Mike Tadjer

Mike Tadjer

Tadjer playing for Massy on 2014
Birth name	Mike Tadjer Barbosa
Date of birth	(1989-03-10) 10 March 1989 (age 34)
Place of birth	Massy, France
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	105 kg (16 st 7 lb; 231 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Hooker Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) 2007–2008 2008–2009 2009–2015 2015–2017 2017–2018 2018–2019 2019–2020 2020–2021 2021–2023 2023- Massy Racing 92 Massy Agen Brive Grenoble Clermont Montauban Perpignan Massy 3 51 25 22 13 25 27 5 (0) (10) (15) (10) (5) (5) (0) (0) Correct as of 25 January 2024 International career Years Team Apps (Points) 2011–2023 Portugal 22 (10) Correct as of 18 July 2023

Mike Tadjer Barbosa (born 10 March 1989) is a French-born Portuguese rugby union player who plays as a hooker 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 (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 (2017/18), FC Grenoble (2018/19), ASM Clermont (2019/20), US Montauban (2020/21), and currently plays for USA Perpignan, since 2021/22.^[1][2]

International career

Tadjer has 22 caps for Portugal, with 3 tries scored, 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 has been playing for the "Lobos" since then, with some lapses of time, being a regular since 2020, and was involved in the 2023 Rugby World Cup qualifying campaign.^[3]

Personal life

Tadjer was born in France to a Portuguese father and Syrian mother.^[4]

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