Mike Phillips (rugby player)

As of October 11, 2011 National October 11, 2011

Michael Phillips ( born August 29, 1982 in Carmarthen ) is a Welsh rugby union player. He plays as a scrum half for the Welsh national team and Aviron Bayonnais.

Career

Philip grew up on a farm near St. Clears, Carmarthenshire. His first experience as a rugby player, he gained at the local club Whitland RFC, in which his elder brother was active. About the Carmarthen RFC he came in 2003 to the newly formed province Scarlets team. In the same year his debut for the national team against Romania followed. In 2005 he moved to the Cardiff Blues. After two seasons there, he signed a contract with the rival team Ospreys, where he earned an estimated £ 180,000 a year.

Phillips was part of the Welsh squad for the World Cup 2007. He came on in the games against Canada, Australia and Fiji. Against Japan, he played from the beginning, and scored a try.

Also under the new national coach Warren Gatland Phillips belongs to the permanent staff. He was used in all five games of the Six Nations 2008, in which the Welsh were the Grand Slam win. Here, the game-winning attempt he succeeded in the opening game against England. In March of that year he was injured in the semifinals of the EDF Energy Cup, the Ospreys won in the end. He fell out for half a year, but was again in time to participate in the Six Nations in 2009, where he was used in all games fit.

Phillips was nominated in 2009 for the tour of the British and Irish Lions to South Africa. He came in all three games of the series in the starting lineup and put to use in the first game a try.

After he had played exclusively for Welsh teams, Phillips moved to the 2011/12 season through to French club Aviron Bayonnais.

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