{{Short description|France international rugby union player}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Jacques Cristina | image = | caption = | full_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|07|07|df=yes}} | birth_place = Clermont-Ferrand, France | death_date = | death_place = | height = 6 ft 2 in | weight = 229 lb | occupation = | school = | university = | relatives = | position = No. 8 | repyears1 = 1979 | repteam1 = {{nrut|France}} | repcaps1 = 1 | reppoints1 = 0 }} '''Jacques Cristina''' (born 7 July 1948) is a French former international rugby union player.
Born in Clermont-Ferrand, Cristina was a powerful number eight, known by the nickname "le tracteur" (the tractor).<ref name="lamontagne">{{cite news |title=Amitié, gloire et légende : Jacques Cristina (ASM) et Christian Lopez (St-Étienne) |url=https://www.lamontagne.fr/clermont-ferrand-63000/sports/amitie-gloire-et-legende-jacques-cristina-asm-et-christian-lopez-st-etienne_11777482/ |work=La Montagne |date=10 February 2016 |language=fr}}</ref>
Cristina, while with AS Montferrand, made his only international appearance for France in 1979, playing against Romania at Montauban. He may have featured more if not for his studies, having made himself unavailable for that year's New Zealand tour due to exams.<ref name="lamontagne"/> In 1980, Cristina left Montferrand for Stade Clermontois.<ref>{{cite news |title=« Ça nous a fait du bien de nous retrouver, c'était important » : Clermont requinqué par une mise au vert |url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/Article/-ca-nous-a-fait-du-bien-de-nous-retrouver-c-etait-important-clermont-requinque-par-une-mise-au-vert/1517957 |work=L'Équipe |date=3 November 2024 |language=fr}}</ref>
==See also== *List of France national rugby union players
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Sport links}} *[https://www.ffr.fr/equipe-de-france/rugby-a-xv/xv-de-france-masculin/joueurs/cristina-jacques Jacques Cristina] at Fédération Française de Rugby
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