Rugby Canada, and play in red and black. Canada is classified by the International Rugby Board as a tier two rugby nation. There are ten tier one nations, and seven tier two nations, the...
in a non-capped affair.
Several countries also played domestic sides in non-capped warm-up matches:
- The most extensive such tour was that of Russia
The Russian National Rugby Union Team, is the national team representing Russia at the sport of rugby union.Rugby union in Russia is administered by the Rugby Union of Russia . The RUR is the official successor union of the Soviet Union and the combined CIS team which played in the early 1990s...
, who visited England and Wales for a total of four matches against English Premiership and Celtic LeagueThe Celtic League is an annual rugby union competition involving professional sides from Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales....
sides, losing all four.
- Georgia
The Georgia national rugby union team represents Georgia in rugby union. The team's nickname, The Lelos, comes from lelo burti, a traditional Georgian sport with strong similarities to rugby. Lelo has been adopted as the Georgian word for "try"...
swept a two-match tour in France, the playing base of most of its World Cup player pool, against sides in the country's second-tier league, Pro D2Rugby Pro D2, also known as Pro D2 is the second level of domestic club rugby union in France, below the first division, Top 14. The competition was introduced in 2000. There is relegation and promotion between both the Top 14 and Fédérale 1, the third-level competition...
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- Argentina defeated Premiership newcomers Worcester Warriors.
- Ireland defeated one of its professional provincial sides, Connacht
Connacht Rugby is an Irish professional rugby union team based in Connacht that competes in the RaboDirect Pro12 comprising teams from the Celtic nations plus Italy. Normally, it also competes in the second-tier pan-European club competition, the European Challenge Cup...
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- Japan
The Japan national rugby union team represent Japan in international rugby union competitions. Japan is traditionally the strongest rugby union power in Asia but has both enjoyed and endured mixed results against non-Asian teams over the years...
defeated a side selected from the country's main competition, Top LeagueThe Top League is a professional rugby union league created by the Japan Rugby Football Union to drive up the overall standard and popularity of the sport in the country and improve the results of the Japan national rugby union team. The first season was 2003-04 and featured 12 teams...
.
- Romania
The Romania national rugby union team , nicknamed The Oaks , is the representative side of Romania in rugby union. Long considered one of the stronger European teams outside the Six Nations, they have participated in all six Rugby World Cups, and currently compete in the first division of the...
visited and lost to Pro D2 side PérigueuxClub Athlétique Périgueux Dordogne is a French rugby union club that currently competes in the second division of French club rugby, the Pro D2 competition. Périgueux played in the higher divisions in the early 2000s but were relegated from Rugby Pro D2 after the 2004-05 season...
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- Canada also played in what was called an "opposed training session"—not an official match—with a side billed as a "Queensland Reds
The Queensland Reds represent Queensland in the sport of rugby union in the Southern Hemisphere Super Rugby competition. Prior to 1996 they were a representative team selected on merit from the rugby union club competitions in Queensland...
XV", minus players on duty with the Australia national team. The Canucks outscored the Reds.
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Ugo Monye Ugochukwu "Ugo" Chiedozie Monye is an English international rugby union player who plays club rugby for Harlequins in the Aviva Premiership....
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Charlie Hodgson Charles Christopher Hodgson is an English rugby union footballer. He plays fly-half for Saracens and England. He is also the leading Premiership points scorer of all time.-Early years:...
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Paul Hodgson Paul Hodgson, born 25 April 1982 in Epsom, Surrey is an English rugby union player.Hodgson plays for London Irish in the Aviva Premiership, as a Scrum-half-Early career:...
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Luke Narraway Luke Narraway is a rugby union footballer who plays for Gloucester Rugby.-Club career:Narraway joined Gloucester Rugby from The King's School, Worcester after 4 years at The Chantry High School, Worcestershire...
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Carl Fearns Carl Fearns is a rugby union player for Bath Rugby in the Aviva Premiership. He plays as a back-row.Fearns made his Sale debut in an EDF Energy Cup match against Cardiff Blues, winning the Man of the Match award....
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Tom Johnson Tom Johnson is a professional Rugby Union player for Exeter Chiefs in the Aviva Premiership. Tom was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham. His position of choice is Flanker or Number eight....
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Dave Attwood Dave Attwood is a rugby union player who plays at Lock for Bath Rugby in the Aviva Premiership.-Early career:...
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Paul Doran-Jones Paul Doran-Jones is a rugby union footballer, currently playing in the Aviva Premiership for Northampton Saints. He plays as a prop.-Club career:...
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David Paice David Paice is a rugby union footballer who plays at hooker or prop for London Irish.Paice participated in the 2007 Churchill Cup.He was later called into the England Saxons side that defeated Ireland A on 1 February 2008....
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Joe Marler Joe Marler is a rugby union player for Harlequins in the Aviva Premiership, playing primarily as a prop. Marler was called up to the England U20's squad for the 2009 U20 Six Nations, but was sadly injured throughout. He was called up to represent England U20's throughout the Junior World...
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Kieran Brookes Kieran Brookes is an English rugby player who plays with Leicester Tigers as a prop.-Club career:He made almost 40 senior appearances for Newcastle but only started 1 game in the 2009–2010 season....
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James Gaskell James Gaskell is a rugby union player for Sale Sharks in the Aviva Premiership. He plays as a flanker or lock. After making the debut for Sale in 2008, Gaskell was named the club's Breakthrough Player of the Year for the 2009/10 season...
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Jamie Gibson Jamie Gibson is an English rugby union player who plays at flanker for London Irish in the Aviva Premiership. He was a member of the Grand Slam winning England U18 side in 2008 and is currently a member of the England Under 20 team that reached the third place play off in the 2010 JWC...
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Micky Young Michael Young is a Scrum half for Rugby Union team Leicester Tigers in the Aviva Premiership. He is a product of West Hartlepool Rugby Club junior academy.-Club Career:...
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Stephen Myler Stephen Myler is an English rugby union player who plays at Fly-half for Northampton Saints in the Aviva Premiership.-Rugby league career:...
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Jordan Turner-Hall Jordan Turner-Hall born 5 January 1988 in London, England is a rugby union player for Harlequins in the Aviva Premiership, playing primarily as a Centre but can also play on the Wing....
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Benoît Baby Benoît Baby is a French rugby union footballer, currently playing for Biarritz Olympique in the élite domestic championship, the Top 14. He usually plays at centre, but also at fullback and fly-half and has represented France.Baby made his début for the national team during the 2005 Six Nations,...
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Mathieu Bastareaud Mathieu Bastareaud is a French rugby union centre who plays for Toulon.- Stade Francais :Bastareaud played for Creteil Rugby youth squads and then moved to Massy. He went through the junior academy there and played for the third division club SU Massy...
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Frédéric Michalak Frédéric Michalak is a French rugby union footballer, who currently plays in South Africa for the Sharks in Super Rugby and the Natal Sharks in the Currie Cup. His early career was spent playing for his hometown team, Toulouse, in the Top 14 and in the Heineken Cup...
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Joe van Niekerk Johann "Joe" van Niekerk is a South African rugby union player, who generally plays either as a flanker or number 8...
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Quintin Geldenhuys Quintin Geldenhuys is a South Africa-born Italian rugby union player. Geldenhuys, who is a lock, acts as captain of the Italian Pro12 franchise Aironi. He made his debut for Italy against Australia on 13 June 2009. He qualified for Italy through residency.-References:...
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Leonardo Ghiraldini Leonardo Ghiraldini is an Italian rugby union player for Benetton Rugby Treviso in the RaboDirect Pro12.Ghiraldini's position of choice is at Hooker.-Underage & 'A' Level:...
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Salvatore Perugini Salvatore Perugini is an Italian rugby union player, currently playing for Aironi in the RaboDirect Pro12 club competition. He has also been capped for the Italian national team, making his debut in 2000 against Italy. His usual position is at prop...
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Sébastien Bruno Sébastien Bruno is a French rugby union footballer who plays as a hooker for Toulon and formerly for France. Born in Nîmes, Bruno joined Sale Sharks from French club Béziers, making his debut against Leicester Tigers in 2004. He made his international debut in 2002 against Wales, and was selected...
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Sébastien Tillous-Borde Sébastien Tillous-Borde is a French rugby union player. He plays scrum-half for his club rugby with Castres Olympique. He won his first international cap for France against Australia in 2008.-Notes:...
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Willie MasonWilliam Marshall "Willie" Mason is an Australian professional rugby union footballer for Toulon in the Top 14 competition, having previously being a rugby league footballer for Hull KR in the European Super League.Mason signed a 3-year contract with Hull KR in September 2010, pending a successful...
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- The traditionally uncapped player of the Barbarians side was Tim Visser. (Willie Mason was also uncapped in rugby union but he was capped in rugby league, having switched codes a few weeks before the game when signing to Toulon
RC Toulonnais is a French professional rugby union club based in Toulon in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur...
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Morgan Stoddart Morgan Lloyd Stoddart is a Welsh international rugby union player. His usual position is at fullback.He currently plays for Welsh regional side the Scarlets and plays international rugby for Wales.- Treorchy RFC :...
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George North George Philip North is a Wales international rugby union player currently playing for the Scarlets in the RaboDirect Pro12, in the position of winger.-Early life:...
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Gavin HensonGavin Lloyd Henson is a Welsh rugby union player, born in Pencoed, South Wales, currently playing for Cardiff Blues.He attracted much media attention as part of a Wales national team which achieved Grand Slams in the Six Nations Championship in 2005 and 2008...
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Aled Brew Aled Brew is a Wales international rugby union player who plays as a winger for Newport Gwent Dragons in the Celtic League. He made his debut with the Wales national rugby union team against Ireland in the 2007 Six Nations Championship.-Biography:...
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Stephen JonesStephen Michael Jones is a Welsh international rugby union player who plays primarily at fly-half for Wales, the British and Irish Lions and Scarlets....
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Mike Phillips William Michael "Mike" Phillips is a Welsh international rugby union rugby player who plays at scrum-half for Bayonne.-Personal life:...
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Toby Faletau Tangaki Taulupe "Toby" Faletau is a Wales international rugby union player. A flank forward, Faletau played for Cross Keys RFC before joining the Newport Gwent Dragons....
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Sam Warburton Sam Kennedy-Warburton , commonly known as Sam Warburton, is a Welsh rugby union player. Warburton plays regional rugby for the Cardiff Blues and was first capped for Wales in 2009...
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Dan Lydiate Dan Lydiate is a Wales international rugby union player. A flanker, Lydiate was raised in Llandrindod Wells and is a product of the Newport Gwent Dragons academy...
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Luke Charteris Luke Charteris is a Wales international rugby union player. A second row forward, he plays his club rugby for Newport Gwent Dragons.Charteris made his debut for Wales in 2004 versus South Africa in 2004 having previously represented Wales at Under 19 and Under 21 levels.Charteris was called up as a...
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Ryan Jones Ryan Paul Jones is a Welsh international rugby union player who plays at number eight for the Ospreys. He is able to cover blindside flanker and second row; he played second row in his younger days as he was kept out of his preferred number 8 role by Gareth Delve.-Early life:Jones played junior...
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Huw Bennett Huw Bennett is a Wales international rugby union footballer, who currently plays for the Ospreys in the Celtic League and the Heineken Cup. His usual position is at hooker....
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Lloyd Burns Lloyd Burns is a Wales international rugby union player. Burns plays in the hooker position and currently plays his club rugby for Newport Gwent Dragons having made his debut in the 2008–09 season. He previously played for Pontypool RFC and Cross Keys RFC...
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Scott Andrews Scott Andrews is a Wales international rugby union player. A prop forward, he plays clubs rugby for Cardiff Blues having previously played for Cardiff Blues Under 20's....
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Alun Wyn Jones Alun Wyn Jones is a Welsh international rugby union rugby player, currently playing for the Ospreys in the Celtic League. Having previously represented Wales at under-21 level, he made his Test debut for Wales in June 2006 against Argentina. Originally playing as a blindside flanker, he has shown...
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Josh Turnbull Joshua "Josh" Turnbull is a Wales international rugby union player, who currently plays as a flanker for the Scarlets in the RaboDirect Pro12 and Llanelli RFC in the Principality Premiership....
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Scott Williams Scott Williams is a Wales international rugby union player who currently plays at Centre for the Scarlets.-Amateur Years:He played for Whitland RFC before joining Llanelli RFC.In 2009, Williams joined the Scarlets....
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Isa Nacewa Isakeli Nacewa is a New Zealand-born rugby union footballer of Fijian descent. He is a utility back and represents Leinster Rugby in the RaboDirect Pro12 and Heineken Cup competitions. He previously represented the Blues in the Super Rugby competition and Auckland in the Air New Zealand Cup...
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Doug Howlett Douglas Charles Howlett is a professional New Zealand rugby union player of Tongan descent. He is primarily a wing but he has also covered fullback at national and international levels. He currently plays in Ireland with Munster. He is the brother of former Tongan rugby league international Phil...
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Sébastien Tillous-Borde Sébastien Tillous-Borde is a French rugby union player. He plays scrum-half for his club rugby with Castres Olympique. He won his first international cap for France against Australia in 2008.-Notes:...
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Paul Tito Paul Tito is a New Zealand rugby union player. His usual position is at lock. He is 1.97m tall and weighs 110 kg. He attended New Plymouth Boys' High School and represented NZ at U19 level in 1997, U21 from 1998–1999 and the NZ Maori in 2000–2001 and 2003...
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Leonardo Ghiraldini Leonardo Ghiraldini is an Italian rugby union player for Benetton Rugby Treviso in the RaboDirect Pro12.Ghiraldini's position of choice is at Hooker.-Underage & 'A' Level:...
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Willie MasonWilliam Marshall "Willie" Mason is an Australian professional rugby union footballer for Toulon in the Top 14 competition, having previously being a rugby league footballer for Hull KR in the European Super League.Mason signed a 3-year contract with Hull KR in September 2010, pending a successful...
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Benoît Baby Benoît Baby is a French rugby union footballer, currently playing for Biarritz Olympique in the élite domestic championship, the Top 14. He usually plays at centre, but also at fullback and fly-half and has represented France.Baby made his début for the national team during the 2005 Six Nations,...
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Mark Gerrard Mark Gerrard is an Australian professional rugby union footballer. He currently plays for the Melbourne Rebels in Super Rugby competition. In 2011 he was one of 10 players nominated to become the competition's Super Rugby player of the year....
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Adam Ashley-Cooper Adam Ashley-Cooper is an Australian rugby union footballer. He he has signed with the NSW Waratahs in the international Super Rugby competition for 2012 and also plays for Australia. He was educated at the Berkeley Vale High School and played his junior rugby for Ourimbah on the NSW Central Coast...
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Digby Ioane Digby Ioane is an Australian rugby union footballer playing for the Queensland Reds. He has previously played for the Western Force in their inaugural year in 2006 to 2007, and has been capped 11 times for the Wallabies.-Early life:...
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Matt Giteau Matthew Giteau is an Australian rugby union footballer, a former international who now plays for the French Top 14 side Toulon. He attended St Edmund's College, Canberra, which has produced other Wallabies including George Gregan, Matt Henjak and the former rugby league star and now coach Ricky...
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Nick Phipps Nick Phipps is a British bobsledder who competed from 1980 to 1992. He finished third in the Bobsleigh World Cup combined men's event in 1985-86....
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Ben McCalman Ben McCalman is an Australian rugby union footballer. He currently plays for the Western Force in the international Super Rugby competition, and Australia....
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Matt Hodgson Matt Hodgson, born is an Australian professional rugby union footballer. Hodgson was selected to the Qantas Wallabies squad in 2009 but sustained an injury in a non-cap match played against the Barbarians and was forced to return home...
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Rocky Elsom Rocky Elsom is a former captain of the Australia national rugby union team. Raised in Noosa on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Elsom is one of Australia's most decorated Rugby players. Elsom has played over 50 times for Australia and has over 80 Super rugby caps with the Waratahs 2003–08 and the...
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Nathan Sharpe Nathan Sharpe is an Australian rugby union player. He plays lock and is the captain of the Western Force.-Early career:...
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Sitaleki Timani Sitaleki Timani , is a Tongan rugby union player. He currently plays for the NSW Waratahs mainly playing second row.Timani made his Super Rugby debut for Western Force in 2008 against the Sharks.-References:*...
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Sekope Kepu Sekope Kepu is a young Australian prop forward for the NSW Waratahs rugby union club in the Super 14 competition. He made his debut during the 2008 season....
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James Hanson James Hanson is a rugby union player for the Queensland Reds Super 14 franchise, playing as a hooker.He made his debut against the Crusaders in February 2010....
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Dan Vickerman Daniel Vickerman is a rugby union footballer for the New South Wales Waratahs and Australia who left a successful international career in 2008 to attend the University of Cambridge, where he read a degree in Land Economy at Hughes Hall, and returned to Australian Rugby in 2011...
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Scott Higginbotham Scott Higginbotham is an Australian rugby union player. He currently plays for the Queensland Reds in the international Super 15 competition. He can play anywhere in the backrow.-Career:...
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Beau Robinson Beau Robinson is an Australian rugby union player currently contracted to the QLD Reds. Robinson made his NSW debut against the Brumbies in the 2006 Australian Provincial Championships. He plays primarily as an openside flanker and was the back-up to Phil Waugh at NSW before gaining a starting...
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Will Genia Will Genia is a Papua New Guinean-born, Australian rugby union player who plays at scrum-half for the Queensland Reds in the Super Rugby competition, in which he debuted round one, 2007. Currently, he plays for the Wallabies.-Career:...
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Kurtley Beale Kurtley Beale is an Australian representative rugby union player. His primary position is fullback.- Youth :Beale signed to the Waratahs while a 16 year old at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill. Before leaving school Beale captained the Australian Schoolboys and regularly attended training...
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Sailosi TagicakibauSailosi Tagicakibau is a rugby union footballer who plays at Wing for London Irish.-Early years:Prior to competing in professional rugby, he attended Papakura High and Wesley College....
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George Pisi George Pisi is a rugby union player for the Northampton Saints in the Aviva Premiership.Pisi made his provincial debut playing for North Harbour in 2005 alongside his elder brother Tusi Pisi. He made 50 appearances for North Harbour before transferring to Taranaki for the 2010 ITM Cup...
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Seilala Mapusua Seilala Mapusua is a Samoan rugby player currently playing with the Kubota Spears of the Japanese Top League...
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Alesana TuilagiAlesana "Alex" Tuilagi is a Samoan rugby union footballer. He currently plays for the Leicester Tigers in the English club competition, the Aviva Premiership, and has appeared numerous times for his national team Samoa...
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Tusi Pisi Tusi Pisi is a rugby union player who played for North Harbour in the Air New Zealand Cup. His position is fly half, but he has also played at centre and full back...
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George Stowers George Stowers is a Samoan international rugby union player. He currently plays for the Ospreys in the RaboDirect Pro12. He plays as a Flanker or a No.8.-Club career:...
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Maurie Fa'asavalu Maurie Fa'asavalu is a Samoan rugby union player who formerly played rugby league for St Helens. He was recently picked in the Great Britain rugby league squad after living in England for 4 years...
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Daniel LeoThis article is about the rugby player. For the boss of the Genovese crime family see Daniel Leo Daniel Leo is a Samoan rugby union footballer.-Career:Leo can play in the second row or as a back row forward...
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Kane Thompson Kane Thompson is a rugby union player. He debuted for the Highlanders in 2006. He showed he was well capable of stepping up to the higher level and he had a strong 2006 season for Southland. In 2007 he represented Manu Samoa at the Rugby World Cup.He signs to play for the Chiefs in the 2012 Super...
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Anthony Perenise Anthony Perenise is a rugby union player who plays at prop for Bath Rugby in the English Aviva Premiership.Perenise previously played for the Hawke's Bay Magpies and the Samoa.-External links:...
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Mahonri SchwalgerMahonri Schwalger is a professional rugby union footballer who plays for the Chiefs in the Super Rugby competition and for Taranaki in the ITM Cup. He is also currently the captain of the Samoan national team....
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Filipo Levi Filipo Levi is a New Zealand-born Samoan rugby union footballer.-Career:InternationalLevi is a current member of the Manu Samoa 2011 Rugby World Cup squad....
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Mils Muliaina Junior Malili Muliaina , better known as Mils Muliaina, is a rugby union player. He plays for the Chiefs in Super Rugby and New Zealand at international level. He was born in Salesi, Samoa, then moved with his family to Invercargill, New Zealand, at the age of two...
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Conrad Smith Conrad Gerard Smith is a New Zealand rugby union footballer. He is a midfield back and plays outside centre . He had been in many Taranaki age group teams. He moved to Wellington where he completed an LLB at Victoria University of Wellington...
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Ma'a Nonu Ma'a Allan Nonu is a professional Samoan rugby union player from New Zealand. Nonu plays for the Wellington Lions in the ITM Cup and the New Zealand All Blacks...
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Sitiveni SivivatuSitiveni Waica Sivivatu is a New Zealand rugby union footballer, playing on the position of a wing. He was largely successful in the 2005 Super 12 season playing for the Chiefs, and acquired a starting position in the All Blacks. He has scored 29 tries in 45 tests...
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Colin Slade Colin Slade is a rugby union footballer who represents the Highlanders in the Super 15 competition and Canterbury in the ITM Cup, playing at primarily at Fly Half, as well as all other backline positions on occasions...
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Jimmy Cowan Quinton James Cowan is a New Zealand rugby union footballer. He has been an All Black since 2004 where he made his debut during the 2004 tour to the United Kingdom and France. Cowan was born in Gore and attended Gore High School...
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Liam Messam Liam Messam is a rugby union player who plays for Waikato in the ITM Cup and for the Chiefs in Super Rugby. He has also played for the New Zealand Maori in the 2006 Churchill Cup and was in the New Zealand sevens team that won gold at the 2006 Commonwealth Games...
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Richie McCawRichard Hugh "Richie" McCaw is a New Zealand rugby union player, and is the current test captain. He plays in the openside flanker position for the New Zealand, Crusaders and Canterbury rugby teams...
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Ali Williams Alexander James "Ali" Williams is a New Zealand rugby union player at the position of lock. He represented Auckland and plays for the Blues in the Super 14, when he signed for the Tasman provincial side. In 2008, he played for the Crusaders in the Super 14 and in 2010 signed on loan for Nottingham...
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Jarrad Hoeata Jarrad Hoeata is a professional rugby union player who plays for the Highlanders in Super Rugby and represents Taranaki in the ITM Cup...
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Ben Franks Ben Franks is a rugby union player for the Crusaders in the Super Rugby competition and All Blacks. He plays as a prop.-Provincial:Franks made his provincial debut for Canterbury against Otago in 2005...
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Andrew Hore For the rugby union coach from New Zealand see Andrew Hore Andrew Hore is a rugby union player who plays for Taranaki in the ITM Cup. He has played for the All Blacks since 2002, in which time he has played 48 tests. His position is hooker...
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Wyatt Crockett Wyatt Crockett is a New Zealand rugby player who plays for the Crusaders in the super 14. He also plays for Canterbury in the Air New Zealand Cup. He attended Nelson College.He made his All Blacks debut against Italy in 2009....
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Corey Flynn Corey Flynn is a New Zealand rugby union player who plays in the position of hooker. He was educated at Southland Boys' High School.-Provincial:He played provincial for Southland until he moved to Canterbury in 2003....
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John AfoaIoane Fitu "John" Afoa is a New Zealand professional Rugby union player and plays prop and hooker. Afoa currently plays for Ulster after signing a two-and-a-half year deal after the 2011 Rugby World Cup.-Representative Rugby:...
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Jerome Kaino Jerome Kaino is a professional New Zealand Rugby union player. In 2004, he was named IRB International Under-21 player of the year.-Early life:...
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Piri Weepu Piri Awahou Tihou Weepu is a New Zealand rugby union footballer. He plays scrum-half for the All Blacks on international level, Wellington Lions in the National Provincial Championship and the Hurricanes in the Super Rugby. He first won national honours against Wales in 2004...
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Ben Smith Ben Smith is a Rugby Union player who plays provincial rugby for Otago in the ITM Cup, and for the Highlanders in the Super 15 competition. He plays as a winger and fullback.-Provincial Rugby:...
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Iliesa Keresoni Iliesa Keresoni is a Fijian rugby union footballer. He was the captain of the Lelean Memorial School 'Dream Team' of 2006 that won the Deans Trophy in the Fiji Secondary Schools Rugby Union competition of that year. He plays at fullback, wing and centre position for the Knights in the Colonial...
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Timoci Nagusa Timoci Nagusa is a Fijian rugby union footballer. He plays as a wing. He plays his rugby for French club, Montpelier. He is 1.88m and weighs 88 kg. He worked as a Police constable in Fiji before his rugby career took off...
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Albert Vulivuli Albert Vulivuli is a Fijian rugby union player. He plays as a centre or wing. His older brother, Thomas Vulivuli plays football for Fiji whereas his younger sister, Finau is one of Fiji's female football referees....
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Ravai Fatiaki Ravai Fatiaki is a Fijian rugby union player who has signed on to play for Worcester Warriors in the 2011–12 Aviva Premiership...
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Napolioni Nalaga Napolioni Vonowale Nalaga is a Fijian rugby union footballer. He plays as a wing, flanker and Centre. He is nicknamed Napoleon or Naps or Napo...
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Seremaia Bai -Career:He currently plays for Castres Olympique after signing from ASM Clermont Auvergne in 2010 who both compete in France's Top 14 competition. He also plays for the Fiji national team and the Pacific Islanders. He has played under-19s, under 21s and under 23s for the Fiji national side...
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Nemia Serelevu Nemia Kenatale is a Fijan rugby union player. He plays in the scrumhalf position for the Fiji Barbarians in the Pacific Rugby Cup. Nemia was also an understudy to Kelemedi Bola for the Knights during the Colonial Cup...
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Sakiusa Matadigo Sakiusa Masinivanua Matadigo is a rugby union footballer who plays third row for Montpellier Hérault RC. He has been capped for the full Fiji national side, as well as representing Fiji at Sevens...
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Akapusi Qera Akapusi Qera is a Fijian professional rugby union player. A Flanker or No.8, Qera is from a sporting family; his father was an international cricketer for Fiji and his brother also played international rugby for Fiji. Qera is a current test international and has also captained the national side...
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Sekonaia Kalou Sekonaia Kalou is a Fiji rugby union player who has also known by the name Sekonaia Qaranaqio. Sekonaia plays lock for the Kaikorai Rugby Football Club and for Otago in the ITM Cup...
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Deacon Manu Deacon Tehanakore Manu is a New Zealand-born Fijian rugby union footballer. He plays as a prop for the Scarlets in the Celtic League, having signed from the Chiefs in 2006.-Career:...
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Sunia Koto Sunia Koto Vuli is a Fijian rugby union player. He plays as a hooker.He played for the Fijian teams Highlanders, and Fiji Warriors, London Welsh in England, and currently Narbonne....
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Campese Ma'afu Campese Ma'afu, is a Fiji professional Rugby union footballer. Ma'afu was selected to the Fijian National squad in 2010. His older brother, Salesi Ma'afu plays for the Australian Wallabies...
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Viliame Veikoso Viliame Veikoso is a Fijian rugby union footballer. He plays as a hooker. Veikoso hails from Nabua village, tikina Koroalau from Cakaudrove Province. he is also related to Akapusi Qera of Gloucester...
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Malakai Ravulo Malakai Ravulo is a Fijan rugby union player. He is a loose forward but spent most of his youth playing as a centre. He presently plays his rugby with the North Harbour rugby team in New Zealand....
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Taniela Rawaqa Taniela Rawaqa is a Fijan rugby union player. He plays fullback, presently with the Western Crusaders in the Colonial Cup and with the Fiji Warriors in the Pacific Rugby Cup and internationally with Fiji. He is the younger brother of Fijian International Ifereimi RawaqaHe made his international...
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Vereniki Goneva Vereniki Goneva is a Fijian rugby footballer. He plays as a centre or wing.He was first spotted by the Fiji sevens coach, Waisale Serevi playing as a wing for Nadi in the Digicel Cup competition and he was impressed by his workrate and included him in the 2007-08 IRB Sevens World Series and he...
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Chris PatersonChris Paterson is a Scotland internationalist who plays for RaboDirect Pro12 side Edinburgh Rugby. He is Scotland’s record cap and points holder with 109 caps and 809 points. Paterson is capable in a range of positions, including fullback, wing and fly-half. In recent years Paterson has played...
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Nikki Walker Nikki Walker is a rugby union footballer who plays on the wing for the Ospreys and Scotland. Walker has cemented a regular starting place with The Ospreys at the Liberty Stadium. He and opposite-wing Shane Williams have created an exciting "Little and Large" combination that utilises their...
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Joe Ansbro Joe Ansbro is a Scottish international professional rugby union player. He is the first player of Afro-Caribbean origin to represent Scotland at test level in history. His favoured position is centre. He is currently playing for London Irish. -Early years:Ansbro was born in Glasgow and raised near...
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Graeme Morrison Graeme The Scythe Morrison is a Scottish rugby union footballer. He plays for Glasgow Warriors as a Centre....
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Sean Lamont Sean Lamont is a Scottish international rugby union player who plays at centre and on the wing. His younger brother Rory Lamont is also a Scotland international rugby union player.-Biography:...
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Ruaridh Jackson Ruaridh James Howard Jackson is a Scottish rugby union footballer. He plays professional rugby for Glasgow Warriors....
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Rory Lawson Rory Lawson is a Scottish international rugby union player who currently plays for Gloucester Rugby as a Scrum Half. He attended Dollar Academy where he captained the school's 1st XV. After a number of years playing amateur rugby for Heriots he then took a professional contract with Edinburgh...
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Johnnie Beattie John William "Johnnie" Beattie is a Scottish rugby union player who plays for Glasgow Warriors at the number 8 position.-Background:...
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Ross Rennie Ross Rennie is a rugby union player for Edinburgh Rugby in the RaboDirect Pro12. He attended the Edinburgh Academy, and his position of choice is as a Flanker....
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Alasdair Strokosch Alasdair Strokosch is a Scottish rugby union footballer, currently playing in the Guinness Premiership for Gloucester Rugby. He plays as a flanker.Strokosch started his professional career with Edinburgh Rugby...
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Richie Gray Richie Gray is a Scottish international rugby union player currently playing for Glasgow Warriors. It was announced in November 2011 that Gray would be leaving the Warriors at the end of the current season, having agreed to sign for the Sale Sharks.A former Kelvinside Academy student, he has...
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Geoff Cross Geoff Cross is a Scottish rugby union player. A prop forward, he currently plays for Edinburgh.Cross was selected for the Scotland squad for the 2009 Six Nations Championship. Sadly his debut match against Wales ended prematurely when he was sin-binned for a tackle in the air on full-back Lee...
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Ross Ford Ross William Ford is a professional rugby union player who plays as hooker for both Edinburgh and Scotland. He signed for Edinburgh after starting his professional career with the Border Reivers, but after the Reivers disbandment in the summer of 2007, Ford was left without a club...
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Allan Jacobsen Allan Jacobsen is a Scottish rugby union footballer. He is a prop, nicknamed "Chunk". He plays for Edinburgh....
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Dougie Hall Douglas William Hugh Hall is a Rugby Union Footballer playing at Hooker for the Glasgow Warriors and Scotland.Born in Dingwall he was educated at Glenalmond College in Perthshire and it was playing for them he was first scouted. He debuted for Scotland in the second-half defeat against Wales at the...
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Alasdair Dickinson Alasdair Dickinson is a Scottish rugby union footballer, who plays for Sale Sharks. He plays as a prop. He is a product of the Scottish Institute of Sport....
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Alastair Kellock Alastair Kellock is a rugby union player for Glasgow Warriors in the RaboDirect Pro12.Kellock's position of choice is as a Lock....
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David Denton David Denton is a Scottish rugby union player who plays for Edinburgh Rugby in the RaboDirect Pro12. He plays primarily at flanker, but is also able to operate at lock.-Background:...
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Greig Laidlaw Greig Laidlaw is a Scottish professional rugby scrum-half and out half, currently with Edinburgh Rugby. Laidlaw also plays for Scotland...
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Nick De Luca Nick De Luca is a Scottish internationalist professional rugby union player. He currently plays club rugby for Edinburgh Rugby in the RaboDirect Pro12.-Club rugby:...
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Jack Cuthbert Jack Cuthbert is a rugby union player for Bath in the Aviva Premiership. He plays as a winger/fullback or outside centre, although has won most of his 1st class appearances at fullback. Whilst still a member of the Bath academy, he has shown himself to be a promising player, and is a strong and...
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Rob Kearney Robert Kearney , also referred to as Rob Kearney, is an Irish rugby union footballer who currently plays for UCD, Leinster and Ireland. As a youth he also played rugby union for Clongowes Wood College and Gaelic football for Louth in the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship...
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Andrew Trimble Andrew Trimble is an Irish rugby union footballer from Coleraine, County Londonderry in Northern Ireland.- Club career :He attended Coleraine Academical Institution, where he competed in the Ulster Schools Cup....
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Fergus McFadden Fergus McFadden from Kilkenny is an Irish professional rugby union player. He is currently contracted to Leinster and the Irish rugby union. He plays club rugby for his university club UCD RFC.-Early career:...
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Paddy Wallace Paddy Wallace is an Irish rugby union footballer from Belfast where he attended Rockport School and Campbell College. He plays for Ulster. He was a member of the Ireland U19 side that lifted the U19 World Cup in 1998...
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Luke Fitzgerald Luke Matthew Fitzgerald is a Rugby Union footballer. He currently plays at winger or centre for Leinster. Having previously studied at Blackrock College he won two Leinster Schools Senior Cups, in 2004 and 2006. He won his first cap for Ireland in November 2006...
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Jonathan SextonJonathan Sexton , is a rugby union player for Leinster Rugby in the Celtic League and Heineken Cup. Sexton is a nephew of former Garryowen, Munster and Ireland rugby player Willie Sexton.Sexton is registered to St...
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Tomás O'Leary Tomás O'Leary is an Irish Rugby Union player, playing in the scrum half position for Munster and Dolphin RFC. The son of Cork hurler, Seánie O'Leary, Tomás played Gaelic football and hurling before committing to Rugby....
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Denis LeamyDenis Leamy is an Irish professional rugby union player. He is a back row forward who can play either blind side flanker or at number 8, and has occasionally played at inside centre...
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Niall Ronan Niall Ronan is an Irish rugby union player for Munster in the RaboDirect Pro12. He plays as a flanker.Ronan grew up playing Gaelic football and represented Meath GAA in the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship. He won the Senior Schools Leinster Championships in 2000 with St. Mary's, Drogheda...
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Mike McCarthy Michael "Mike" McCarthy is a professional rugby union player. He plays provincial rugby for Connacht. He can play as a second row or flanker.-Career:...
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Leo Cullen Leo Cullen is an Irish rugby union player who plays Lock for Irish club Leinster Rugby and Ireland. He was educated, firstly at Willow Park which is the junior school to Blackrock College where he attended secondary school...
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Donnacha Ryan Donnacha Ryan is a rugby union player for Munster in the Magners League. He went to school in St. Munchin's College in Limerick where he was a key member of the side that won the Munster Schools Rugby Senior Cup in 2002...
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Tony BuckleyTony "Mushy" Buckley is an Irish rugby union player from Newmarket, County Cork, who plays tighthead prop for Sale in the Aviva Premiership and for Ireland. He is currently one of the heaviest men playing professional rugby, weighing in at 21 st 5 lbs or 135 kilograms. He wears size 16 boots...
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Sean Cronin Seán Cronin was a journalist and former Irish Army officer and twice Irish Republican Army chief of staff.Cronin was born in Dublin in 1920 but spent his childhood years in Ballinskelligs, in the County Kerry Gaeltacht....
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Tom Court Tom Court is a rugby union footballer. He plays for Ulster as a tighthead and loosehead prop. He primarily played at tighthead in his early career but switched to loosehead in the 2007/2008 season when BJ Botha arrived at Ulster....
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Jerry Flannery Jeremiah Paul "Jerry" Flannery is an Irish rugby union player who plays at Hooker for Munster and Ireland.-Early career:...
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Marcus HoranMarcus Horan is an Irish rugby union player who plays loose-head-prop for Munster and Ireland.Horan was educated at St. Munchin's College and Limerick Institute of Technology...
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John Hayes John Hayes is an Irish rugby union player, who plays in the RaboDirect Pro12 and Heineken Cup for Munster. Having spent his underage career playing with the local Cappamore GAA club, he was 18 when he started playing rugby. It was his size which enabled him to overcome his late start to the sport...
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Mick O'Driscoll Mick O'Driscoll is an Irish rugby union player. He plays for Munster in the RaboDirect Pro12 and Heineken Cup, and plays internationally for Ireland. He made his Munster debut in 1998 against Neath. His international debut came as a replacement against Romania in 2001...
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Isaac Boss Isaac Boss is a New Zealand–born Irish rugby union footballer. His grandmother was born in Glenarm, County Antrim, thereby qualifying him to play for Ireland. He plays scrum-half or fullback for Leinster and the Ireland national team...
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Felix Jones Felix Jones is a Dublin-born Irish international rugby union player, currently contracted to Munster in the RaboDirect Pro12. He signed for Munster in 2009 having previously been a member of the Leinster Academy...
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Delon Armitage Delon Anthony Armitage is a rugby union footballer who plays at wing or fullback for London Irish and England. He also occasionally plays centre and often does place kicking, mainly from a distance or if the regular kicker is unable to take it.From 1996 to 2002, Armitage lived in...
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Matt Banahan Matthew Andrew Banahan is a Jerseyman who plays rugby union for Bath in the Aviva Premiership and England in international rugby union...
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Manu Tuilagi Manu Samoa Tuilagi is a Samoan born British professional rugby union player who currently plays for Aviva Premiership side Leicester Tigers...
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Riki Flutey Riki John Flutey is a New Zealand born rugby union footballer who plays at centre or fly-half for London Wasps in the Aviva Premiership....
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Mark Cueto Mark John "Frank" Cueto is an English international rugby union player. He plays on the wing for Sale Sharks and England.-Biography:...
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Jonny WilkinsonJonathan Peter "Jonny" Wilkinson OBE is an English rugby union player and member of the England national team. Wilkinson rose to acclaim from 2001 to 2003, before and during the 2003 Rugby World Cup and was acknowledged as one of the world’s best rugby players...
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James Haskell James Haskell is an English professional Rugby Union player who currently plays for the Top League team Ricoh Black Rams in Japan and internationally for England.-Career:...
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Lewis Moody Lewis Walton Moody MBE is an English rugby union rugby player who currently plays for Bath Rugby and was part of the 2003 World Cup winning side. He is renowned for his commitment to the physical aspects of the game....
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Tom Croft Tom Croft, born 7 November 1985 in Basingstoke, England, is a rugby union player for Leicester Tigers in the Aviva Premiership.-Background:Croft's best position is blindside flanker, but he can fill in at openside flanker , and lock...
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Simon ShawSimon Dalton Shaw MBE is an English rugby union player who plays at lock for Toulon and England.-Biography:...
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Dylan Hartley Dylan Hartley is an English, New Zealand born rugby union footballer who plays at hooker for Northampton Saints, and England.-Early career:Hartley was born in New Zealand, but qualifies to play for England through his English mother...
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Alex Corbisiero Alex Corbisiero is a rugby union player who plays at prop for London Irish in the Aviva Premiership.-Biography:...
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Lee Mears Lee Mears is an English rugby union footballer, who plays hooker at Bath.-Early years:Mears first started playing rugby for the Torquay Athletic mini team. Then after playing at Paignton College, he went to Colston's School and came under the guidance of Andy Robinson and Alan Martinovic. He has...
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Mouritz Botha Mouritz Botha is a rugby union player who plays for Saracens in the Aviva Premiership. He joined English club Bedford Blues in 2006 and made 73 appearances before moving to Saracens F.C. in 2009. Botha was named in the 2011 England Saxons squad for the Churchill Cup after qualifying for England on...
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Tom Wood Tom Wood is an English rugby union player for Northampton Saints in the Aviva Premiership.He plays as flanker but can also play at number eight....
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Charlie Hodgson Charles Christopher Hodgson is an English rugby union footballer. He plays fly-half for Saracens and England. He is also the leading Premiership points scorer of all time.-Early years:...
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Charlie Sharples Charlie Sharples is an English rugby union footballer, currently playing in the Guinness Premiership for Gloucester. He plays as a wing....
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Morgan Stoddart Morgan Lloyd Stoddart is a Welsh international rugby union player. His usual position is at fullback.He currently plays for Welsh regional side the Scarlets and plays international rugby for Wales.- Treorchy RFC :...
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George North George Philip North is a Wales international rugby union player currently playing for the Scarlets in the RaboDirect Pro12, in the position of winger.-Early life:...
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Jamie Roberts Jamie Roberts is a Welsh international rugby union footballer currently playing for Cardiff Blues in the RaboDirect Pro12. He also plays for the Wales and the British and Irish lions.Roberts' position of choice is as a centre....
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Shane WilliamsShane Mark Williams is a Welsh international rugby union player who plays as a wing for the Ospreys and who can also play scrum-half. Williams is the record try scorer for the Wales national team and he is third on the international list of leading Rugby union Test try scorers behind Daisuke Ohata...
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Rhys Priestland Rhys Priestland is a Welsh international rugby union player for Scarlets in the RaboDirect Pro12. His position of choice is as a Fly-half, however he occasionally plays at Full-back...
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Mike Phillips William Michael "Mike" Phillips is a Welsh international rugby union rugby player who plays at scrum-half for Bayonne.-Personal life:...
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Toby Faletau Tangaki Taulupe "Toby" Faletau is a Wales international rugby union player. A flank forward, Faletau played for Cross Keys RFC before joining the Newport Gwent Dragons....
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Sam Warburton Sam Kennedy-Warburton , commonly known as Sam Warburton, is a Welsh rugby union player. Warburton plays regional rugby for the Cardiff Blues and was first capped for Wales in 2009...
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Dan Lydiate Dan Lydiate is a Wales international rugby union player. A flanker, Lydiate was raised in Llandrindod Wells and is a product of the Newport Gwent Dragons academy...
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Alun Wyn Jones Alun Wyn Jones is a Welsh international rugby union rugby player, currently playing for the Ospreys in the Celtic League. Having previously represented Wales at under-21 level, he made his Test debut for Wales in June 2006 against Argentina. Originally playing as a blindside flanker, he has shown...
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Bradley Davies Bradley Davies is a Wales international rugby union player for Cardiff Blues in the RaboDirect Pro12. His father was a former Pontypridd player Bleddyn Davies who was also a lock forward.-Rugby career:...
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Craig Mitchell Craig Mitchell is a Wales international rugby union player for the Exeter Chiefs in the Aviva Premiership his signing was confirmed on March 23, 2011 by Aviva Premiership side Exeter Chiefs as he signed a two year contract....
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Huw Bennett Huw Bennett is a Wales international rugby union footballer, who currently plays for the Ospreys in the Celtic League and the Heineken Cup. His usual position is at hooker....
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Paul James Paul James is a Welsh international rugby union player for the Ospreys in the RaboDirect Pro12. James' position of choice is as a prop....
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Lloyd Burns Lloyd Burns is a Wales international rugby union player. Burns plays in the hooker position and currently plays his club rugby for Newport Gwent Dragons having made his debut in the 2008–09 season. He previously played for Pontypool RFC and Cross Keys RFC...
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Ryan Bevington Ryan Bevington is a Wales international rugby union player.A prop forward, he plays clubs rugby for the Ospreys regional team having previously played for Bridgend RFC....
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Luke Charteris Luke Charteris is a Wales international rugby union player. A second row forward, he plays his club rugby for Newport Gwent Dragons.Charteris made his debut for Wales in 2004 versus South Africa in 2004 having previously represented Wales at Under 19 and Under 21 levels.Charteris was called up as a...
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Ryan Jones Ryan Paul Jones is a Welsh international rugby union player who plays at number eight for the Ospreys. He is able to cover blindside flanker and second row; he played second row in his younger days as he was kept out of his preferred number 8 role by Gareth Delve.-Early life:Jones played junior...
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Tavis Knoyle Tavis Knoyle is a Wales international rugby union footballer who plays at scrum-half for the Scarlets....
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Scott Williams Scott Williams is a Wales international rugby union player who currently plays at Centre for the Scarlets.-Amateur Years:He played for Whitland RFC before joining Llanelli RFC.In 2009, Williams joined the Scarlets....
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Lloyd Williams Lloyd Williams is a Wales international rugby union player. A scrum-half, he plays club rugby for Cardiff Blues regional team. He went to Ysgol Gyfun Bro Morgannwg and his father is former Wales international scrum-half Brynmor Williams....
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Matt Evans Matt Evans is a Canadian international rugby union player. Matt Evans is a utility back and has played in various back-line positions including fly-half, centre, wing, and full-back.Evans competed at the 2008 IRB Junior World Championship representing Canada...
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Phil Mackenzie Phil Mackenzie is a Canadian international rugby union player. He is currently playing club rugby with Esher in the RFU Championship....
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DTH van der Merwe Daniel Tailliferrer Hauman van der Merwe is a South African-Canadian rugby union player. He was born in Worcester, South Africa, and attended there before emigrating from South Africa. He currently plays for the Glasgow Warriors in the RaboDirect Pro12.Van der Merwe joined Scottish side Glasgow...
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Ander Monro Alexander Monro is a Canadian rugby union footballer. He previously played for the Edinburgh Gunners, Waterloo R.F.C. and Colorno Rugby Club in Italy. He currently plays club rugby for Castaway Wanderers and plays with the Ontario Blues in the Canadian Rugby Championship...
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Ed Fairhurst Edward Fairhurst is a Canadian international rugby union player. He is currently playing with the UBC Old Boys Ravens in the BC Premier League and the BC Bears in the Canadian Rugby Championship....
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Aaron Carpenter Aaron Carpenter is a Canadian rugby player.Carpenter played his first international game for Canada vs. the United States on May 25, 2005, and has continued to be a strong member of the squad. Aaron played as a member of the Canadian team in the 2007 Rugby World Cup...
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Chauncey O'Toole Chauncey O'Toole is a Canadian rugby union player. O'Toole can play any position across the back-row but his preferred position is at openside flanker...
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Jebb Sinclair Jebb Sinclair is a Canadian rugby union player. Sinclair plays as a flanker but can also provide cover in the second row. Jebb made his debut for the Canadian national rugby team against Portugal while on Canada's 2008 tour of Europe....
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Jamie Cudmore Jamie Cudmore is a Canadian rugby union player currently playing for the Top 14 club ASM Clermont Auvergne. Previously Cudmore played for Llandovery RFC, Llanelli RFC and FC Grenoble...
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Pat Riordan Pat Riordan is a Canada rugby union player. He plays club rugby for Burnaby Lake, and for the Canada national side, having also played at Pontypridd...
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Scott Franklin Scott Franklin , is a Canadian rugby union player who plays rugby for the Prairie Wolf Pack in Canada, and for the Canadian national team. Franklin is a prop.- Career :...
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Tyler Hotson Tyler Hotson is a Canadian rugby union player who plays in the second row.Hotson currently plays his rugby with Plymouth Albion in the RFU Championship...
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Adam Kleeberger Adam Kleeberger is a Canadian rugby union player. Previously, Kleeberger had played for Canadian clubs University of Victoria and Bayside as well as Rotherham Titans of the RFU Championship. In 2010 he joined Auckland in the ITM Cup...
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Blaine Scully Blaine Scully is an USA rugby union footballer who plays as a fullback or wing. Scully was part of the United States squad at the 2011 Rugby World Cup.-External links:**...
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Takudzwa Ngwenya Takudzwa Ngwenya is a rugby union player who plays on the wing for the United States national rugby union team and French power Biarritz...
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Paul Emerick Paul Emerick is a USA international rugby player. His position is centre or wing. He last played for Ulster Rugby before being released.-Club:...
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Andrew Suniula Andrew Suniula is an American Samoan rugby union player for the Cornish Pirates in the RFU Championship. He previously played for the Chicago Griffins and rugby league football for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League. His position is at wing/centre/second row. He has...
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Kevin Swiryn Kevin Swiryn is an American rugby union player, who plays for Agen in the French Top 14. Kevin plays both centre and wing. He was selected to tour with the USA Eagles squad for the Autumn 2010 tour of Europe...
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Nese Malifa Valenese Malifa is an American rugby union fly-half. He is a member of the United States national rugby union team and participated with the squad at the 2007 Rugby World Cup....
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Nic Johnson Nicholas Johnson is an American rugby union player. Nicholas plays flank and 8th man for the USA Eagles XV. He was selected to tour with the USA Eagles squad for the Autumn 2010 tour of Europe. Nic started playing rugby around 20 years old. He has been playing with the USA Sevens since 2007 and...
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Todd Clever Todd Stanger Clever is an American rugby union player. He is currently the Captain of the USA rugby union team. His current club is Suntory in Japan. In rugby Clever plays as a flanker, but while playing for the USA Sevens side he plays as a prop.-Club career:Todd joined Suntory of Japan in June...
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Louis Stanfill Louis Stanfill is an American rugby union player. He currently plays for Mogliano, and for the United States national side. Stanfill made his international debut against in May 2005, at the age of 19. Stanfill plays as a back row player at flanker or No. 8...
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Hayden Smith Hayden Smith is an Australian-born American rugby union player.-Career:Smith first started playing rugby when he was in the seventh grade. He went on to play for Metropolitan State College of Denver, where he was also the Men's Basketball Captain and a scholarship holder...
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John van der Giessen John Van Der Giessen is an American rugby union player. He plays lock for the USA Eagle XV side. He was selected to tour with the USA Eagles squad for the Autumn 2010 tour of Europe. Van Der Giessen plays his club rugby for Bath Rugby.-Career:Van der Giessen's debut for his country was in 2008...
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Shawn Pittman Shawn Pittman is an American rugby union player. Shawn plays prop for the USA Eagle XV side. He has also represented his country at under 19 and under 20. He was selected to tour with the USA Eagles squad for the Autumn 2010 tour of Europe. Shawn plays his club rugby for London Welsh...
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Phil Thiel Phillip Thiel , is an American rugby union player. Phillip plays both hooker and prop. He was selected to tour with the USA Eagles squad for the Autumn 2010 tour of Europe. Phillip plays rugby for his American Super League Club, Life University. His debut for the USA Eagles was in November 2009...
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Mate Moeakiola Matekitonga Moeakiola is an American rugby union player. He currently plays for SC Albi, and for the United States national side. Moeakiola made his debut at the 2007 Rugby World Cup, scoring a try after coming on as a substitute in the Eagles' opening match against...
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Chris Biller Chris Biller is an American rugby union player who is currently on a short term contract with Bath Rugby....
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Eric Fry Eric Fry is an American rugby union player. Eric plays his club rugby with the Las Vagas Black Jacks Rugby Club. His position is prop forward. Eric was selected to tour with the USA national rugby union team, the USA Eagles XV, in their 2010 Autumn tour of Europe. The USA Eagles played Portugal,...
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Inaki Basauri Inaki Basauri is a Mexican-born American rugby union player.-Career:Basauri first started playing rugby when he was 15 and was invited to a practice by his friend.Inaki graduated from Walt Whitman High School in 2002. Throughout High School, he played sevens rugby with the Maryland Exiles in the...
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JJ Gagiano Jonathan Richard Gagiano is a South African born, American rugby union player. "JJ" plays flank for the USA Eagle XV side. He was selected to tour with the USA Eagles squad for the Autumn 2010 tour of Europe. "JJ" plays his club rugby for Eastern Province Kings in South Africa...
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Tim Usasz Timothy "Tim" Usasz is an Australian-born American international rugby union player who plays professionally for Nottingham in England as a scrum-half.His debut for the USA Eagles XV was against Ireland at Santa Clara on 31 May 2009....
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Roland Suniula Roland Suniula is an American international rugby union player who plays professionally for Chicago Griffins as a halfback on their rugby 7's team. He is the younger brother of former Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Winger Andrew Suniula, who has also represented USA in rugby union.Suniula played for...
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Tai Enosa Tai Enosa is an American rugby union player.Tai has played for the USA Under-20s, before being named to the USA Sevens Team and the USA Eagles player pool in 2009. On a club level, Tai played for Tempe, before transferring to Belmont Shore...
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Vereniki Goneva Vereniki Goneva is a Fijian rugby footballer. He plays as a centre or wing.He was first spotted by the Fiji sevens coach, Waisale Serevi playing as a wing for Nadi in the Digicel Cup competition and he was impressed by his workrate and included him in the 2007-08 IRB Sevens World Series and he...
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Albert Vulivuli Albert Vulivuli is a Fijian rugby union player. He plays as a centre or wing. His older brother, Thomas Vulivuli plays football for Fiji whereas his younger sister, Finau is one of Fiji's female football referees....
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Seremaia Bai -Career:He currently plays for Castres Olympique after signing from ASM Clermont Auvergne in 2010 who both compete in France's Top 14 competition. He also plays for the Fiji national team and the Pacific Islanders. He has played under-19s, under 21s and under 23s for the Fiji national side...
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Waisea Luveniyali Waisea Sedre Luveniyali is a Fijian rugby union footballer.-Career:He plays as a fly-half, formerly for Fiji Warriors....
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Sisa Koyamaibole Sisaro Dautu Koyamaibole is a Fijian rugby union player. His usual position is number eight. Koyamaibole has been capped 38 times by| Fiji, including playing in the 2003 and 2007 Rugby World Cups, and has played for the country in rugby sevens tournaments...
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Malakai Ravulo Malakai Ravulo is a Fijan rugby union player. He is a loose forward but spent most of his youth playing as a centre. He presently plays his rugby with the North Harbour rugby team in New Zealand....
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Wame Lewaravu Ratu Wame Ganilau Lewaravu is a Fijian rugby union player. He plays as a lock.-Club:He currently plays for Sale Sharks having previously played for Overmach Parma and London Welsh.-Debut:...
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Deacon Manu Deacon Tehanakore Manu is a New Zealand-born Fijian rugby union footballer. He plays as a prop for the Scarlets in the Celtic League, having signed from the Chiefs in 2006.-Career:...
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Campese Ma'afu Campese Ma'afu, is a Fiji professional Rugby union footballer. Ma'afu was selected to the Fijian National squad in 2010. His older brother, Salesi Ma'afu plays for the Australian Wallabies...
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Viliame Veikoso Viliame Veikoso is a Fijian rugby union footballer. He plays as a hooker. Veikoso hails from Nabua village, tikina Koroalau from Cakaudrove Province. he is also related to Akapusi Qera of Gloucester...
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Nasi Matadigo Sakiusa Masinivanua Matadigo is a rugby union footballer who plays third row for Montpellier Hérault RC. He has been capped for the full Fiji national side, as well as representing Fiji at Sevens...
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Waisale Vatuvoka Waisale Vatuvoka is a Fijian rugby union footballer. He plays in the halfback position for his club, Highlanders and is also a member of the 2010 Fiji Warriors.-See also:*Fiji national rugby union team*Fiji Warriors...
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Ravai Fatiaki Ravai Fatiaki is a Fijian rugby union player who has signed on to play for Worcester Warriors in the 2011–12 Aviva Premiership...
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Iliesa Keresoni Iliesa Keresoni is a Fijian rugby union footballer. He was the captain of the Lelean Memorial School 'Dream Team' of 2006 that won the Deans Trophy in the Fiji Secondary Schools Rugby Union competition of that year. He plays at fullback, wing and centre position for the Knights in the Colonial...
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Viliame Iongi Viliame Iongi is a Tongan national rugby union footballer currently playing for the Scarlets and Tonga.He has had 9 caps for Tonga and has scored 7 tries .In October 2011, Iongi signed for the welsh region side the Scarlets....
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Fetu'u Vainikolo Fetu'u Moana Vainikolo is a Tongan rugby union player. Noted for his explosive ball-carrying ability, he represented the Highlanders in the Super 14 competition between 2008 and 2010...
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Suka Hufanga Sukanaivalu Ivakuva Hufanga, known as Suka Hufanga , is a Tongan rugby union footballer. He plays as a centre....
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Taniela Moa Taniela Moa is a rugby footballer. He currently plays rugby union for the Chiefs. He started playing for Auckland for 2 to three years but then moved to play for Bay of Plenty in the 2010 Air NZ cup competition also known as NPC or ITM cup. His main position is scrum-half but he can also play in...
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Sione Kalamafoni Sione Kalamafoni is a rugby union footballer who plays as a number 8. Kalamafoni was part of the Tonga squad at the 2011 Rugby World Cup.-External links:**...
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Halani Aulika Halani Aulika is a Tongan rugby union prop who currently plays provincial rugby for Otago in the ITM Cup and the Highlanders in the Super 15 competition.-Provincial Rugby:...
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Aleki Lutui Aleki Lutui in Tofoa, Tonga, is a Tongan rugby union international player. He currently plays for the Worcester Warriors in the Aviva Premiership. His position is hooker....
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Sona Taumalolo Sona Taumalolo is a Tongan born New Zealand-based rugby union player. He currently plays for Hawke's Bay and internationally for Tonga. His position of choice is loose-head prop. He is known for his aggressive style of play both in ball carrying and tackling.-Early life:Sona Taumalolo was born in...
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Ephraim Taukafa Ephraim Taukafa is a Tongan rugby union footballer. He currently plays for France Stade Montois in France. Previously he played for North Harbour in New Zealand, Northern Suburbs in Australia, Leicester Tigers in England and Oyonnax and Lyon OU in France...
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Tonga Lea'aetoa Tonga Lea'aetoa is a New Zealand-Tongan rugby union player who currently plays for Bayonne in the French Top 14. Lea'aetoa's position of choice is as a prop....
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Sione Timani Sione Timani is a Tongan rugby union footballer currently playing at Lock for the Scarlets.He is and .He has 7 caps for Tonga.Sione has two brothers playing rugby in Australia, Sitaleki and Lopeti.-External links:...
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Samiu Vahafolau Samiu Kaufusi Vahafolau is rugby union footballer who currently plays for AS Béziers in the French Pro D2 as well as the Tongan national team. His usual position is number eight.-Playing Career:...
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Siale Piutau Siale Piutau is a rugby union centre who represents Counties Manukau in the ITM Cup and the Highlanders in the Super 15 competition.-Provincial Rugby:...
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Vunga Lilo Vungakoto "Vunga" Lilo is a rugby union footballer who plays for Bordeaux and previously Bristol. He plays as a fullback.-External links:*...
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James HookJames William Hook is a Welsh rugby union player for USA Perpignan. Hook is widely regarded as one of the most talented players in world rugby....
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George North George Philip North is a Wales international rugby union player currently playing for the Scarlets in the RaboDirect Pro12, in the position of winger.-Early life:...
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Jamie Roberts Jamie Roberts is a Welsh international rugby union footballer currently playing for Cardiff Blues in the RaboDirect Pro12. He also plays for the Wales and the British and Irish lions.Roberts' position of choice is as a centre....
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Gavin HensonGavin Lloyd Henson is a Welsh rugby union player, born in Pencoed, South Wales, currently playing for Cardiff Blues.He attracted much media attention as part of a Wales national team which achieved Grand Slams in the Six Nations Championship in 2005 and 2008...
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Shane WilliamsShane Mark Williams is a Welsh international rugby union player who plays as a wing for the Ospreys and who can also play scrum-half. Williams is the record try scorer for the Wales national team and he is third on the international list of leading Rugby union Test try scorers behind Daisuke Ohata...
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Rhys Priestland Rhys Priestland is a Welsh international rugby union player for Scarlets in the RaboDirect Pro12. His position of choice is as a Fly-half, however he occasionally plays at Full-back...
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Mike Philips William Michael "Mike" Phillips is a Welsh international rugby union rugby player who plays at scrum-half for Bayonne.-Personal life:...
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Toby Faletau Tangaki Taulupe "Toby" Faletau is a Wales international rugby union player. A flank forward, Faletau played for Cross Keys RFC before joining the Newport Gwent Dragons....
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Sam Warburton Sam Kennedy-Warburton , commonly known as Sam Warburton, is a Welsh rugby union player. Warburton plays regional rugby for the Cardiff Blues and was first capped for Wales in 2009...
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Dan Lydiate Dan Lydiate is a Wales international rugby union player. A flanker, Lydiate was raised in Llandrindod Wells and is a product of the Newport Gwent Dragons academy...
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Luke Charteris Luke Charteris is a Wales international rugby union player. A second row forward, he plays his club rugby for Newport Gwent Dragons.Charteris made his debut for Wales in 2004 versus South Africa in 2004 having previously represented Wales at Under 19 and Under 21 levels.Charteris was called up as a...
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Craig Mitchell Craig Mitchell is a Wales international rugby union player for the Exeter Chiefs in the Aviva Premiership his signing was confirmed on March 23, 2011 by Aviva Premiership side Exeter Chiefs as he signed a two year contract....
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Lloyd Burns Lloyd Burns is a Wales international rugby union player. Burns plays in the hooker position and currently plays his club rugby for Newport Gwent Dragons having made his debut in the 2008–09 season. He previously played for Pontypool RFC and Cross Keys RFC...
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Paul James Paul James is a Welsh international rugby union player for the Ospreys in the RaboDirect Pro12. James' position of choice is as a prop....
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Huw Bennett Huw Bennett is a Wales international rugby union footballer, who currently plays for the Ospreys in the Celtic League and the Heineken Cup. His usual position is at hooker....
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Ryan Bevington Ryan Bevington is a Wales international rugby union player.A prop forward, he plays clubs rugby for the Ospreys regional team having previously played for Bridgend RFC....
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Josh Turnbull Joshua "Josh" Turnbull is a Wales international rugby union player, who currently plays as a flanker for the Scarlets in the RaboDirect Pro12 and Llanelli RFC in the Principality Premiership....
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Justin Tipuric Justin Tipuric is a Welsh rugby union player. A flanker, he plays club rugby for the Ospreys regional team having previously played for Aberavon RFC. He made his debut for the Ospreys 06 August 2010 versus Aironi....
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Tavis Knoyle Tavis Knoyle is a Wales international rugby union footballer who plays at scrum-half for the Scarlets....
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Scott Williams Scott Williams is a Wales international rugby union player who currently plays at Centre for the Scarlets.-Amateur Years:He played for Whitland RFC before joining Llanelli RFC.In 2009, Williams joined the Scarlets....
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Aled Brew Aled Brew is a Wales international rugby union player who plays as a winger for Newport Gwent Dragons in the Celtic League. He made his debut with the Wales national rugby union team against Ireland in the 2007 Six Nations Championship.-Biography:...
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Ben Foden Benjamin Foden is a rugby union footballer who plays for Northampton Saints and England. He plays at fullback or scrum-half, but can also operate on the wing...
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Matt Banahan Matthew Andrew Banahan is a Jerseyman who plays rugby union for Bath in the Aviva Premiership and England in international rugby union...
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Mike TindallMichael James Tindall, MBE is an English rugby player who plays outside centre for Gloucester Rugby and has captained the England team...
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Shontayne HapeShontayne Hape is a New Zealand-born rugby footballer, a dual-code rugby international. He plays rugby union at centre for London Irish and England. He has also previously played rugby league for the Bradford Bulls in Super League and New Zealand Warriors in the National Rugby League...
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Mark Cueto Mark John "Frank" Cueto is an English international rugby union player. He plays on the wing for Sale Sharks and England.-Biography:...
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Toby Flood Tobias Gerald Albert Lieven "Toby" Flood is an English rugby union player. He currently plays at fly half or inside centre for Leicester Tigers, having signed from Newcastle Falcons, and England.-Background:...
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Nick Easter Nick Easter is a rugby union rugby player who plays at No. 8 or Flanker for Harlequins and England.He is the brother of Sale Sharks player Mark Easter and the nephew of author Anne Easter Smith. His father John, played squash professionally and reached number 1 in Britain and No.9 in the world...
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Hendre Fourie Carel Hendrik Fourie, generally known as Hendre Fourie , is a South African born English professional Rugby footballer currently playing for Aviva Premiership side Sale Sharks after signing from Leeds Carnegie in the Summer of 2011. His preferred position is at Flanker. Although he was born in...
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Tom Wood Tom Wood is an English rugby union player for Northampton Saints in the Aviva Premiership.He plays as flanker but can also play at number eight....
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Courtney Lawes Courtney Lawes is a professional rugby player for Northampton Saints, who play in the Aviva Premiership. Lawes is a versatile player, equally at home in the second and back rows. Indeed, he is the very epitome of the modern rugby forward, more akin to a basketball player thanks to an athletic...
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Louis Deacon Louis Deacon is an English rugby union footballer. He is a lock.His playing career started as an eight year old, playing with Wigston, before joining Syston. He later joined Syston and as a Ratcliffe College student represented the Midlands county and both the England 16 Group and U18 Group School...
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Steve Thompson Steve Thompson, Steven Thompson or Stephen Thompson may refer to:*Steve Thompson , American musician and producer*Steve Thompson , English rugby union player...
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Alex Corbisiero Alex Corbisiero is a rugby union player who plays at prop for London Irish in the Aviva Premiership.-Biography:...
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Lee Mears Lee Mears is an English rugby union footballer, who plays hooker at Bath.-Early years:Mears first started playing rugby for the Torquay Athletic mini team. Then after playing at Paignton College, he went to Colston's School and came under the guidance of Andy Robinson and Alan Martinovic. He has...
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James Haskell James Haskell is an English professional Rugby Union player who currently plays for the Top League team Ricoh Black Rams in Japan and internationally for England.-Career:...
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Charlie Hodgson Charles Christopher Hodgson is an English rugby union footballer. He plays fly-half for Saracens and England. He is also the leading Premiership points scorer of all time.-Early years:...
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Delon Armitage Delon Anthony Armitage is a rugby union footballer who plays at wing or fullback for London Irish and England. He also occasionally plays centre and often does place kicking, mainly from a distance or if the regular kicker is unable to take it.From 1996 to 2002, Armitage lived in...
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Damien Traille Damien Traille is a French rugby union footballer. His usual position is in the centre, fly-half and fullback. He currently plays for Biarritz Olympique in the Top 14 club competition in France...
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Vincent Clerc Vincent Clerc is a French rugby union player who plays on the wing.-Biography:Born in the city of Échirolles, suburb of the south of Grenoble , Clerc first played rugby at FC Grenoble, helping them reach the Top 16 before moving to Toulouse in 2002, where he has been playing ever since...
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David Marty David Marty is a French rugby union footballer who plays at center three-quarter in the Top 14 competition for Catalan club USA Perpignan, and has also played for France, having played in the 2005 and 2006 Six Nations....
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Maxime Mermoz Maxime Mermoz is a professional rugby union centre currently playing for USA Perpignan in the Top 14.Mermoz won the 2006 Under 21 Rugby World Championship. He earned his first cap for the senior France national team on July 5, 2008 against Australia. He made his Six Nations in 2009 debut against...
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Alexis Palisson Alexis Palisson is a French rugby union footballer. He plays as a fullback and wing. He is 1.76m tall and weighs just 83 kg....
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François Trinh-Duc François Trinh-Duc is a French rugby union player for Montpellier Hérault RC in France's top division of rugby union, the Top 14. Trinh-Duc's regular position is at fly-half or outside centre.-Biography:...
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Dimitri Yachvili Dimitri Yachvili is a French rugby union footballer who currently plays scrum-half for Biarritz and France.Of Georgian descent, his father Michel was a French international before him...
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Raphaël Lakafia Raphaël Lakafia is a French rugby union player. He currently plays for Biarritz Olympique and plays at the Number 8 position. He is the younger brother of Pierre-Gilles Lakafia and son of former French javelin champion Jean-Paul Lakafia ....
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Imanol Harinordoquy Imanol Harinordoquy is a French rugby union player who typically plays as a number 8 for Biarritz at club level in the Top 14 and for France internationally...
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Thierry Dusautoir Thierry Dusautoir is a French rugby union player who currently plays for France at international level and Toulouse in the French Top 14 club competition. Dusautoir is a strong ball carrier with good speed and strength to get out of tackles.Dusautoir was born in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire...
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Romain Millo-Chluski Romain Millo-Chluski is a rugby union player for Toulouse in the Top 14 competition. He plays as a lock....
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Julien Pierre Julien Pierre is a French rugby union player for Clermont Auvergne in the Top 14. He plays as a lock.He won his first cap on France's 2007 tour of New Zealand. He previously played for Bourgoin and La Rochelle.-External links: *...
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Luc Ducalcon Luc Ducalcon is a French rugby union player. Ducalcon, who is a tighthead prop, plays his club rugby for Castres Olympique. He made his debut for France against Scotland on 7 February 2010.-External links:*...
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Dimitri Szarzewski Dimitri Szarzewski is a French rugby union footballer, currently playing for Stade Français in the Top 14 club championship in France. His usual position is at hooker, and he has represented France....
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Sylvain Marconnet Sylvain Marconnet is a French rugby union footballer, currently playing for Biarritz Olympique having signed from Stade Français in the Top 14 club competition in France. His usual position is prop...
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Guilhem Guirado Guilhem Guirado is a French rugby union player. Guirado, who is a hooker, plays club rugby for Perpignan. He made his debut for France against Italy on 9 March 2008....
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Jean-Baptiste Poux Jean-Baptiste Poux is a French rugby union footballer who plays as a prop, and is capable of playing on either side of the scrum. He currently plays for Toulouse in the Top 14 rugby competition...
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Lionel Nallet Lionel Nallet is a French rugby union player who currently plays at lock for Racing Métro 92 in the French Top 14 club competition and is a former captain of the France national team. He began his professional career with CS Bourgoin-Jallieu, playing there from 1998 to 2003 before moving to...
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Julien Bonnaire Julien Bonnaire is a French rugby union footballer, who played for CS Bourgoin-Jallieu in the Top 14 competition in France until the 2006–2007 season...
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Morgan Parra Morgan Parra is a rugby union player who plays as a Scrum half and occasionally Fly-half. He plays for Clermont Auvergne in the Top 14 after signing for them from Bourgoin....
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David SkrelaDavid Skrela is a French rugby union footballer. He plays for the French national side and for ASM Clermont Auvergne as a fly-half or centre. He is renowned for his tackles and his kick....
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Maxime Médard Maxime Médard is a French rugby union player who plays his club rugby for French club Stade Toulousain in Top 14 and France internationally. He can play as both a fullback and on the wing and is described by assistant national team coach Emile Ntamack as an "incredible talent" that, during the...
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Rob Kearney Robert Kearney , also referred to as Rob Kearney, is an Irish rugby union footballer who currently plays for UCD, Leinster and Ireland. As a youth he also played rugby union for Clongowes Wood College and Gaelic football for Louth in the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship...
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Andrew Trimble Andrew Trimble is an Irish rugby union footballer from Coleraine, County Londonderry in Northern Ireland.- Club career :He attended Coleraine Academical Institution, where he competed in the Ulster Schools Cup....
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Keith EarlsKeith Earls is an Irish rugby union footballer for Munster in the RaboDirect Pro12 and Heineken Cup. Internationally, Earls plays for Ireland, and he represented the British and Irish Lions on their 2009 tour to South Africa. He plays as an Outside Centre, Winger or Fullback. He won a Munster...
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Paddy Wallace Paddy Wallace is an Irish rugby union footballer from Belfast where he attended Rockport School and Campbell College. He plays for Ulster. He was a member of the Ireland U19 side that lifted the U19 World Cup in 1998...
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Luke Fitzgerald Luke Matthew Fitzgerald is a Rugby Union footballer. He currently plays at winger or centre for Leinster. Having previously studied at Blackrock College he won two Leinster Schools Senior Cups, in 2004 and 2006. He won his first cap for Ireland in November 2006...
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Ronan O'GaraRonan John Ross O'Gara is an Irish rugby union player, playing at fly-half for both Munster and Ireland. He is the all time highest point scorer for both Munster and Ireland. In addition to his prolific point-scoring, he has captained Munster, Ireland and the British and Irish Lions...
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Eoin Reddan Eoin Reddan is an Irish rugby union player who plays at scrum half. He attended school at Crescent College Comprehensive where he captained the school side. On leaving school he studied at the University of Limerick....
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Denis LeamyDenis Leamy is an Irish professional rugby union player. He is a back row forward who can play either blind side flanker or at number 8, and has occasionally played at inside centre...
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Sean O'Brien Sean Kevin O'Brien is an Irish professional rugby union player from Carlow, Ireland. He plays provincial rugby for Leinster and club rugby for Clontarf RFC....
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Donnacha Ryan Donnacha Ryan is a rugby union player for Munster in the Magners League. He went to school in St. Munchin's College in Limerick where he was a key member of the side that won the Munster Schools Rugby Senior Cup in 2002...
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Leo Cullen Leo Cullen is an Irish rugby union player who plays Lock for Irish club Leinster Rugby and Ireland. He was educated, firstly at Willow Park which is the junior school to Blackrock College where he attended secondary school...
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Donncha O'CallaghanDonncha O'Callaghan is an Irish rugby union footballer. He plays as a lock for Munster and Ireland.- Early career :He began his rugby education in Highfield Rugby Club, on the Model Farm Road in Cork. During the 1997/98 season he won a Schools Senior Cup with the Christian Brothers College, Cork,...
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Rory Best Rory Best from Poyntzpass is an Irish rugby union footballer. He plays at the position of Hooker for Ulster and is registered for Banbridge RFC.-Club/Provincial:...
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Cian Healy Cian Healy born 7 October 1987 in Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland, is an Irish rugby union footballer. He plays for Leinster and for the Ireland national team. He is registered to Clontarf RFC who play in AIB League Division 1...
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Jerry Flannery Jeremiah Paul "Jerry" Flannery is an Irish rugby union player who plays at Hooker for Munster and Ireland.-Early career:...
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Tony BuckleyTony "Mushy" Buckley is an Irish rugby union player from Newmarket, County Cork, who plays tighthead prop for Sale in the Aviva Premiership and for Ireland. He is currently one of the heaviest men playing professional rugby, weighing in at 21 st 5 lbs or 135 kilograms. He wears size 16 boots...
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Paul O'ConnellPaul O'Connell is an Irish rugby union player who plays lock for Munster and Ireland. He also captained the British and Irish Lions on their 2009 tour to South Africa.-Early life:...
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Jamie Heaslip James Peter Richard "Jamie" Heaslip is a Leinster & Irish rugby union player.- Early life :Heaslip was born in Tiberias, Israel, while his father, retired Brigadier General Richard Heaslip, was there on duty with UNIFIL. He attended Newbridge College before starring at the 2004 U-21 World Cup in...
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Conor Murray Conor Murray is an Irish rugby union footballer who plays for Munster in the RaboDirect Pro12 and Heineken Cup. Murray attended St.Munchins secondary school and was part of the same Munster Senior Cup squad as current Munster and Ireland colleague Keith Earls...
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Fergus McFadden Fergus McFadden from Kilkenny is an Irish professional rugby union player. He is currently contracted to Leinster and the Irish rugby union. He plays club rugby for his university club UCD RFC.-Early career:...
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Felix Jones Felix Jones is a Dublin-born Irish international rugby union player, currently contracted to Munster in the RaboDirect Pro12. He signed for Munster in 2009 having previously been a member of the Leinster Academy...
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Luke McLean Luke McLean is an Italian Australian rugby union footballer who plays at fullback and fly-half for Treviso in Italy. He has also represented the Italy national rugby union team.-Background:McLean was born in Townsville, Queensland...
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Giulio Toniolatti Giulio Toniolatti is an Italian rugby union footballer who plays as a winger.A native of Rome, Toniolatti made his debut for Italy in 2008 against Australia and was part of the Italian squad at the 2011 Rugby World Cup....
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Alberto Sgarbi Alberto Sgarbi is an Italian rugby union player for Benetton Treviso in the RaboDirect Pro12.Sgarbi's position of choice is on the Centre.-Benetton Rugby:...
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Matteo Pratichetti Matteo Pratichetti is an Italian rugby union player.He currently plays for Aironi in the RaboDirect Pro12.Pratichetti's father, Oreste, was a rugby player and coach, his uncle Carlo was capped several times for Italy in the 1980s, and his brother Andrea was his teammate at Calvisano for the...
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Riccardo Bocchino Riccardo Bocchino is an Italian rugby union player. Bocchino, who is a fly-half, plays his club rugby for Aironi. He made his debut for Italy against Ireland on 6 February 2010....
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Edoardo Gori Edoardo Gori is an Italian rugby union player. He was selected to the 25-man Italian squad to face Argentina in November 2010. In the same month he made his Italy debut against Australia. He also played at the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.-External links:**...
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Sergio Parisse Sergio Parisse is an Italian Argentine rugby union rugby player. He was the first Italian rugby union player to be nominated for the IRB International player of the year...
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Mauro Bergamasco Mauro Bergamasco is an Italian rugby union footballer. He predominantly plays as an open-side flanker, although his versatility means has also played a number of international games on the wing, and started at scrum-half in an infamously error-prone performance...
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Alessandro Zanni Alessandro Zanni is an Italian rugby union footballer. He currently plays for Treviso in the Super 10 in Italy. His usual position is as a number 8, but in national team he plays often as substitute of Mauro Bergamasco in openside flanker position, or in blindside flanker position.Zanni made his...
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Marco Bortolami Marco Bortolami is an Italian international rugby union player, playing club rugby for Aironi in the Celtic League. In January 2008 he was replaced as captain of Italy's national team....
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Quintin Geldenhuys Quintin Geldenhuys is a South Africa-born Italian rugby union player. Geldenhuys, who is a lock, acts as captain of the Italian Pro12 franchise Aironi. He made his debut for Italy against Australia on 13 June 2009. He qualified for Italy through residency.-References:...
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Lorenzo Cittadini Lorenzo Cittadini is an Italian rugby union player. Cittadini, who is a prop, plays club rugby for Benetton Treviso. He made his debut for Italy against Ireland on 2 February 2008.He played at the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand....
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Leonardo Ghiraldini Leonardo Ghiraldini is an Italian rugby union player for Benetton Rugby Treviso in the RaboDirect Pro12.Ghiraldini's position of choice is at Hooker.-Underage & 'A' Level:...
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Andrea Lo Cicero Andrea Lo Cicero is an Italian rugby union footballer.Born in Catania, Sicily, Lo Cicero began his professional career in the town of his birth with Amatori Catania. Later he moved to Bologna and then to Rugby Rovigo, winning his first Italian Championship in 2000 with Rugby Roma...
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Tommaso d'Apice Tommaso D'Apice is an Italian rugby union footballer who plays as a hooker. D'Apice was part of the Italian squad at the 2011 Rugby World Cup and joined Aironi after the tournament.-External links:**...
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Martin Castrogiovanni Martín Leandro Castrogiovanni is an Italian Argentine rugby union footballer. He played for Ghial Calvisano, with whom he won the Italian championship in 2005. He has since signed a new contract with Leicester Tigers, and after a successful 2006/07 season with them was named Guinness Premiership...
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Paul Derbyshire Paul Derbyshire is an Italian rugby union player. Derbyshire, who is a flanker, plays club rugby for Benetton Treviso. He made his debut for Italy against Australia on 13 June 2009....
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Pablo Canavosio Pablo Canavosio is an Italian Argentine rugby union footballer. He currently plays for Aironi in the Italian Magners League. Previously, Canavosio played club rugby in Italy, for Rovigo, Calvisano and Castres Olympique. His usual position is at scrum half or wing.Canavosio has been capped by...
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Luciano Orquera Luciano Orquera is an Argentine-Italian rugby union player. He plays as a fly-half for Aironi, an Italian club in the Celtic League.....
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Gonzalo Canale Gonzalo Canale is an Italian Argentine rugby union footballer. His usual position is in the centre or at full back. He plays for French club ASM Clermont Auvergne...
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Shaun Webb Shaun Webb is a New Zealand born Japanese rugby union footballer who plays as a fullback. Webb was part of the Japan squad at the 2011 Rugby World Cup. He obtained Japanese citizenship in July 2011, a month before the 2011 Rugby World Cup.-External links:**...
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Kosuke Endo Kosuke Endo is a Japanese rugby union player. He was a member of the Japan squad at the 2007 Rugby World Cup, scoring a spectacular break-out try against Wales at the Millennium Stadium, and another against Canada in the 12-12 draw .He played for Toyota Verblitz before joining Canterbury for...
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Ryan Nicholas Ryan Nicholas is a Japanese rugby union player who plays for Suntory Sungoliath of the Top League in Japan. In July 2011, he received Japanese citizenship...
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James Arlidge is a Japanese international rugby union player. He plays primarily at fly-half.-Club career:Unusually he made his Super rugby debut for the Auckland Blues, prior to making his first start in provincial rugby, making the step from junior rugby with Pakuranga and Auckland Colts, due to the then Blues...
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Fumiaki Tanaka is a Japanese rugby union footballer. He plays for the Panasonic Wild Knights in Japan's Top League, and the Japanese rugby team. He plays for his country for the first time in the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. He is currently the smallest player in this World Cup standing at 166 cm...
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Takashi Kikutani is a Japanese rugby union player. He plays as number-eight or flanker for Toyota Verblitz.He has currently 33 caps for Japan, with 18 tries scored, 90 points on aggregate. His first match was a 44-29 win over Spain, at 5 November 2005, in Tokyo, in a friendly match, aged 25 years old. He is also...
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Hisateru Hirashima is a Japanese rugby union footballer. He plays for the Kobe Kobelco Steelers in Japan's Top League, and the Japanese rugby team. He has earned 18 caps for his country....
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Luke Thompson is a New Zealand-born Japanese rugby union player. He plays as a lock.Thompson's current club is Kintetsu Liners based in Osaka. He also plays for the Japan national rugby union team....
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Alisi Tupuailei Alisi Tupuailei is a Samoa-born Japanese professional rugby union player who currently plays for Honda Heat and the Japan national rugby union team.-Career:...
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Murray Williams Murray Williams is a rugby union player who plays for Bay of Plenty in the Air New Zealand Cup. He plays for Te Puke Sports in the Bay of Plenty premier competition. He has played for the New Zealand Colts between 2002 and 2003. His position is flyhalf, a position in which he also plays at an...
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Blaine Scully Blaine Scully is an USA rugby union footballer who plays as a fullback or wing. Scully was part of the United States squad at the 2011 Rugby World Cup.-External links:**...
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Takudzwa Ngwenya Takudzwa Ngwenya is a rugby union player who plays on the wing for the United States national rugby union team and French power Biarritz...
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Paul Emerick Paul Emerick is a USA international rugby player. His position is centre or wing. He last played for Ulster Rugby before being released.-Club:...
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Andrew Suniula Andrew Suniula is an American Samoan rugby union player for the Cornish Pirates in the RFU Championship. He previously played for the Chicago Griffins and rugby league football for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League. His position is at wing/centre/second row. He has...
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Colin Hawley Colin Hawley is an American-born American rugby union player.Hawley was named to the Collegiate All-Americans before being brought in to the USA Eagles Player Pool. Soon after his test debut against Georgia in June 2009, he was asked to join the USA national rugby union team on their 2010 Autumn...
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Nese Malifa Valenese Malifa is an American rugby union fly-half. He is a member of the United States national rugby union team and participated with the squad at the 2007 Rugby World Cup....
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Tim Usasz Timothy "Tim" Usasz is an Australian-born American international rugby union player who plays professionally for Nottingham in England as a scrum-half.His debut for the USA Eagles XV was against Ireland at Santa Clara on 31 May 2009....
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Nic Johnson Nicholas Johnson is an American rugby union player. Nicholas plays flank and 8th man for the USA Eagles XV. He was selected to tour with the USA Eagles squad for the Autumn 2010 tour of Europe. Nic started playing rugby around 20 years old. He has been playing with the USA Sevens since 2007 and...
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Todd Clever Todd Stanger Clever is an American rugby union player. He is currently the Captain of the USA rugby union team. His current club is Suntory in Japan. In rugby Clever plays as a flanker, but while playing for the USA Sevens side he plays as a prop.-Club career:Todd joined Suntory of Japan in June...
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Louis Stanfill Louis Stanfill is an American rugby union player. He currently plays for Mogliano, and for the United States national side. Stanfill made his international debut against in May 2005, at the age of 19. Stanfill plays as a back row player at flanker or No. 8...
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Hayden Smith Hayden Smith is an Australian-born American rugby union player.-Career:Smith first started playing rugby when he was in the seventh grade. He went on to play for Metropolitan State College of Denver, where he was also the Men's Basketball Captain and a scholarship holder...
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John van der Giessen John Van Der Giessen is an American rugby union player. He plays lock for the USA Eagle XV side. He was selected to tour with the USA Eagles squad for the Autumn 2010 tour of Europe. Van Der Giessen plays his club rugby for Bath Rugby.-Career:Van der Giessen's debut for his country was in 2008...
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Shawn Pittman Shawn Pittman is an American rugby union player. Shawn plays prop for the USA Eagle XV side. He has also represented his country at under 19 and under 20. He was selected to tour with the USA Eagles squad for the Autumn 2010 tour of Europe. Shawn plays his club rugby for London Welsh...
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Chris Biller Chris Biller is an American rugby union player who is currently on a short term contract with Bath Rugby....
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Phil Thiel Phillip Thiel , is an American rugby union player. Phillip plays both hooker and prop. He was selected to tour with the USA Eagles squad for the Autumn 2010 tour of Europe. Phillip plays rugby for his American Super League Club, Life University. His debut for the USA Eagles was in November 2009...
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Eric Fry Eric Fry is an American rugby union player. Eric plays his club rugby with the Las Vagas Black Jacks Rugby Club. His position is prop forward. Eric was selected to tour with the USA national rugby union team, the USA Eagles XV, in their 2010 Autumn tour of Europe. The USA Eagles played Portugal,...
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Scott LaValla Scott LaValla is an American rugby union player. LaValla plays lock for the USA Eagle XV side. He was selected to tour with the USA Eagles squad for the Autumn 2010 tour of Europe. LaValla played his club rugby for Dublin University Football Club until signing for Stade Francais in Summer 2011...
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JJ Gagiano Jonathan Richard Gagiano is a South African born, American rugby union player. "JJ" plays flank for the USA Eagle XV side. He was selected to tour with the USA Eagles squad for the Autumn 2010 tour of Europe. "JJ" plays his club rugby for Eastern Province Kings in South Africa...
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Roland Suniula Roland Suniula is an American international rugby union player who plays professionally for Chicago Griffins as a halfback on their rugby 7's team. He is the younger brother of former Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Winger Andrew Suniula, who has also represented USA in rugby union.Suniula played for...
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Tai Enosa Tai Enosa is an American rugby union player.Tai has played for the USA Under-20s, before being named to the USA Sevens Team and the USA Eagles player pool in 2009. On a club level, Tai played for Tempe, before transferring to Belmont Shore...
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DTH van der Merwe Daniel Tailliferrer Hauman van der Merwe is a South African-Canadian rugby union player. He was born in Worcester, South Africa, and attended there before emigrating from South Africa. He currently plays for the Glasgow Warriors in the RaboDirect Pro12.Van der Merwe joined Scottish side Glasgow...
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Phil Mackenzie Phil Mackenzie is a Canadian international rugby union player. He is currently playing club rugby with Esher in the RFU Championship....
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Ander Monro Alexander Monro is a Canadian rugby union footballer. He previously played for the Edinburgh Gunners, Waterloo R.F.C. and Colorno Rugby Club in Italy. He currently plays club rugby for Castaway Wanderers and plays with the Ontario Blues in the Canadian Rugby Championship...
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Aaron Carpenter Aaron Carpenter is a Canadian rugby player.Carpenter played his first international game for Canada vs. the United States on May 25, 2005, and has continued to be a strong member of the squad. Aaron played as a member of the Canadian team in the 2007 Rugby World Cup...
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Chauncey O'Toole Chauncey O'Toole is a Canadian rugby union player. O'Toole can play any position across the back-row but his preferred position is at openside flanker...
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Adam Kleeberger Adam Kleeberger is a Canadian rugby union player. Previously, Kleeberger had played for Canadian clubs University of Victoria and Bayside as well as Rotherham Titans of the RFU Championship. In 2010 he joined Auckland in the ITM Cup...
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Jamie Cudmore Jamie Cudmore is a Canadian rugby union player currently playing for the Top 14 club ASM Clermont Auvergne. Previously Cudmore played for Llandovery RFC, Llanelli RFC and FC Grenoble...
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Jebb Sinclair Jebb Sinclair is a Canadian rugby union player. Sinclair plays as a flanker but can also provide cover in the second row. Jebb made his debut for the Canadian national rugby team against Portugal while on Canada's 2008 tour of Europe....
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Pat Riordan Pat Riordan is a Canada rugby union player. He plays club rugby for Burnaby Lake, and for the Canada national side, having also played at Pontypridd...
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Tyler Hotson Tyler Hotson is a Canadian rugby union player who plays in the second row.Hotson currently plays his rugby with Plymouth Albion in the RFU Championship...
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Felix Jones Felix Jones is a Dublin-born Irish international rugby union player, currently contracted to Munster in the RaboDirect Pro12. He signed for Munster in 2009 having previously been a member of the Leinster Academy...
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Andrew Trimble Andrew Trimble is an Irish rugby union footballer from Coleraine, County Londonderry in Northern Ireland.- Club career :He attended Coleraine Academical Institution, where he competed in the Ulster Schools Cup....
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Brian O'DriscollBrian O'Driscoll is an Irish professional rugby union player. He is the current captain of the Ireland Rugby team and captained Leinster Rugby until the start of 2008 season. He also captained the British and Irish Lions for their 2005 tour of New Zealand...
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Gordon D'ArcyGordon William D'Arcy is an Irish rugby player, more specifically an inside centre. He is registered to Lansdowne RFC and plays for provincial and RaboDirect Pro12 side Leinster.-Career:...
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Keith EarlsKeith Earls is an Irish rugby union footballer for Munster in the RaboDirect Pro12 and Heineken Cup. Internationally, Earls plays for Ireland, and he represented the British and Irish Lions on their 2009 tour to South Africa. He plays as an Outside Centre, Winger or Fullback. He won a Munster...
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Jonathan SextonJonathan Sexton , is a rugby union player for Leinster Rugby in the Celtic League and Heineken Cup. Sexton is a nephew of former Garryowen, Munster and Ireland rugby player Willie Sexton.Sexton is registered to St...
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Tomás O'Leary Tomás O'Leary is an Irish Rugby Union player, playing in the scrum half position for Munster and Dolphin RFC. The son of Cork hurler, Seánie O'Leary, Tomás played Gaelic football and hurling before committing to Rugby....
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Jamie Heaslip James Peter Richard "Jamie" Heaslip is a Leinster & Irish rugby union player.- Early life :Heaslip was born in Tiberias, Israel, while his father, retired Brigadier General Richard Heaslip, was there on duty with UNIFIL. He attended Newbridge College before starring at the 2004 U-21 World Cup in...
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David Wallace David P. Wallace is an Irish rugby union player for Munster and Ireland. He grew up in Limerick on the Ennis Road. He did not leave Limerick until the age of 17, when he started playing for Munster. He normally plays as an Openside Flanker, but has also played Blindside and Number 8...
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Sean O'Brien Sean Kevin O'Brien is an Irish professional rugby union player from Carlow, Ireland. He plays provincial rugby for Leinster and club rugby for Clontarf RFC....
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Paul O'ConnellPaul O'Connell is an Irish rugby union player who plays lock for Munster and Ireland. He also captained the British and Irish Lions on their 2009 tour to South Africa.-Early life:...
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Donncha O'CallaghanDonncha O'Callaghan is an Irish rugby union footballer. He plays as a lock for Munster and Ireland.- Early career :He began his rugby education in Highfield Rugby Club, on the Model Farm Road in Cork. During the 1997/98 season he won a Schools Senior Cup with the Christian Brothers College, Cork,...
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Rory Best Rory Best from Poyntzpass is an Irish rugby union footballer. He plays at the position of Hooker for Ulster and is registered for Banbridge RFC.-Club/Provincial:...
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Cian Healy Cian Healy born 7 October 1987 in Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland, is an Irish rugby union footballer. He plays for Leinster and for the Ireland national team. He is registered to Clontarf RFC who play in AIB League Division 1...
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Jerry Flannery Jeremiah Paul "Jerry" Flannery is an Irish rugby union player who plays at Hooker for Munster and Ireland.-Early career:...
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Tom Court Tom Court is a rugby union footballer. He plays for Ulster as a tighthead and loosehead prop. He primarily played at tighthead in his early career but switched to loosehead in the 2007/2008 season when BJ Botha arrived at Ulster....
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Mike McCarthy Michael "Mike" McCarthy is a professional rugby union player. He plays provincial rugby for Connacht. He can play as a second row or flanker.-Career:...
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Eoin Reddan Eoin Reddan is an Irish rugby union player who plays at scrum half. He attended school at Crescent College Comprehensive where he captained the school side. On leaving school he studied at the University of Limerick....
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Ronan O'GaraRonan John Ross O'Gara is an Irish rugby union player, playing at fly-half for both Munster and Ireland. He is the all time highest point scorer for both Munster and Ireland. In addition to his prolific point-scoring, he has captained Munster, Ireland and the British and Irish Lions...
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Luke Fitzgerald Luke Matthew Fitzgerald is a Rugby Union footballer. He currently plays at winger or centre for Leinster. Having previously studied at Blackrock College he won two Leinster Schools Senior Cups, in 2004 and 2006. He won his first cap for Ireland in November 2006...
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Cédric Heymans Cédric Heymans is a French rugby union footballer. He currently plays for Aviron Bayonnais after signing from Stade Toulousain in 2011. He started his club career with CA Brive before moving to SU Agen, where he stayed until the late 1990s, before signing with Toulouse...
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Maxime Médard Maxime Médard is a French rugby union player who plays his club rugby for French club Stade Toulousain in Top 14 and France internationally. He can play as both a fullback and on the wing and is described by assistant national team coach Emile Ntamack as an "incredible talent" that, during the...
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Aurélien Rougerie Aurélien Rougerie plays on the wing and Centre for France and captains ASM Clermont Auvergne in the French Top 14.-Career:Rougerie was born in Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme...
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Fabrice Estebanez Fabrice Estebanez , is a French rugby league player and now rugby union player. He is a utility back and is able to play center and flyhalf. He has played for his CA Brive before joining Racing Metro 92.-Career:...
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Alexis Palisson Alexis Palisson is a French rugby union footballer. He plays as a fullback and wing. He is 1.76m tall and weighs just 83 kg....
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David SkrelaDavid Skrela is a French rugby union footballer. He plays for the French national side and for ASM Clermont Auvergne as a fly-half or centre. He is renowned for his tackles and his kick....
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Morgan Parra Morgan Parra is a rugby union player who plays as a Scrum half and occasionally Fly-half. He plays for Clermont Auvergne in the Top 14 after signing for them from Bourgoin....
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Louis Picamoles Louis Picamoles is a rugby union player who plays in France's top division of rugby union, the Top 14. Picamoles's regular position is at Number eight in the Back row....
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Julien Bonnaire Julien Bonnaire is a French rugby union footballer, who played for CS Bourgoin-Jallieu in the Top 14 competition in France until the 2006–2007 season...
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Fulgence Ouedraogo Fulgence Ouedraogo is a French rugby union footballer. He currently plays for Montpellier Hérault RC in the Top 14 championship. His usual position is as a flanker....
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Lionel Nallet Lionel Nallet is a French rugby union player who currently plays at lock for Racing Métro 92 in the French Top 14 club competition and is a former captain of the France national team. He began his professional career with CS Bourgoin-Jallieu, playing there from 1998 to 2003 before moving to...
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Pascal Papé Pascal Papé is a French rugby union footballer.He plays lock and has joined Stade Français after spending many years in Bourgoin, and playing two years at Castres Olympique...
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Nicolas Mas Nicolas Mas is a Catalan/French rugby union footballer, who currently plays for the USA Perpignan club in the Top 14 French premiership. His usual position is at prop. He also plays for the French national team....
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Dimitri Szarzewski Dimitri Szarzewski is a French rugby union footballer, currently playing for Stade Français in the Top 14 club championship in France. His usual position is at hooker, and he has represented France....
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Jean-Baptiste Poux Jean-Baptiste Poux is a French rugby union footballer who plays as a prop, and is capable of playing on either side of the scrum. He currently plays for Toulouse in the Top 14 rugby competition...
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Guilhem Guirado Guilhem Guirado is a French rugby union player. Guirado, who is a hooker, plays club rugby for Perpignan. He made his debut for France against Italy on 9 March 2008....
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Fabien Barcella Fabien Barcella is a French rugby union player, currently playing for Biarritz Olympique in the Top 14 league in France. He also plays for France.- Domestic Clubs :...
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Julien Pierre Julien Pierre is a French rugby union player for Clermont Auvergne in the Top 14. He plays as a lock.He won his first cap on France's 2007 tour of New Zealand. He previously played for Bourgoin and La Rochelle.-External links: *...
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Raphaël Lakafia Raphaël Lakafia is a French rugby union player. He currently plays for Biarritz Olympique and plays at the Number 8 position. He is the younger brother of Pierre-Gilles Lakafia and son of former French javelin champion Jean-Paul Lakafia ....
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Dimitri Yachvili Dimitri Yachvili is a French rugby union footballer who currently plays scrum-half for Biarritz and France.Of Georgian descent, his father Michel was a French international before him...
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François Trinh-Duc François Trinh-Duc is a French rugby union player for Montpellier Hérault RC in France's top division of rugby union, the Top 14. Trinh-Duc's regular position is at fly-half or outside centre.-Biography:...
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Vincent Clerc Vincent Clerc is a French rugby union player who plays on the wing.-Biography:Born in the city of Échirolles, suburb of the south of Grenoble , Clerc first played rugby at FC Grenoble, helping them reach the Top 16 before moving to Toulouse in 2002, where he has been playing ever since...
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Alisi Tupuailei Alisi Tupuailei is a Samoa-born Japanese professional rugby union player who currently plays for Honda Heat and the Japan national rugby union team.-Career:...
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Ryan Nicholas Ryan Nicholas is a Japanese rugby union player who plays for Suntory Sungoliath of the Top League in Japan. In July 2011, he received Japanese citizenship...
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Hirotoki Onozawa Hirotoki Onozawa plays rugby union at wing for Suntory Sungoliath in the Top League...
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Murray Williams Murray Williams is a rugby union player who plays for Bay of Plenty in the Air New Zealand Cup. He plays for Te Puke Sports in the Bay of Plenty premier competition. He has played for the New Zealand Colts between 2002 and 2003. His position is flyhalf, a position in which he also plays at an...
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Tomoki Yoshida is a Japanese rugby union footballer. He plays for the Toshiba Brave Lupus in Japan's Top League, and the Japanese rugby team. He plays for his country in the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.-External links:* *...
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Takashi Kikutani is a Japanese rugby union player. He plays as number-eight or flanker for Toyota Verblitz.He has currently 33 caps for Japan, with 18 tries scored, 90 points on aggregate. His first match was a 44-29 win over Spain, at 5 November 2005, in Tokyo, in a friendly match, aged 25 years old. He is also...
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Luke Thompson is a New Zealand-born Japanese rugby union player. He plays as a lock.Thompson's current club is Kintetsu Liners based in Osaka. He also plays for the Japan national rugby union team....
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Hitoshi Ono Hitoshi Ōno is a Japanese rugby player. He plays at lock for Japan.Ono's current team is the Toshiba Brave Lupus, in Japan. Ono currently has 35 caps for Japan, with 5 tries scored, 25 points in aggregate from 2004 to 2009. He was selected for the 2007 Rugby World Cup, playing three...
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Shaun Webb Shaun Webb is a New Zealand born Japanese rugby union footballer who plays as a fullback. Webb was part of the Japan squad at the 2011 Rugby World Cup. He obtained Japanese citizenship in July 2011, a month before the 2011 Rugby World Cup.-External links:**...
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Kevin Swiryn Kevin Swiryn is an American rugby union player, who plays for Agen in the French Top 14. Kevin plays both centre and wing. He was selected to tour with the USA Eagles squad for the Autumn 2010 tour of Europe...
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Tai Enosa Tai Enosa is an American rugby union player.Tai has played for the USA Under-20s, before being named to the USA Sevens Team and the USA Eagles player pool in 2009. On a club level, Tai played for Tempe, before transferring to Belmont Shore...
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Paul Emerick Paul Emerick is a USA international rugby player. His position is centre or wing. He last played for Ulster Rugby before being released.-Club:...
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James Paterson James Douglas Paterson is a native New Zealand rugby union player, although he has dual United States and New Zealand citizenship due to his mother Deanna being a US citizen.-Career:...
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Nese Malifa Valenese Malifa is an American rugby union fly-half. He is a member of the United States national rugby union team and participated with the squad at the 2007 Rugby World Cup....
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JJ Gagiano Jonathan Richard Gagiano is a South African born, American rugby union player. "JJ" plays flank for the USA Eagle XV side. He was selected to tour with the USA Eagles squad for the Autumn 2010 tour of Europe. "JJ" plays his club rugby for Eastern Province Kings in South Africa...
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Louis Stanfill Louis Stanfill is an American rugby union player. He currently plays for Mogliano, and for the United States national side. Stanfill made his international debut against in May 2005, at the age of 19. Stanfill plays as a back row player at flanker or No. 8...
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Pat Danahy Patrick Danahy is an American rugby union player. Patrick is comfortable playing in both the lock and flank positions.He currently plays for the Life University RFC. He was selected to tour with the USA national rugby union team, the USA Eagles XV, for the Autumn 2010 tour of Europe...
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Hayden Smith Hayden Smith is an Australian-born American rugby union player.-Career:Smith first started playing rugby when he was in the seventh grade. He went on to play for Metropolitan State College of Denver, where he was also the Men's Basketball Captain and a scholarship holder...
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Scott LaValla Scott LaValla is an American rugby union player. LaValla plays lock for the USA Eagle XV side. He was selected to tour with the USA Eagles squad for the Autumn 2010 tour of Europe. LaValla played his club rugby for Dublin University Football Club until signing for Stade Francais in Summer 2011...
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Eric Fry Eric Fry is an American rugby union player. Eric plays his club rugby with the Las Vagas Black Jacks Rugby Club. His position is prop forward. Eric was selected to tour with the USA national rugby union team, the USA Eagles XV, in their 2010 Autumn tour of Europe. The USA Eagles played Portugal,...
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Phil Thiel Phillip Thiel , is an American rugby union player. Phillip plays both hooker and prop. He was selected to tour with the USA Eagles squad for the Autumn 2010 tour of Europe. Phillip plays rugby for his American Super League Club, Life University. His debut for the USA Eagles was in November 2009...
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Chris Biller Chris Biller is an American rugby union player who is currently on a short term contract with Bath Rugby....
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Shawn Pittman Shawn Pittman is an American rugby union player. Shawn plays prop for the USA Eagle XV side. He has also represented his country at under 19 and under 20. He was selected to tour with the USA Eagles squad for the Autumn 2010 tour of Europe. Shawn plays his club rugby for London Welsh...
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Nic Johnson Nicholas Johnson is an American rugby union player. Nicholas plays flank and 8th man for the USA Eagles XV. He was selected to tour with the USA Eagles squad for the Autumn 2010 tour of Europe. Nic started playing rugby around 20 years old. He has been playing with the USA Sevens since 2007 and...
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Tim Usasz Timothy "Tim" Usasz is an Australian-born American international rugby union player who plays professionally for Nottingham in England as a scrum-half.His debut for the USA Eagles XV was against Ireland at Santa Clara on 31 May 2009....
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Roland Suniula Roland Suniula is an American international rugby union player who plays professionally for Chicago Griffins as a halfback on their rugby 7's team. He is the younger brother of former Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Winger Andrew Suniula, who has also represented USA in rugby union.Suniula played for...
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Andrew Suniula Andrew Suniula is an American Samoan rugby union player for the Cornish Pirates in the RFU Championship. He previously played for the Chicago Griffins and rugby league football for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League. His position is at wing/centre/second row. He has...
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Martín Rodríguez Martín Rodríguez Gurruchaga is an Argentine rugby union footballer, currently with the Paris Top 14 club Stade Français. He plays in the both the fullback and centre position. His test debut for Argentina was against England at Twickenham in November 2009...
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Lucas Borges Lucas Borges is an Argentina rugby union player. He played for Benetton Rugby in the Italian Super 10. Borges has also played for the Argentina national team, Los Pumas. His usual position is on the wing....
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Marcelo Bosch Marcelo Bosch is an Argentine rugby union footballer. He currently plays for the Biarritz Olympique club in the French league Top 14. He also plays for the Argentina national team, Los Pumas. His usual position is flyhalf, but he can also play at centre or full-back.-References:...
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Horacio San Martín Horacio San Martín is an Argentine rugby union footballer. He plays in the centre position. His test debut was against Wales at the Millennium Stadium in November 2009...
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Gonzalo Camacho Gonzalo Oscar Camacho is a rugby union footballer, who plays for Exeter Chiefs and Argentina on the wing. Gonzalo signed for Devon side Exeter Chiefs on 15 June 2011-External links:...
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Felipe Contepomi Felipe Contepomi is an Argentine rugby union footballer. A fly-half and centre, he currently plays for Stade Francais of the French Top 14; he made his debut for the club in November 2009 after recovering from a torn ACL suffered in a 2008–09 Heineken Cup match with his previous club, Magners...
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Agustín Figuerola Agustín Figuerola is an Argentine rugby union footballer for Brive in the Top 14. He has played both scrum-half and fly-half, and was recently selected for the 2010 June test to play against Scotland.-External links: *...
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Leonardo Senatore Leonardo Senatore is an Argentine rugby union player. He plays as a number eight or flanker. He made his debut against Uruguay...
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Juan Manuel Leguizamón Juan Manuel Leguizamón is an Argentine rugby union footballer. He used to play for the London Irish club in the English league Guinness Premiership. In the summer of 2008 he signed for Stade Français due to a perceived lack of game time. He has also played for the Argentina national team, Los Pumas...
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Genaro Fessia Genaro Fessia is an Argentine rugby union footballer. He plays flank. Fessia's debut match for his country was in 2005 when he played against Canada. He was also selected to represent Argentina for the incoming June 2010 tours against France and Scotland. Fessia has played most of his rugby for...
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Mariano Galarza Mariano Galarza is an Argentine rugby union player. He plays lock for the Irish club Leinster Rugby. His former club was Universitarios de La Plata, in Argentina....
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Manuel Carizza Manuel Carizza is an Argentine rugby union footballer. He currently plays for French club Biarritz Olympique in the Top 14 competition. He previously played for the Argentine club Jockey Club de Rosario. He has also played for the Argentina national team...
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Maximiliano Bustos Maximiliano Andres Bustos is an Argentine football midfielder currently playing for San Martín de San Juan.-Career:...
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Agustín Creevy Agustín Creevy is an Argentine rugby union player. He plays as a hooker, but has also played flanker and was selected for the 2010 June tests against Scotland. His test debut for Argentina was in 2005 when he played against Japan in Buenos Aires. He is also a Montpellier Herault RC...
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Rodrigo Roncero Rodrigo Roncero, also known as "RoRo" , is an Argentinian rugby union footballer. He currently plays for Stade Français in the national domestic competition of France, the Top 14. He has also played for Gloucester Rugby in the Guinness Premiership from 2002 to 2004...
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Eusebio Guiñazú Eusebio Guiñazú is an Argentinian rugby union footballer currently playing with Stade Toulousain in the Top 14. He signed freom the the Stormers Super 14 franchise. He was released by SU Agen in July 2009 due to club's financial problems.Previously he played for RC Mendoza in Argentina and another...
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Juan Pablo Orlandi Juan Pablo Orlandi is an Argentine rugby union footballer who plays at prop for Racing Métro, having previously played for Rovigo in Italy. He has also represented the Argentina national rugby union team....
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Santiago Guzmán Santiago Guzmán is an Argentine rugby union player. He plays in the lock position. In May 2010, he was selected in a squad of over 40 players to represent Argentina in the two test Summer tour of Argentina...
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Alejandro Campos Alejandro Tomas Campos is an Argentine rugby union player who plays at flanker or number eight in the Top 14, for Agen. He has also represented Argentina.-External links:* at uar.com.ar...
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Alfredo Lalanne Alfredo Lalanne is an Argentine scrum-half who plays for London Irish in the Aviva Premiership.Lalanne was born in Buenos Aires, where he attended the Los Molinos School. The San Isidro Club was his rugby 'home' through his teens and early twenties...
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Rafael Carballo Rafael Carballo is an Argentine rugby union footballer who plays at wing and centre and has represented the Argentina national rugby union team.-Career:Test debut Canada v Argentina at Calgary, Jul 2, 2005...
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Silvère Tian Silvère Tian is a Ivorian rugby union fullback, currently playing for the Top 14 team SU Agen.-Career:Tian started playing rugby at age 6 in Abidjan. He took part in the 1998 under-21 world championships that were held in France and attracted the attention of Rodez recruiters. He left for Flers...
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Guillaume Boussès Guillaume Boussès is a French rugby union player who currently plays for Racing Metro 92 after signing from Stade Français. He earned his first and last cap for the France national team on 5 February 2006 against Scotland.-Notes:...
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Marc Andreu Marc Andreu is a French rugby union player. Andreu, who is a wing, plays his club rugby for Castres Olympique. He made his debut for France against Wales on 26 February 2010. He scored his first international try against Italy in a 2010 Six Nations Championship match on 14 March 2010.-External...
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Lionel Beauxis Lionel Beauxis is a French rugby union player. He is tall and weighs . He plays at fly half for Stade Français....
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Julien Dupuy Julien Dupuy born 19 December 1983 is a rugby union player for Stade Français in the Top 14.Julien Dupuy plays as a Scrum-half.Julien Dupuy played for Biarritz and Toulouse in the French Top 14 for 7 seasons before joining Leicester Tigers in 2008...
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Damien Chouly Damien Chouly is a French rugby union footballer. He currently plays for USA Perpignan in the Top 14 championship. His usual position is as a lock....
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Pierre Rabadan Pierre Rabadan , is French international rugby union player, who plays his club rugby for Stade Français....
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David Attoub David Attoub is a French rugby union footballer, currently playing for Stade Français in the Top 14 club competition in France. He formerly played for Valence Sportif, Clermont Auvergne and Castres Olympique, and has also played for France...
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Lucas Gonzalez Amorosino Lucas González Amorosino is an Argentine rugby union player who plays wing or fullback for French club Montpellier after signing from English club Leicester Tigers in 2011....
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Agustin Gosio Agustín Gosio is an Argentine rugby union footballer. He plays in the wing and centre position. He plays in Newman Club and he forms part of Pampas XV during 2010 and 2011 vodacom cups. In May 2010 he was selected in a squad of over 40 players to represent Argentina during Scotland's two test...
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Juan Ignacio Gauthier Juan Ignacio Gauthier is an Argentine rugby union footballer who plays at fullback and has represented the Argentina national rugby union team. He currently plays for club Rome.-External links:**-See also:...
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Rafael Carballo Rafael Carballo is an Argentine rugby union footballer who plays at wing and centre and has represented the Argentina national rugby union team.-Career:Test debut Canada v Argentina at Calgary, Jul 2, 2005...
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Alfredo Lalanne Alfredo Lalanne is an Argentine scrum-half who plays for London Irish in the Aviva Premiership.Lalanne was born in Buenos Aires, where he attended the Los Molinos School. The San Isidro Club was his rugby 'home' through his teens and early twenties...
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Leonardo Senatore Leonardo Senatore is an Argentine rugby union player. He plays as a number eight or flanker. He made his debut against Uruguay...
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Miguel de Achaval Miguel de Achaval is an Argentine rugby union footballer. He plays in the back row. In May 2010 he was selected in a squad of over 40 players to represent Argentina in the two test Summer tour of Argentina.-References:**...
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Manuel Carizza Manuel Carizza is an Argentine rugby union footballer. He currently plays for French club Biarritz Olympique in the Top 14 competition. He previously played for the Argentine club Jockey Club de Rosario. He has also played for the Argentina national team...
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Martin Scelzo Martín Alejandro Scelzo is an Argentine rugby union footballer, currently playing for ASM Clermont Auvergne in the top division of French rugby, the Top 14 competition. He usually plays as a prop...
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Agustín Creevy Agustín Creevy is an Argentine rugby union player. He plays as a hooker, but has also played flanker and was selected for the 2010 June tests against Scotland. His test debut for Argentina was in 2005 when he played against Japan in Buenos Aires. He is also a Montpellier Herault RC...
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Juan Figallo Juan Figallo is an Argentine rugby union footballer. He currently plays prop for his club, Montpellier. He has also represented the Argentina national rugby union team.Juan was named "Player of Pool B" at the 2011 Rugby World Cup....
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Eusebio Guiñazú Eusebio Guiñazú is an Argentinian rugby union footballer currently playing with Stade Toulousain in the Top 14. He signed freom the the Stormers Super 14 franchise. He was released by SU Agen in July 2009 due to club's financial problems.Previously he played for RC Mendoza in Argentina and another...
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Juan Pablo Orlandi Juan Pablo Orlandi is an Argentine rugby union footballer who plays at prop for Racing Métro, having previously played for Rovigo in Italy. He has also represented the Argentina national rugby union team....
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Alejandro Campos Alejandro Tomas Campos is an Argentine rugby union player who plays at flanker or number eight in the Top 14, for Agen. He has also represented Argentina.-External links:* at uar.com.ar...
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Genaro Fessia Genaro Fessia is an Argentine rugby union footballer. He plays flank. Fessia's debut match for his country was in 2005 when he played against Canada. He was also selected to represent Argentina for the incoming June 2010 tours against France and Scotland. Fessia has played most of his rugby for...
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Marcelo Bosch Marcelo Bosch is an Argentine rugby union footballer. He currently plays for the Biarritz Olympique club in the French league Top 14. He also plays for the Argentina national team, Los Pumas. His usual position is flyhalf, but he can also play at centre or full-back.-References:...
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Gonzalo Camacho Gonzalo Oscar Camacho is a rugby union footballer, who plays for Exeter Chiefs and Argentina on the wing. Gonzalo signed for Devon side Exeter Chiefs on 15 June 2011-External links:...
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Julien Arias Julien Arias is a French rugby union footballer. He currently plays for Stade Français Paris in the top level of French club rugby, the Top 14. His usual position is on the wing. Prior to playing for Stade Français Paris, he was with the US Colomiers club. He has also represented France at the...
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Guillaume Boussès Guillaume Boussès is a French rugby union player who currently plays for Racing Metro 92 after signing from Stade Français. He earned his first and last cap for the France national team on 5 February 2006 against Scotland.-Notes:...
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Pierre Rabadan Pierre Rabadan , is French international rugby union player, who plays his club rugby for Stade Français....
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David Attoub David Attoub is a French rugby union footballer, currently playing for Stade Français in the Top 14 club competition in France. He formerly played for Valence Sportif, Clermont Auvergne and Castres Olympique, and has also played for France...
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Julien Dupuy Julien Dupuy born 19 December 1983 is a rugby union player for Stade Français in the Top 14.Julien Dupuy plays as a Scrum-half.Julien Dupuy played for Biarritz and Toulouse in the French Top 14 for 7 seasons before joining Leicester Tigers in 2008...
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Lionel Beauxis Lionel Beauxis is a French rugby union player. He is tall and weighs . He plays at fly half for Stade Français....
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- This game is part of the European Nations Cup
The European Nations Cup is the European Championship for tier 2 and tier 3 rugby union nations. The Championship is split into 7 divisions with 5 or 6 teams in each. The divisions play on a two-year cycle with the teams playing each other both home and away...
http://www.fira-aer-rugby.com/match-144.htm.
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- This encounter was billed as an "opposed training session", not an actual match. The Queensland Rugby Union
The Queensland Rugby Union is the governing body for rugby union in Queensland. It is a member and founding union of the Australian Rugby Union.-See also:*Queensland Reds*Australian Rugby Union*The Wallabies*Rugby union in Queensland...
, operator of the Reds, did not announce the score on its official site. Rugby CanadaRugby Canada, is the national governing body for the sport of rugby union in Canada. Rugby Canada was incorporated in 1974, and stems from the Canadian Rugby Football Union, a body established in 1884 that now governs amateur Canadian football as Football Canada; and the now-defunct Rugby Union of...
noted the score, but explicitly stated it was not an official match.
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