Will Green (rugby union)
| Birth name | William Robert Green | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 25 October 1973 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Littlehampton, West Sussex, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 256 lb (18 st 4 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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William Robert Green (born 25 October 1973 in Littlehampton) is a retired rugby union footballer who played at prop for Wasps and Leinster.
Club career
[edit]Green began his career at Wasps, making his debut in 1995[2] and remained there until 2005. Whilst at Wasps he won the Heineken Cup in 2004,[3] the Challenge Cup in 2003[4] and the domestic Anglo-Welsh Cup (currently known as the LV Cup) in 1999[5] and 2000.[6] He was also part of the Wasps team which won the Premiership in 1996/97[7] and a further hat-trick of Premiership titles in 2003,[8] 2004[9] and 2005.[10] In the summer of 2005 he joined Leinster[11] where he remained until his retirement from the game in 2007.[12]
International career
[edit]Green had previously played for various England youth teams alongside the likes of Will Greenwood, Matt Dawson, Simon Shaw and Richard Hill.[13] After making his England debut against Australia in November 1997, Green went on to make 4 appearances for the national team. He was considered an outside candidate to be part of Clive Woodward's ultimately victorious 2003 Rugby World Cup winning squad.[14] However, he was overlooked in the end, despite getting his 4th and final cap against Wales in one of England's warm up games prior to the World Cup,[1] and being in the wider 43-man squad.[15]
Honours
[edit]- English Champions titles: 4
- 1996/97, 2002/03, 2003/04, 2004/05
- RFU Tetley's Bitter Cup & Powergen Cup / Powergen Anglo Welsh Cup titles: 2
- 1998/99, 1999/2000
- Heineken Cup titles: 1
- 2003/04
- Parker Pen Challenge Cup titles: 1
- 2002/03
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Will Green". ESPNscrum. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
- ^ "Will Green Exclusive Interview". rugbynetwork.net. 17 July 2003. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
- ^ "Wasps rule Europe after sting of all stings". The Guardian. London. 24 May 2004. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
- ^ "Bath Rugby 30 v 48 London Wasps". ercrugby.com. 25 May 2003. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
- ^ "Wasps win Cup at last". BBC. 16 May 1999. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
- ^ "Wasps deny Saints cup double". BBC. 13 May 2000. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
- ^ "London Wasps Squad 1996/1997". wasps.co.uk. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
- ^ "Melville rails against loss of title deeds". The Guardian. London. 2 June 2003. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
- ^ "Double-up Wasps are seven-day wonders". The Guardian. London. 31 May 2004. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
- ^ "Will o' the Wasps proves too tough for Tigers". The Guardian. London. 15 May 2005. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
- ^ "Green leaving Wasps for Leinster". BBC. 14 April 2005. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
- ^ "Leinster sign Le Roux and Gomez". BBC. 15 May 2007. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
- ^ "Rugby Union: A prop for the hard places". The Independent. London. 1 November 1998.
- ^ "Woodward eyes World Cup options". BBC. 22 July 2003. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
- ^ "Woodward names squad". The Daily Telegraph. London. 9 July 2003. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
External links
[edit]- Will Green at ESPNscrum
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