 Tadjer playing for Massy on 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth name | Mike Tadjer Barbosa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 10 March 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Massy, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 105 kg (16 st 7 lb; 231 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mike Tadjer Barbosa (born 10 March 1989) is a French-born Portuguese rugby union player who plays as a hooker for RC Massy in the Nationale, France’s third tier of rugby.
He first played at RC Massy, where he joined the first team in 2007/08. After a season at Racing Métro 92 (2008/09), where he won the French Pro D2, he returned to RC Massy, where he would play from 2009/10 to 2014/15. He has played since then at SU Agen (2015/16-2016/17), CA Brive (2017/18), FC Grenoble (2018/19), ASM Clermont (2019/20), US Montauban (2020/21), and currently plays for USA Perpignan, since 2021/22.[1][2]
Tadjer has 22 caps for Portugal, with 3 tries scored, 15 points on aggregate. His debut was a 15-7 loss to Romania on 4 February 2012, in Bucharest, for the Six Nations B. He has been playing for the "Lobos" since then, with some lapses of time, being a regular since 2020, and was involved in the 2023 Rugby World Cup qualifying campaign.[3]
Tadjer was born in France to a Portuguese father and Syrian mother.[4]