Mike Tadjer Barbosa (born 10 March 1989) is a French-born
Portuguese rugby union player who plays as a
hooker
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for
RC Massy in the
Nationale, France’s third tier of rugby.
Club career
He first played at
RC Massy, where he joined the first team in 2007/08. After a season at
Racing Métro 92
Racing 92 () is a French rugby union club based in suburban Paris that was formed in 2001 with the collaboration of the Racing Club de France and US Métro. They were called Racing Métro 92 between 2001 and 2015, when they changed the name to ...
(2008/09), where he won the French Pro D2, he returned to RC Massy, where he would play from 2009/10 to 2014/15. He has played since then at
SU Agen (2015/16-2016/17),
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 department. They compete in the first-tier Top 14 competition.
Briv ...
(2017/18),
FC Grenoble (2018/19),
ASM Clermont (2019/20),
US Montauban (2020/21), and currently plays for
USA Perpignan, since 2021/22.
International career
Tadjer earned 22 caps for
Portugal, with 3 tries scored, and 15 points on aggregate. His debut was a 15-7 loss to
Romania on 4 February 2012, in
Bucharest, for the
Six Nations B.
He was involved in Os Lobos' successful
2023 Rugby World Cup qualifying campaign. He was selected to be a part of the Portugal squad for the
2023 Rugby World Cup
The 2023 Rugby World Cup is scheduled to be the tenth men's Rugby World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's rugby union teams. It is scheduled to take place in France from 8 September to 28 October 2023 in nine venues across the cou ...
in France. In their last pool stage game against
Fiji
Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...
, Portugal claimed a historic first win at the tournament; beating Fiji 23–24. Since Portugal didn't advance to the knockout stages, it was Tadjer's last match for his nation as he announced his retirement from international rugby.
Personal life
Tadjer was born in France to a Portuguese father and Syrian mother.
References
1989 births
Living people
People from Massy, Essonne
Portuguese rugby union players
Portugal international rugby union players
French rugby union players
Portuguese people of Syrian descent
French sportspeople of Portuguese descent
French people of Syrian descent
ASM Clermont Auvergne players
CA Brive players
FC Grenoble Rugby players
Racing 92 players
RC Massy players
SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne players
US Montauban players
USA Perpignan players
Rugby union hookers
2023 Rugby World Cup players
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