Geordan Murphy

As of August 21, 2011 National September 26, 2011

Geordan Edward Andrew Murphy ( born April 19, 1978 in Dublin) is an Irish rugby union player who plays on the positions of wings and full goalkeeper. He is active for the Leicester Tigers and the Irish national team.

Career

Murphy began his professional rugby career in England with Leicester, where he still plays today. With this team he won the 2001 and 2002 the Heineken Cup, the most important European title for club teams. In Ireland he had previously played for the Newbridge College. In 2000 he made his international debut against the United States and put it two tries. Between 2001 and 2003 he played in 17 games and scored Ireland's seven attempts, but he was injured in a preseason game for the 2003 World Cup hard on the knee, so it turned out for this tournament. He came back to the Six Nations in 2004 and scored a major victory over Scotland an attempt to secure the Triple Crown.

2005 Murphy was nominated for the cadres of the British and Irish Lions and came to two stakes test. With the Leicester Tigers in 2007, he celebrated winning the Guinness Premiership and EDF Energy Cup, but was in the Irish national team no longer unchallenged for stem formation, since it sometimes Girvan Dempsey was preferred, with whom he has since located in the competitive struggle. In the 2007 World Cup, he came to three stakes and put a try against Argentina.

With the Six Nations 2009, the Irish reached after 1948 the second Grand Slam, Murphy came while three inserts. In the same year he won the English championship with the Tigers and reached the final of the Heineken Cup, but it lost to Leinster.