Roger Biffi
| Born | 30 December 1942 Bellegarde, Gers, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Died | 1 May 2004 (aged 61) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Second-row | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
[edit]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
[edit]- Rugby league:
- French Championship:
- 2 time Champion in: 1969, 1973 (Saint-Gaudens)
- 3 times finalist in 1968, 1970, 1971 (Saint-Gaudens)
References
[edit]- ↑ "Filae - Ici commence votre histoire".
- 1 2 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.
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[edit]Categories:
- 1942 births
- 2004 deaths
- 20th-century French sportsmen
- CA Lannemezan players
- France national rugby league team players
- French rugby league players
- French rugby union players
- Rugby league players from Occitania (administrative region)
- Rugby league second-rows
- Rugby union locks
- Rugby union players from Gers
- Saint-Gaudens Bears players
- Sportspeople from Gers