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Paul Sironen
Paul Sironen (born 23 May 1965 in North Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of Finnish descent〔http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/state-of-origin/big-guns-facing-the-axe-if-roos-selectors-play-numbers-game-20100501-u04o.html〕 who was a prominent Second-row forward for the Balmain Tigers during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was part of the team that played in successive Grand Finals in 1988 and 1989, and included other representative players Steve "Blocker" Roach, Wayne Pearce, Benny Elias and Garry Jack. He made a number of appearances for both New South Wales in State of Origin, and also for Australia, and has been named as part of the Wests Tigers Team of the Century. Sironen is the father of rookie Wests Tigers five-eighth Curtis Sironen who made his NRL debut for the Tigers against the North Queensland Cowboys in Round 12 of the 2012 NRL season.
==Playing career==
In the early 1980s, the University of Hawaii offered Sironen a scholarship to move to Waikiki in Hawaii and play American football in the position of defensive tackle. Sironen decided that he "never got to touch the ball enough" and, after the first season ended, he moved back to Australia. He joined the Balmain Tigers and, in his debut year, he was named as the Dally M ''Rookie of the Year''. In the 1988 season, Sironen played in the Grand Final in which Balmain where defeated by twenty four points to twelve by the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. The following year the club again made the Grand Final. Unfortunately for the club and Sironen, who scored a try in the match just before half time to give the Tigers a 12-2 lead, the club again lost the Grand Final by nineteen points to fourteen against the Canberra Raiders. In the 1990 season, He was named as the Dally M ''Second-rower of the Year''. At the end of the 1990 NSWRL season, he went on the 1990 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France.
In 1991 Sironen was injured for the majority of the season. At the end of the 1994 NSWRL season, he went on the 1994 Kangaroo tour. At the start of the 1995 season he was named as the captain of the club but he resigned as club captain after six rounds of the competition, in order to focus more specifically on his own game. Sironen surpassed Garry Jack's club record for the most first grade games. At the end of the 1998 season, Sironen left the club to finish out his career for French club US Villeneuve. In total he played 246 matches for the Tigers scoring twenty-two tries for a total of 88 points. He was named as a starting second rower in the Wests Tigers Team of the Century as well as the Balmain Team of the Century. In France, where he was affectionately known as "the beast", Sironen helped his club Villeneuve-sur-Lot to victory in the final of the 1999 French championship season.
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