Personal information
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Full name | Robert Peter Farah | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Campsie, New South Wales, Australia |
23 January 1984 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 179 cm (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 90 kg (14 st 2 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing information
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Position | Hooker, Halfback | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Robert Peter "Robbie" Farah (Arabic: روبي فرح) (born 23 January 1984) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the NRL. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australia national representative hooker, he has played the majority of his professional career with the Wests Tigers, with whom he won the 2005 NRL Premiership. Between 2006 and 2012, Farah represented City Origin six times, captaining the team from 2009 onwards.
Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Farah is of Lebanese descent and was educated at St Mel's Primary, Campsie,De La Salle College Ashfield, and the University of Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Economics in 2010.
Farah is a supporter of Liverpool F.C. in English football's Premier League, his favourite player being Steven Gerrard.
A junior with Enfield Federals and Leichhardt Wanderers, as an 18-year-old in 2002, he toured with the Lebanese team, playing France in Tripoli and scoring a try.