André Alvarez (26 May 1923 – 27 August 2005) 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
Bayonne
Bayonne () is a city in southwestern France near the France–Spain border, Spanish border. It is a communes of France, commune and one of two subprefectures in France, subprefectures in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques departments of France, departm ...
, Alvarez was a grandson of
1912 Olympic rower Pierre Alvarez, who hailed originally from Asturias in Spain. He took up rugby during World War II, when his favoured sport of
association football
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ceased to be played.
Alvarez featured in the
Aviron Bayonnais
Aviron Bayonnais (AB, ), commonly called Bayonne, is a French rugby union club from Bayonne (''Baiona'' in Basque) in Pyrénées-Atlantiques which competes in the Top 14, the top tier of the National Rugby League (France), French league system.
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side which won the French Championship in 1943. He was capped 20 times for
France
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from 1945 to 1951, as a fullback and occasional fly–half. During his
Five Nations career, Alvarez appeared in France's first ever wins on English and Welsh soil. He also played for Racing Club of France and US Tyrosse.
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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André Alvarezat Fédération Française de Rugby
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1923 births
2005 deaths
French rugby union players
France international rugby union players
French people of Spanish descent
Aviron Bayonnais players
Racing 92 players
Union Sportive Tyrosse Rugby Côte Sud players
Rugby union players from Bayonne
Rugby union fullbacks
Rugby union fly-halves