| Michel Sitjar | |||||||||
| Birth Date: | 13 September 1942 | ||||||||
| Birth Place: | Castelsagrat, Tarn-et-Garonne, Occitania,France | ||||||||
| Death Place: | Lamagistère, France | ||||||||
| Height: | 1790NaN0 | ||||||||
| Weight: | 920NaN0 | ||||||||
| Occupation: | Rugby player | ||||||||
| Position: | Flanker | ||||||||
| Youthclubs1: | Avenir Valencien | ||||||||
| Years1: | 1961–1970 | ||||||||
| Clubs1: | Sporting Union Agenais | ||||||||
| Repyears1: | 1964–1967 | ||||||||
| Repteam1: | France | ||||||||
| Repcaps1: | 13 | ||||||||
| Reppoints1: | 3 | ||||||||
| Clubupdate: | 20 June 2019 | ||||||||
| Repupdate: | 20 June 2019 | ||||||||
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Michel Sitjar (13 September 1942 – 10 June 2019) was an international rugby union & rugby league player for France and played club rugby for Agen. He also tried rugby league for a year in XIII Catalan after brutally stopping his career at 28. Sitjar played as a flanker and won three Brennus Shields with the Sporting Union Agenais (1962, 1965 and 1966). [1]
In 2008 he published his first collection of poems (Rugby & Poésie), followed by the second one Rugby & Poésie, deuxième mi-temps two years later. [2]
Sitjar committed suicide by gunshot at his home in Lamagistère on June 10, 2019. [3]