Sébastien Chabal

Sébastien Chabal born 8 December 1977 is a French former rugby union player He played number eight and lock for Bourgoin 19982004 Sale Sharks 20042009 Racing Métro 92 Paris 2009 February 2012 and for the French national team Chabal played professionally for 16 years and won the English Premiership with Sale and the 2007 Six Nations Championship with France He also finished in fourth place at the 2007 Rugby World Cup He earned his first international cap on 4 March 2000 against Scotland and represented France in 62 games He is known for his full beard long hair and ferocious tackling leading the French rugby fans to nickname him lHomme des Cavernes Caveman With this look he has a number of lucrative commercial contracts He was one of the most popular sportsmen in France so much that local journalists wrote about Chabalmania Born on 8 December 1977 in Valence Drôme Chabal grew up in BeaumontlèsValence in the Drôme department in southeast France His modest family was originally from Ardèche His father worked in a garage and his mother worked in a jewellery storePassionate about mechanical works he attended a Lycée professionnel where he studied for and obtained a brevet détudes professionnelles in mechanicsHe then worked as a milling machine operator in a Salmson factory in Crest While working in Crest he played rugby for the amateur club in Beauvallon When he joined Valence Sportif he left his factory job and became a professional rugby union player While playing for BourgoinJallieu he married Annick and became stepfather to her daughter who was born in 1994 In 2005 he welcomed the birth of his daughter LilyRose Chabal is a member of the Champions for Peace club a group of 54 famous athletes committed to serving peace in the world through sport created by Monacobased international organization Peace and Sport In 2019 Sébastien Chabal studied at EM Lyon Business School Chabal first tried rugby at the age of nine but gave it up after just two months However he again tried his hand at rugby when he was sixteen by following two friends who played for the local club in Beauvallon This time he discovered a passion for the game and the camaraderie that follows matches Source Article Sébastien Chabal from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30