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Born | Bordeaux, Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France | 11 December 1966|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Second-row, Loose forward | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Daniel Divet, (born 11 December 1966), is a French former rugby league footballer who played as second-row or loose forward.
Born in Bordeaux, France, Divet moved to Australia at a young age, where he began playing rugby league. He returned to France in 1985, aged 18, and signed for Limoux. [3]
During his career, he is one of the few French players to start an overseas experience playing for English sides such as Hull FC, [4] and Featherstone Rovers. [5] [6] In France, he notably played for Carcassonne and Limoux.
His club performance allowed him to represent France with which he notably disputed the 1985-1988 and 1989-1992 Rugby League World Cups.
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