Carlos Mendes Varela is a Portuguese-born French professional rugby league

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

 player. Arrived in France at 12, he took the French nationality and played in 2008 for the France A team (reserve of the national team). His position is winger or centre. He is currently playing for Toulouse Olympique

Toulouse Olympique

Toulouse Olympique are a French professional rugby league team from Toulouse, in the southwest of France. They were founded on 22 October, in 1937 two years after the founding of the French Rugby League Federation. Between 1995 and 2002 the club were known as Spacers de Toulouse, due to links with...

 in the Co-operative Championship competition in France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 and England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. Prior to his signing with Toulouse he was playing at Lyon in the French first division

Elite One Championship

The Elite One Championship is the top tier French professional domestic rugby league competition....

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External links

• Toulouse Olympique profile
• Widnes Vikings: Portuguese star could figure for Toulouse in Co-operative Championship game Runcorn & Widnes Weekly News