Max Brito

Max Brito
Date of birth(1968-04-08)8 April 1968
Place of birthAbidjan, Ivory Coast
Date of death19 December 2022(2022-12-19) (aged 54)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Wing
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1995 Ivory Coast 3 (0)

Max Brito (8 April 1968 – 19 December 2022)[1] was an Ivorian rugby union player on the Ivory Coast rugby team. As a result of injuries sustained at the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa, he was paralysed.[2] As of 2007, he could only move his head, torso and an arm.

  1. ^ "Rugby: tétraplégique après le Mondial 95, l'ex-international ivoirien Max Brito est décédé". Midi Libre (in French). Retrieved 22 December 2022.
  2. ^ "The good and bad of Tonga". BBC Sport. 26 September 2003. Retrieved 24 December 2022.