Mark Perego
Mark Perego (born 8 February 1964 in Winchester, England) is a former Wales international rugby union player. A flanker, he played club rugby for Llanelli and attained 9 caps for the Wales national rugby union team.
| Birth name | Mark Perego | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 8 February 1964 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Winchester, Hampshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rugby
Perego made his Wales debut 3 March 1990 versus Scotland. He went on to be a key player in the Welsh championship-winning team of the 1994 Five Nations.
His strengths as a player included his powerful tackling and his phenomenal fitness, the latter of which he maintained through a highly-effective, but eccentric, training regime. In a famous sequence, BBC Wales filmed him running through a river in a pink beret and chopping trees with an axe.
Perego's nickname was Oddball and he was featured in the 2009 book Rugby's Greatest Characters.[1]
Personal life
Perego was a fireman by trade. He was previously married to Welsh international Non Evans and is the uncle of Welsh professional rugby union player Kirby Myhill.
References
- Steffan Rhys (25 October 2009), Book reveals the great characters of amateur rugby era, Walesonline