Damien Tussac
Damien Tussac (born 2 January 1988)[1] is a German international rugby union player, playing for Castres Olympique in the Top 14 and the German national rugby union team. He is a French citizen but qualifies to play for Germany because of a German grandmother.
Birth name | Damien Tussac | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 2 January 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Avignon, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 128 kg (20 st 2 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tussac made his debut for Germany against Georgia on 7 February 2009.[1][2]
He played junior rugby for La Valette-du-Var, Stade Toulousain and SC Albi before joining RC Toulonnais in 2008.[3] In the 2009–10 season, he has made appearances for the club in league and European Challenge Cup matches,[4][5] but is still part of the club's under-21 team.[6]
He signed a contract with Toulon in effect to December 2009.[7]
Tussac made his debut for the senior team of RC Toulonnais in 2010–11 in a 43–12 win on 23 April 2011 against USA Perpignan. He also appeared once in the Heineken Cup, against the same team and in the same month, but then in an away defeat.[8]
For the 2012–13 season he joint Leeds Carnegie, playing in the RFU Championship.[9]
Stats
Damien Tussac's personal statistics in club and international rugby:[10]
Club
Year | Club | Division | Games | Tries | Con | Pen | DG | Place |
2008–09 | RC Toulonnais | Espoirs | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
2009–10 | Top 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2nd | |
2010–11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8th | ||
2011–12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3rd | ||
2012–13 | Leeds Carnegie | RFU Championship |
- As of 23 July 2012
References
- Damien Tussac profile at scrum.com accessed: 6 March 2010
- 6NB: crucial competition gets going Archived 22 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine rugbyrugby.com, accessed: 6 March 2010
- Parcours de Damien TUSSAC (in French) RC Toulon website, accessed: 6 March 2010
- Tussac Damien itsrugby.co.uk, accessed: 6 March 2010
- DAMIEN TUSSAC (in French) lequipe.fr, accessed: 6 March 2010
- RC Toulon under-21 squad (in French) RC Toulon website, accessed: 6 March 2010
- Les jeunes toulonnais prolongent leur contrat ! Archived 18 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine (in French) RC Toulon website, published: 14 December 2010, accessed: 15 December 2010
- Damien Tussac (in French) at itsrugby.fr, accessed: 26 August 2011
- Damien Tussac Archived 26 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine Leeds Carnegie website, accessed: 23 July 2012
- Damien Tussac profile at totalrugby.de (in German) accessed: 6 March 2010
External links
- Damien Tussac at scrum.com
- (in German) Damien Tussac at totalrugby.de
- (in French) Damien Tussac at the RC Toulon website
- Damien Tussac (in French) at itsrugby.fr