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Robert Aubert Puig aka Puig Aubert (24 March 1925 in Andernach, Germany – 3 June 1994 in Carcassonne, France), was debatably the greatest French rugby league footballer of all-time〔http://www.playtheball.com/rlwc00/greatest/aubert.asp〕 Over a sixteen-year professional career he would play for Carcassonne, XIII Catalan, Celtic de Paris and Castelnaudary winning five French championships and four French cups along with representing the French national side on a total of forty-six occasions.〔(Le monde du rugby XIII )〕 His position of choice was at fullback and after his retirement in 1960 he would go on to coach Carcassonne and France〔(World Championships 1975 details )〕 along with becoming head French national selector for several years. Aubert was actually born ''Robert Aubert Puig'', but when he signed as a teenager for Carcassonne, there were several other established players that shared the same surname that a local newspaper editor printed his name back-to-front to avoid confusion and it ending up sticking and he became the most famous of them all. His nickname "Pipette" was a reference to his smoking habits, which at several stages saw him smoking on the field.〔(Puig Aubert France, Carcassonne Rugby League Heroes and Hardmen )〕 Quite famously in a game against Wigan (which was played in a snowstorm), he actually caught the ball with one hand while holding a cigarette in the other hand. While he often had unusual habits for a sportsman, there was no denying his talent, he was a master at kicking in play and in overall attack he was both unorthodox and unpredictable. Aside from his playing skill, he developed a reputation based on his somewhat eccentric attitude or charismatic manner. He was known to not tackle a player if he believed it would demonstrate the fault of his team-mates for not previously making the tackle,〔(SouthStander.com )〕 a cause of some controversy during his career. The pinnacle of Aubert's career was on the 1951 tour of Australasia, when he played in twenty-five of France's twenty-nine matches, and scored a record 221 points. Puig-Aubert's performances in 1951 earned him his country's Champion of Champions title – the first time a footballer from any code had been so honoured.〔(Puig Aubert – Ville de Carcassonne )〕 In 1988 he was inducted into the Rugby League Hall of Fame. ==Childhood and early career== Originally being born in Andernach, Germany to a German mother and a French father the Puig family would emigrate to Carcassonne, France while Robert was still in his infancy and it was here where Robert would carve out his immortality in French sport and rugby.〔:fr:Portail:Sport/Grands noms du sport〕 While in his adolescence Robert's father Alphonse Puig (a former French rugby union international)〔:fr:Puig-Aubert〕 encouraged his son to take up the game of rugby union. Robert originally trialled with the USA Perpignan side and was quickly signed by the club and placed into their junior ranks where in 1943 he helped Perpignan capture the junior French championship. At the beginning of 1944 the Vichy government would lose power meaning that the sport of rugby league was no longer outlawed in France〔(French Rugby League History )〕 and Robert ended his playing days of rugby union and decided to sign with his local club in rugby league AS Carcassonne. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Puig Aubert」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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