Gareth Widdop
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Personal information
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| Full name | Gareth Edward Widdop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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12 March 1989 Halifax, West Yorkshire, England |
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| Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 14 st 2 lb (90 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Playing information
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| Position | Five-eighth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gareth Widdop (born 12 March 1989) is an English professional rugby league footballer who is currently the co-captain of the St. George Illawarra Dragons in the National Rugby League. Widdop primarily plays at five-eighth and fullback and is an England national and World All Stars representative. Widdop previously played for the Melbourne Storm between 2010 and 2013, with whom he won the 2012 NRL Premiership.
Born and brought up in Halifax, Yorkshire, Widdop played his junior rugby for King Cross before moving to Melbourne, Australia with his family at the age of 16 where he attended Bayside College. As a teenager Widdop went to the 2006 NRL Grand Final and continued to play in the Melbourne Rugby League for Altona Roosters under his father Gary. He was introduced to the Storm by Dean Lance and was taken into the Storms Academy U18 program by Paul Bramley the High Performance Manager at the time, he went on to represent Victoria and the Australian Affiliated U18 Schoolboys and he eventually signed for Melbourne Storm's Under 20s team. On 2 September 2009, Widdop was named on the interchange bench in the 2009 NYC Team of the Year. In the 2009 NYC Grand Final against the Wests Tigers NYC Team, Widdop scored the match winning try and goal in the 24-22 win. Widdop was named the Storms' NYC player of the year in 2009.
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