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Serge Lairle (born Toulouse, 3 December 1956) is a French rugby union former footballer and a current coach. He played as a prop, lock and hooker.
He played for Stade Toulousain, from 1975/76 to 1989/90, when he finished his career. He played also for France XV.
He was the coach of several teams in France. Lairle was nominated head coach of Romania in 2009. He had a disappointing 2011 Rugby World Cup qualification, reaching only the 3rd place and failing the direct qualifying for the first time but still reaching the repechage. He was replaced by Romeo Gontineac in 2010.
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Serge Blanco is a former rugby union footballer who played fullback for Biarritz Olympique and the French national side, gaining 93 caps, 81 of them at fullback. His alternative position was wing. He was generally nicknamed by French rugby fans as the Pelé of Rugby.
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Jean-Luc Sadourny is a former French rugby union footballer and a current coach. He played as a fullback. He was nicknamed The Old Woman and he is generally considered one of the best French players of his generation, a fair successor to Serge Blanco in his position.
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Sporting Olympique Avignon also known as Avignon XIII or SO Avignon are a semi-professional rugby league team based in Avignon in the south of France. They currently play in the Elite One Championship. The club was formed in 1916 and they enjoyed their best spell during the 1950s when they lifted the Lord Derby Cup twice and reached two other finals as well as being runners up in the French rugby league championship. The club plays its home matches at the Parc des Sports (Avignon). The current head coach is their former player and ex French international Renaud Guigue
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Roger Garrigue, sometimes written as Roger Garrigues, is a French former professional rugby league footballer and coach, who played as centre, stand-off or scrum-half.