Gérard Rousset (born 21 January 1953) is a French former international
rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...
player.
Born in
Bourg-lès-Valence
Bourg-lès-Valence (; ) is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France. It is a suburb of Valence. The archaeologist and Hellenist Fernand Courby (1878–1932) was born in Bourg-lès-Valence.
In 2014–2019, Bourg-lès-Valence ...
, Rousset was a back row forward mainly associated with
Valence Sportif
Valence Sportif was a French rugby union club based in Valence, Drôme. The team last competed in Fédérale 2, the fourth division of French rugby. Valence were established in 1905, and played in white and red. In 2010, the club merged with nearb ...
, but gained his France call up during a short stint with
AS Béziers. He debuted for France against the
Springboks
The South Africa national rugby union team, commonly known as the Springboks (colloquially the Boks, Bokke or Amabhokobhoko) is the country's national team governed by the South African Rugby Union. The Springboks play in green and gold jersey ...
at Bloemfontein in 1975 and the following year was capped a second time on a tour of the United States, playing an international match in Chicago.
Rousset operates the Victor Hugo café in Valence.
See also
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List of France national rugby union players
List of France national rugby union players is a list of people who have played for the France national rugby union team. The list only includes players who have played in a Test match.
Note that the "position" column lists the position at w ...
References
External links
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Gérard Roussetat Fédération Française de Rugby
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1953 births
Living people
French rugby union players
France international rugby union players
People from Bourg-lès-Valence
Rugby union players from Drôme
AS Béziers Hérault players
ROC La Voulte-Valence players
Rugby union wing-forwards