Victor Ubogu

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Victor Ubogu
Rugby union career
Date of birth	(1964-09-08) September 8, 1964
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight	238 lb (108 kg)
Playing career
Position	Prop
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1992-1999	England	24	(5)

Victor Eriakpo Ubogu (born September 8, 1964 in Nigeria) is a former Bath and England rugby union player. He also played, whilst still at university, for Moseley.

He attended West Buckland School where he received the school's top award, the Fortescue Medal, and St Anne's College, Oxford. In 1992 he became a prop for the England national rugby union team where he remained until 1999. He also owned a sports bar and did a nude interview on TV and now owns and runs a travel company, offering hospitality at sporting events.

Combining the size and strength typical of a prop with unusual speed for a player specializing in this position, Ubogu was often a highly effective ball-carrier in broken play. Against well-drilled international defences he sometimes lacked penetration, but he frequently embarrassed club-level opposition.^{[citation needed]}

External links

v t e England squad – 1995 Rugby World Cup Fourth Place

Forwards	Back Bayfield Clarke Dawe Johnson Leonard Mallett Moore Richards Rodber Rowntree Ojomoh Ubogu West

Backs	Andrew Bracken Callard Carling (c) Catt Glanville Guscott Hopley Hunter Morris R. Underwood T. Underwood

Coach	Rowell

v t e England squad – 1999 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Archer Back Cockerill Corry Dallaglio Garforth Greening Hill Johnson (c) Leonard McCarthy Grewcock Rodber Rowntree Ubogu Vickery Worsley

Backs	Beal Bracken Catt Dawson De Glanville Grayson Greenwood Guscott Healey Luger Perry Rees Wilkinson

Coach	Woodward

Persondata
Name	Ubogu, Victor
Alternative names
Short description	English rugby union player
Date of birth	September 8, 1964
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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