Younes Khattabi
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Born | Rabat, Morocco | 28 March 1984|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 93 kg (14 st 9 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Wing, Centre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Younes Khattabi (born 28 March 1984) is a Moroccan rugby league footballer who plays as a wing or centre for US Entraigues XIII in the Elite Two Championship. He previously played for SO Avignon and the Catalans Dragons in the Super League. He is notable for scoring the first try for the Catalans Dragons in the 2007 Challenge Cup Final against St. Helens, thus becoming the first Muslim to score a try at Wembley Stadium.[3]
Background
Khattabi was born in Rabat, Morocco.
International career
Khattabi represented Morocco in a 2009 RLEF Euro Med Challenge match against Catalonia. He scored a try in the 29-6 win.
Khattabi represented France in the 2013 Rugby League World Cup.
References
- ^ loverugbyleague
- ^ Rugby League Project stats
- ^ "Showpiece sacrificed to success at Saints gear up for the double". The Guardian. 27 August 2007.
External links
Template:Catalans Dragons - 2007 Challenge Cup Final runners-up
Categories:
- Use dmy dates from June 2013
- 1984 births
- French rugby league players
- French people of Moroccan descent
- Catalans Dragons players
- France national rugby league team players
- Morocco national rugby league team players
- Sporting Olympique Avignon players
- US Entraigues XIII players
- Rugby league wingers
- Rugby league centres
- Sportspeople from Rabat
- Living people
- French rugby league biography stubs