Sporting Olympique Avignon also known as Avignon XIII or SO Avignon are a professional

Professional

A professional is a person who is paid to undertake a specialised set of tasks and to complete them for a fee. The traditional professions were doctors, lawyers, clergymen, and commissioned military officers. Today, the term is applied to estate agents, surveyors , environmental scientists,...

 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...

 team based in Avignon

Avignon

Avignon is a French commune in southeastern France in the départment of the Vaucluse bordered by the left bank of the Rhône river. Of the 94,787 inhabitants of the city on 1 January 2010, 12 000 live in the ancient town centre surrounded by its medieval ramparts.Often referred to as the...

 in the south of France

France

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. They currently play in the Elite One Championship

Elite One Championship

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

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Current squad

2011/12 season Cyril Armani Olivier Arnaud Adrien Berge Florian Bissiere Guillaume Bonnet Joris Cagnac Joris Casal Regis Chave Joris Clement Clement Durandal Michael Escapa Anthony Grand Benjamin Genin Sebastien Imbert Jeremy Jean Brett Kelly

Brett Kelly (rugby league)

Brett Kelly born in Australia is a rugby league player for SO Avignon in the Elite One Championship. He previously played with the Canberra Raiders in the NRL.Brett Kelly's position of choice is as a centre....

 Younes Khattabi

Younes Khattabi

Younes Khattabi is a Moroccan rugby league player currently playing for Carpentras in the French Elite One Championship competition. He is famous for scoring the first try for the Catalans Dragons in the 2007 Challenge Cup Final against St Helens, thus becoming the first Muslim to score a try at...

 Kevin Liguoro Gregory Marssal Darren Nicholls Teli Pelo Yannick Ruh Said Tamghart

Said Tamghart

Said Tamghart is a French-Algerian rugby league player who currently plays for Halifax and is a French international. He plays as a prop and second-row.-Playing career:...

 Julien Tufele Keiran Whalley Aaron Wood