// Workers AI · dad joke modeWho's Michel Sitjar? Sit-jar in my heart.
 Sitjar in 1965 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 13 September 1942 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Died | 10 June 2019 (aged 76) Lamagistère, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 179 cm (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 92 kg (203 lb; 14 st 7 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Rugby player | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Michel Sitjar (13 September 1942 – 10 June 2019) was an international rugby union and rugby league player for France and played club rugby for Agen. He also tried rugby league for a year in XIII Catalan after brutally stopping his career at 28. Sitjar played as a flanker and won three Brennus Shields with the Sporting Union Agenais (1962, 1965 and 1966).[1]
In 2008 he published his first collection of poems (Rugby & Poésie), followed by the second one Rugby & Poésie, deuxième mi-temps two years later.[2]
Sitjar committed suicide by gunshot at his home in Lamagistère on June 10, 2019.[3]
Sources
[edit]- ↑ P., J. (14 June 2019). "Michel Sitjar est parti" [Michel Sitjar passed away]. Midi Olympique (in French). Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ↑ "Agen. La deuxième mi-temps de Michel Sitjar" [Agen. The second half-time of Michel Sitjar]. La Dépêche du Midi (in French). 20 July 2010. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ↑ B., G. (19 June 2019). "Obsèques civiles : Michel Sitjar s'est fait une dernière malle" [Michel Sitjar made his last French leave]. Le Petit Bleu d'Agen (in French). Retrieved 20 June 2019. (subscription required)
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