Bernard Herrero
| Date of birth | 19 September 1957 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Toulon, France | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 209 lb (95 kg) | ||||||||||||||||
| Notable relative(s) | André Herrero (brother) | ||||||||||||||||
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Bernard Herrero (born 19 September 1957) is a French former rugby union international.
Born in Toulon, Herrero is the youngest of four brothers to have played for RC Toulon, which includes another France international in André Herrero. He is of Spanish descent.[1]
Herrero, nicknamed "le Tigre" (the Tiger), played as a hooker and was capped twice for the national team. He featured against Ireland at Lansdowne Road in the 1983 Five Nations and played against the Pumas on the 1986 tour of Argentina.[2] His time at Toulon included a Brennus Shield win in 1987 and he also had a stint with RC Nice, from where he had gained his France caps. In 1988, Herrero was shot by a drunken customer he had expelled from the bar he owned in the port of Toulon, receiving career-ending injuries to his abdomen and hip.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Le Top 10 des meilleurs joueurs de l'histoire de Toulon". rugbyrama.fr (in French). 16 April 2016.
- ^ "Wales drop Williams". The Guardian. 10 February 1983.
- ^ "Un Toulonnais". L'Humanité (in French). 24 January 1991. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015.
External links
[edit]- Bernard Herrero at ESPNscrum
- 1957 births
- Living people
- French rugby union players
- France international rugby union players
- Sportspeople from Toulon
- Rugby union players from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- RC Toulon players
- Rugby Nice Côte d'Azur players
- Rugby union hookers
- French people of Spanish descent
- Sportspeople of Spanish descent
- French shooting survivors