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TAGIR GADZHIEV

“I come from a place where we have to fight for everything.
You can’t show weakness”

is Tagir Gadzhiev but some call him Tiger. “That’s what he is,” says Lyn Jones, the Welshman in charge of Russia at the World Cup. “He’s a tough boy, a blindside or openside flanker who could play at a higher level, no doubt about it. He’s 25 and he would absolutely thrive in a

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