Jean-Luc Sadourny, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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French rugby union footballer and coach
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Place of Birth: Toulouse, Occitania, France
About Jean-Luc Sadourny
- Jean-Luc Sadourny (born 26 August 1966 in Toulouse) is a former French rugby union footballer and a current coach.
- He played as a fullback.
- He was nicknamed The Old Woman (La Vieille) and he is generally considered one of the best French players of his generation, a fair successor to Serge Blanco in his position. Sadourny played all his career at US Colomiers, which is based in Colomiers, a suburb of Toulouse.
- His best result was the 2nd place in the France Top 14 in 2000. He had 71 caps for France, from 1991 to 2001.
- He scored 15 tries and 4 drop goals, in an aggregate of 86 points, during his international career.
- The French fullback was selected for the 1991 Rugby World Cup finals, playing a single match, and for the 1995 Rugby World Cup finals, playing in all the five matches.
- He helped France to reach the 3rd place in this event.
- He won the Five Nations twice, with grand slams, in 1997 and 1998.
- Sadourny is also remembered for scoring the famous "try from the end of the world" against the All Blacks in 1994.
- In the second and final Test of France's tour of New Zealand, France were trailing with about 3 minutes to play and were pinned deep in their own end by a tactical kick.
- They counter-attacked down the field, with the ball touched by nine different French players before Sadourny touched down to give Les Bleus the points that secured a 23-20 win and a 2–0 series win. After retiring as a player, Sadourny entered the coaching ranks at Colomiers.
- He left to take over the reins at Blagnac for the 2007–08 season, leading them to an appearance in the Fédérale 1 final, where they lost to his former club Colomiers.
- As is standard practice in France, both finalists earned promotion to Rugby Pro D2 for the 2008–09 season.
- However, Sadourny chose not to stay with Blagnac, moving to Fédérale 3 club Stade Saint-Gaudinois for 2008–09, where he currently remains. In 2010, Sadourny opened his own restaurant, the Sadourny Café, in Colomiers.
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