Ian Rubin

Ian Rubin

Personal information
Nickname	Rubes
Born	(1973-04-17) 17 April 1973 (age 43) Odessa, Ukraine
Playing information
Height	191 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	110 kg (243 lb)
Position	Prop
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1996–99	South Sydney Rabbitohs	45	0	0	0	0
2000–01	Sydney Roosters	39	2	0	0	8
	Total	84	2	0	0	8
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1998–00	Russia	10	1	0	0	4

Ian Rubin (born 17 April 1973 in Odessa, Ukraine) is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1990s. A Russian international representative forward, he played the majority of his professional career in the National Rugby League for the Sydney Roosters and the South Sydney Rabbitohs clubs. Rubin also played on several occasions for his adopted country of Russia, including four appearances as captain of the Russian national team at the 2000 World Cup after qualifying to play for them via the grandparent rule.

Rubin is Jewish. After his family emigrated to Australia in his teens settling in Sydney, Rubin took up rugby league while at school where he was eventually spotted by Rabbitohs scouts in the early 1990s. Rubin then signed his first professional contract for the South Sydney Rabbitohs for the beginning of the 1996 season where he quickly began playing in the first team side for the Sydney club usually playing as an impact prop-forward off the bench.

Rubin eventually made his name as a workhorse forward and over the next three years would go on to make forty-five appearances for the South Sydney side.

Rubin signed for cross-town rivals the Sydney Roosters for the beginning of the 2000 season where he would put together an impressive string of performances for his new club quickly cementing his place as a starting prop-forward and appearing at prop forward in the Roosters 2000 NRL Grand Final loss to the Brisbane Broncos. Shortly after he travelled to England to captain Russia in their 2000 World Cup campaign.

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