Michel Yachvili (born 25 September 1946) is a former
French 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 ...
footballer.
His father was a
Georgian POW during the World War II in France, and his son Grégoire chose to play for the
Georgian national team. He began his career playing as
Hooker for
SC Tulle. He was a part of the
French national team which won the 1968 Grand Slam in the
Five Nations. In 1970 he moved to
CA Brive
Club Athlétique Brive Corrèze Limousin, also referred to as CA Brive, Brive () or CAB, is a French professional rugby union club based in Brive-la-Gaillarde, in the Corrèze, Corrèze department.
Brive is a historical member of French rugby un ...
where he played
flanker.
Yachvili's son,
Dimitri Yachvili
Dimitri Yachvili Markarian (born 19 September 1980) is a French former rugby union footballer who played as a scrum-half for Biarritz and France. He played for France from 2002 to 2012, earning 61 caps and scoring 373 points. With them he playe ...
, is also a France rugby union international.
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1946 births
French rugby union players
20th-century French sportsmen
Living people
Sportspeople from Tulle
Rugby union flankers
France international rugby union players
French people of Georgian descent
Rugby union players from Corrèze
CA Brive players
SC Tulle players
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