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Full name | Raymond Nasso | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | 3 July 1987||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 110 kg (17 st 5 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Hooker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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As of 16 January 2021 |
Raymond Nasso (born 3 July 1987) is an Australian-Italian rugby league footballer who played in the 2010s. He played at club level for the London Broncos in the 2015 Kingstone Press Championship season and represented Italy in the 2013 World Cup. Nowadays, he works at a high school as a pdhpe teacher.
He played for SO Avignon in the Elite One Championship as a hooker. [3] [4] He started play in France at Villefranche-de-Rouergue for Villefranche XIII Aveyron in the Elite Two Championship. On 9 July 2014, Nasso signed for the London Broncos for the 2015 and 2016 seasons from Sporting Olympique Avignon. [5]
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