Yacouba Mandingo Camara (born 2 June 1994) is a 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 ...

player who currently plays for

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in the French

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. His regular playing position is as a Flanker.

Club career

Camara made his debut for

Toulouse Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...

in the 2013–14 season, aged 19. He transferred to

Montpellier Hérault Rugby Montpellier Hérault Rugby (MHR) (; ) is a French professional rugby union club, based in Montpellier, Occitanie and named after the Hérault department. The club competes in the top level of the French league system, the Top 14. They original ...

in 2017.

International career

Camara was born in France and is of Malian descent. He has starred for the French national u-20 side and was included in Guy Noves' 30-man 6 Nations squad for the 2016 campaign.

References

External links

France profile
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