Roger Biffi
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Date of birth | 30 December 1942 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Bellegarde, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 1 May 2004 | (aged 61)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Toulouse, France[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Roger Biffi (Bellegarde, 30 December 1942 - Toulouse, 1 May 2004) was a rugby league and rugby union player. He played as second row.[2]
Career
Biffi first started his career playing rugby union for CA Lannemezan until 1968, when he switched codes to play rugby league for Saint-Gaudens, where he played until the end of his career, in 1973. He was also capped 7 times for France,[3] taking part at the 1970 Rugby League World Cup.
Honours
- Rugby league:
- French Championship:
- 2 time Champion in: 1969, 1973 (Saint-Gaudens)
- 3 times finalist in 1968, 1970, 1971 (Saint-Gaudens)
References
- ^ "Filae - Ici commence votre histoire".
- ^ a b Aimé Mouret (December 2011). "BIFFI Roger". Le Who's who du rugby à XIII (in French). Toulouse: Éditions de l'Ixcea. p. 191. ISBN 978-2-84918-118-8.
- ^ Louis Bonnery (1996). "Internationaux de 1934 au 31 décembre 1995". Le rugby à XIII le plus français du monde (in French). Limoux: Cano&Franck. p. 430. ASIN B000X3Z932.
External links
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- 1942 births
- 2004 deaths
- Sportspeople from Gers
- CA Lannemezan players
- France national rugby league team players
- French rugby league players
- Rugby league second-rows
- Rugby union locks
- Saint-Gaudens Bears players
- French rugby union players