Michel Maïque (13 July 1948 – 12 September 2021) was a French
rugby league
Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...
player and politician, and
socialist
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Mayor of
Lézignan-Corbières
Lézignan-Corbières (; ) is a commune in the Aude department in the Occitanie region in southern France. Situated in the Corbières wine region not far from Narbonne, it has a Vine and Wine Museum (''Musée de la Vigne et du Vin'').
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from 2014 to 2020.
Playing career
Former second-row
FC Lézignan, he was a French international, with 8 caps between 1974 and 1979. He played for the France national team, who won against Australia in 1978 and coached France between 1982 and 1983.
He coached the
France
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national team for one fixture, in a 17-5 defeat to
Great Britain
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on 6 March 1983 in Hull.
After Rugby
He retired as player in 1980 at 32 years. In his civil life, he was a teacher.
He died on 12 September 2021 after suffering from
acute pancreatitis and was buried at the
Conilhac-Corbières
Conilhac-Corbières is a Communes of France, commune in the Aude Departments of France, department in southern France.
Population
See also
* Corbières AOC
* Communes of the Aude department
References
Communes of Aude
Aude comm ...
cemetery.
References
External links
Michel Maique at Rugby League Project
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1948 births
2021 deaths
France national rugby league team coaches
France national rugby league team players
French rugby league coaches
French rugby league players
French schoolteachers
Lézignan Sangliers players
Mayors of places in Occitania (administrative region)
Rugby league players from Occitania (administrative region)
Rugby league second-rows
Socialist Party (France) politicians
Sportspeople from Aude