France international rugby union &amp; league player (1942-2019)
Rugby player
Michel Sitjar (13 September 1942 – 10 June 2019) was an international rugby union &amp; rugby league player for France and played club rugby for Agen. He also tried rugby league for a year in XIII Catalan after brutally stopping his career at 28. Sitjar played as a flanker and won three Brennus Shields with the Sporting Union Agenais (1962, 1965 and 1966). 
In 2008 he published his first collection of poems ("Rugby &amp; Poésie"), followed by the second one "Rugby &amp; Poésie, deuxième mi-temps" two years later. 
Sitjar committed suicide by gunshot at his home in Lamagistère on June 10, 2019. 
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