Al Charron
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Al Charron (born on July 27, 1966 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian rugby union footballer. He played at back-row forward and was capped 80 times for the Canadian national team, the Canucks. He played club rugby for Ottawa, Bristol and Pau and Dax.
Charron was a favourite with the supporters of many of the European clubs he played for. Whilst with Bristol he was voted the supporters' Player of the Season for 1998/99 and was awarded the BBC West Rugby Player of the Year award in 1999.
He scored a famous try to defeat Wales at Cardiff Arms Park in late winter 1993.
Noted for recovering from severe knee damage to participate in the 2003 Rugby World Cup as the captain of Canada, his fourth Rugby World Cup tournament. He became only the second international rugby union player of any country to do so, the other being former team-mate and previous Canadian captain Gareth Rees.
He retired from international rugby union on Canada's defeat of Tonga in the 2003 Rugby World Cup pool match.
| Canada squad - 2003 Rugby World Cup | ||
|---|---|---|
| Forwards: | Banks • Charron • Cooke • Cudmore • Douglas • Abrams • Jackson • James • Knaggs • Lawson • Reid • Snow • Thiel • Tkachuk • van Staveren • Yukes |  |
| Backs: | Barker • Cannon • Di Girolamo • Fairhurst • Fauth • Fyffe • King • Lougheed • Pritchard • Stanley • Witkowski • Ross • Smith • Williams | |
| Coach: | Clark | |
