Victor Ubogu
{{short description|England international rugby union player (born 1964)}}
{{BLP sources|date=August 2021}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2016}}
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| birth_place = Lagos, Nigeria
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| ru_position = Prop
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Victor Eriakpo Ubogu (born 8 September 1964) is a retired rugby player who played for Bath and England national team.
Travel to England and schooling
In 1977, after arriving in the United Kingdom from Lagos, Nigeria, he attended West Buckland School in Devon.{{Cite web |date=2011-02-19 |title=My School Sport: former England prop Victor Ubogu on how he discovered rugby union |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/schoolsports/8335346/My-School-Sport-former-England-prop-Victor-Ubogu-on-how-he-discovered-rugby-union.html |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=The Telegraph |language=en}} He received the school's top award, the Fortescue Medal. While at the school, he played for England Under-18s. He went on to the University of Birmingham to study chemical engineering. While at university, he played for Moseley. He went on to St Anne's College, Oxford, where he was selected to play with the University of Oxford RFC and achieved his Blue.
Professional career
After leaving Oxford, he joined Bath Rugby. He started for Bath in the victorious 1998 Heineken Cup Final as they defeated Brive.{{cite news|url=http://www.epcrugby.com/matchcentre/17106.php|title=The Third Heineken Cup Final|publisher=epcrugby.com|date=31 January 1998|access-date=24 February 2017|archive-date=26 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026005039/http://www.epcrugby.com/matchcentre/17106.php|url-status=dead}} In 1992, he became a prop for the England national rugby union team, where he remained until 1999.
Post-career ventures
Ubogu founded the "Shoeless Joe's" chain of sports bars.{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-secret-of-my-success-victor-ubogu-1086574.html|title=The Secret Of My Success: Victor Ubogu|date=1999-04-11|newspaper=The Independent|language=en-GB|access-date=2016-11-06}} In 2001, Ubogu appeared on Lily Savage's Blankety Blank.{{cite episode|series=Lily Savage's Blankety Blank|airdate=18 February 2001|network=ITV. Repeated 25 August 2016 on Challenge TV}} Since 2004, he has run a high-end travel and sporting hospitality company, using his initials as its name.
References
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External links
- [http://www.sporting-heroes.net/rugby-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=4877 Victor Ubogu Profile]
- [http://www.vultd.co.uk/ Victor Ubogu's sport hospitality company]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110604234510/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/rugby_union/article7043656.ece Sunday Times article 28 February 2010]
- [https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-secret-of-my-success-victor-ubogu-1086574.html Independent article 4 November 1999]
- [http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/hot-seat-victor-ubogu/story-11353550-detail/story.html Bath Chronicle article 10 May 2011]
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{{England Squad 1999 World Cup}}
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Category:Alumni of St Anne's College, Oxford
Category:Alumni of the University of Birmingham
Category:Black British sportsmen
Category:England international rugby union players
Category:English rugby union players
Category:Birmingham Moseley Rugby players
Category:Nigerian emigrants to the United Kingdom
Category:Oxford University RFC players
Category:People educated at West Buckland School
Category:1995 Rugby World Cup players
Category:1999 Rugby World Cup players
Category:20th-century English sportsmen
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