David Barends (birth unknown) is a

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international

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played at international level for Other Nationalities, and at club level for

Wakefield Trinity Wakefield Trinity is a professional rugby league club in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. The club play their home fixtures at the DIY Kitchen Stadium, Belle Vue (Wakefield), Belle Vue and currently compete in the Super League, the top tier o ...

Bradford Northern The Bradford Bulls are a professional rugby league club in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, and compete in the Championship, the second tier of British rugby league. The club have won the League Championship six times, the Challenge Cup f ...

York York is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, with Roman Britain, Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers River Ouse, Yorkshire, Ouse and River Foss, Foss. It has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a Yor ...

and

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, as a .

Playing career

International honours

Barends won two caps for

while at Bradford Northern, being selected on the 1979 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand. Both of Barends caps were against

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, and is the only South African-born player to have represented Great Britain. He also represented the Other Nationalities team while at Bradford Northern and York.

Premiership Final appearances

Barends played in

’s 17–8 victory over

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in the Premiership Final during the 1977–78 season at

Station Road, Swinton Station Road was a stadium in Pendlebury, near Manchester, England. It was the home of Swinton Rugby League Club between 1929 and 1992 and was widely recognised as one of the finest grounds in the Rugby League. Swinton moved to Station Road w ...

on Saturday 20 May 1978.

County Cup Final appearances

Barends played on the in

's 18–8 victory over

in the 1978–79 Yorkshire Cup Final during the 1978–79 season at

Headingley Headingley is a suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, approximately two miles out of the city centre, to the north west along the A660 road. Headingley is the location of the Beckett Park campus of Leeds Beckett University and Headingley ...

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on Saturday 28 October 1978, played on the , in the 5–10 defeat by

Castleford Castleford is a town within the City of Wakefield district, West Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 45,106 at a 2021 population estimate. Historic counties of England, Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, to the north of the t ...

in the

1981–82 Yorkshire Cup The 1981–82 Yorkshire Cup was the 74th occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. Castleford won the trophy by beating Bradford Northern by the score of 10–5 The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorks ...

Final during the 1981–82 season at

on Saturday 3 October 1981, and played on the , in the 7–18 defeat by

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in the

1982–83 Yorkshire Cup The 1982–83 Yorkshire Cup was the seventy-fifth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition was held. Hull F.C. won the trophy by beating Bradford Northern by a score of 18-7. The match was played at Elland Road, Leeds, now in West York ...

Final during the 1981–82 season at

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on Saturday 2 October 1982.

John Player Trophy Final appearances

Barends played on the in

's 6–0 victory over

in the

1979–80 John Player Trophy This was the ninth season for the League Cup, known as the John Player Trophy for sponsorship reasons. Bradford Northern won the trophy, beating Widnes 6–0 in the final. The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, West Yorkshire. The attendance ...

Final during the 1979–80 season at

on Saturday 5 January 1980.

Club career

Barends was recommended to Wakefield Trinity by the former Wakefield Trinity player from South Africa,

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, and joined in 1970 for a signing-on fee of £1,000 (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £24,2800 in 2016), he scored 2- tries on his début against

Blackpool Borough Blackpool Borough was a rugby league club based in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, that played in the Rugby Football League from 1954 until 1993. The club moved to Wigan in 1987 and was renamed Springfield Borough; to Chorley in 1988 and wa ...

at Belle Vue,

Wakefield Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England located on the River Calder. The city had a population of 109,766 in the 2021 census, up from 99,251 in the 2011 census. The city is the administrative centre of the wider Metropolit ...

Personal life

As of 2015, Barends lives in

South Elmsall South Elmsall ( ) is a town and civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. South Elmsall lies to the east of Hemsworth. The town had a population in 2001 of 6,107, increasing to 6,519 at the 2011 Census. History The tow ...

in West Yorkshire, England.

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