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ÉMILIEN GAILLETON

SPOTLIGHT ON

Age 19 (13 July 2003)

Born Croydon, UK

Club Pau

Position Centre

Height 6ft 1in

Weight 14st

Instagram handle

@gailleton.emilien

NEXT GENERATION SPECIAL

IN FRANCE, the path to the Top 14 starts not in schools but in the club game. And it demands big decisions, early.

Take Émilien Gailleton. The teenage centre has been blowing the bloody doors off at Pau this year, but back when he was 13 he was striking out on his own, leaving home early to play junior rugby in Agen, away from family and

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