Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Full Name
- Robert Aubert Puig
- Nickname(s)
- Pipette
- Born
- Tuesday, 24th March, 1925
- Died
- Friday, 3rd June, 1994 (Aged 69 years and 71 days)
- Place Of Birth
- Andernach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Awards & Accolades
Playing Career Statistics
All statistics shown in this section are based only on data available in the RLP database, and are not necessarily a complete and/or 100% accurate representation of a player's career. This information should be used as a guide only. If you see a question mark (?), it denotes that the figure is not available.
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Competitions | ||||||||||||||
| Competition | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
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| European Championship | 26 | - | 72 | 9 | 162 | 12 | 14 | 0 | 46.15% | List | ||||
| Tour Matches | France | 30 | 8 | 137 | 2 | 302 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 70.00% | List | |||
| Test Series | 11 | - | 46 | - | 92 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.73% | List | ||||
| World Cup | 4 | - | 12 | 1 | 26 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.00% | List | ||||
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Test Matches - By Team | ||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
| France | 1946-54, 1956 | 46 | 1 | 149 | 12 | 325 | 25 | 20 | 1 | 54.35% | List | |||
World Cup Matches - By Team | ||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
| France | 1946-1954 | 4 | - | 12 | 1 | 26 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.00% | List | |||
Contributions:
Gary Neale, Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson, Keith Bowen
Your Say
Nomenclature says: Puig Aubert ranks amongst the most colourful and quirky players to grace the stage of international RL. His eccentricities on the field
included smoking a cigarette whilst playing in a game (hence his nickname), and as full-back, refusing to tackle opposition players who had made breaks through the first line of defence - turning instead to berate his team mates for the ineptness of their tackling.
Notwithstanding this he was an inspiring leader
for the champion 1951 French side and a spectacularly brillant goalkicker. He was famous for the trick shot of placing the ball where the corner post would be and kicking a goal (cornerkick soccer style) by curling it through the posts! (11/05/2012)
The Noctambulist says: Turned goal-kicking orthodoxy on its head: after placing the ball on the mound, instead of carefully measuring his steps backwards ever concentrating on the target, he would simply turn around and nonchalantly walk back several paces, turn again, take aim and kick. Very different! (22/05/2012)
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