Thierry Devergie
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Date of birth | 27 July 1966 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 260 lb (118 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thierry Devergie (born 27 July 1966 in Marseille) is a French former rugby union & rugby league footballer. He played as a lock and as a flanker. He also had a brief stint as a professional rugby league footballer.
Career
[edit]Devergie played for RC Nîmes and for FC Grenoble (1994/95) in rugby union. He played a season for Paris Saint-Germain Rugby League (1995/96), returning to his previous code afterwards. He played for the Welsh team Neath RFC in the season of 1997/98, moving to Bristol Shoguns, in England the same season. Returning to France he would represent CA Brive (1998/99) and CA Bordeaux-Bègles Gironde (1999/2000). He finished his career aged 33 years old.
Devergie had 17 caps for France, from 1988 to 1992, without ever scoring. He had 4 caps at the 1990 Five Nations Championship. He was selected for the 1991 Rugby World Cup but never left the bench.
External links
[edit]- Thierry Devergie at ESPNscrum