Place of Birth: Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Date of Birth: 18 November, 1981
Ethnicity:
*French (father)
*Ivorian (mother)
Thierry Dusautoir is a French rugby union player. He captained the France team for a 56 Test Matches record.
Thierry was born in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, to a French father, Bertrand Dusautoir, and an Ivorian mother, Kekane. Thierry’s paternal grandparents owned a coffee and cocoa plantation in Divo, Ivory Coast, where Thierry spent his childhood. He moved with his family to Périgueux, France, when he was ten yeard old.
He did not take up rugby until he was sixteen; before that, his favourite sport was judo.