Byron Kelleher
 |
|||
| Full name | Byron Terrance Kelleher | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 3 December 1976 | ||
| Place of birth | Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Weight | 95 kg (14 st 13 lb) | ||
| School | Otago Boys High School | ||
| Occupation(s) | Professional Rugby Union Footballer | ||
| Rugby union career | |||
| Playing career | |||
| Position | Half-back | ||
| New Zealand No. | 983 | ||
| Professional / senior clubs | |||
| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2007–2011 2011- |
Toulouse Stade Francais |
97 | (60) |
| correct as of 16 August 2011. | |||
| Provincial/State sides | |||
| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1997–2003 2004–2006 |
Otago Waikato |
60 14 |
(85) (10) |
| Super Rugby | |||
| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1998–2003 2004–2007 |
Highlanders Chiefs |
54 38 |
(80) (20) |
| National team(s) | |||
| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1999–2007 | New Zealand | 57 | (40) |
Byron Terrance Kelleher (born 3 December 1976 in Dunedin, New Zealand) is a rugby union scrum-half who currently plays for Stade Francais in the French Top 14, and has played 57 tests for the All Blacks. He went to Otago Boys' High School, and originally played for Otago in the NPC and the Highlanders in the Super 14, moving north in 2004 to play for Waikato and the Chiefs. He is 1.75m tall and weighs 95 kg. He was New Zealand's Super 12 Player of the Year in 1999. After meeting in 2005 Kelleher began a high profile relationship with pornography star Kaylani Lei, which ended in June 2006.
Kelleher had signed a contract to play for Agen in the Top 14 after the 2007 Rugby World Cup;Cain, Nick (2007-04-29). "Player exodus threatens world order". London: The Sunday Times. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/rugby_union/article1719922.ece. Retrieved 2007-04-30. however, the club's relegation to the second-level Rugby Pro D2 after the 2006-07 Top 14 season caused the contract to be cancelled. Kelleher went on to sign with traditional Top 14 powers Toulouse, effective with the end of the Rugby World Cup. He won the "Bouclier de Brennus" (the French Rugby Union Title) in the 2007-08 Top 14 season with Stade Toulousain, and was elected by the Top 14 players as the season's best player.
In 2010, he was selected in the French Barbarians squad to play Tonga on 26 November.
He is known as an unpredictable and unorthodox halfback, with his speed and strength, sometimes preferring to run with the ball and make line-breaks rather than passing the ball after rucks and mauls.
[edit] Notes and references
[edit] External links
|
|||||||||||
|
|||||||||||
|
|||||||||||
|
|||||||||||
|
|||||||||||
- Stade Français Paris
- 1976 births
- New Zealand international rugby union players
- Chiefs rugby union players
- Expatriate rugby union players in France
- Former students of Otago Boys' High School
- Highlanders rugby union players
- Living people
- New Zealand rugby union players
- New Zealand people of Irish descent
- People from the Otago Region
- Rugby union scrum-halves
- Stade Toulousain rugby union players
- Stade Français rugby players
