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| Born | (1974-06-06)6 June 1974 (age 50) Cobar,New South Wales,Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 188 cm (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 98 kg (15 st 6 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Lock, Second-row, Five-eighth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nik Kosef (born 6 June 1974) is an Australian former professionalrugby league footballer who played as alock, five-eighth andsecond-row forward in the 1990s and 2000s. He was a state and international representative whose club career was spent with theManly-Warringah Sea Eagles and theNorthern Eagles.
Kosef made his first-grade debut for Manly in a round 18 match of 1992 against thePenrith Panthers. He played for the club and its related successor the Northern Eagles for eleven consecutive seasons although his last three years were interrupted by injury.
He was a member of Manly's premiership winning side ofseason 1996 as well as the teams which lost the Grand Finals in1995 and1997 toCanterbury andNewcastle respectively.
Four knee injuries limited his appearances at the Northern Eagles to just ten games during the 2000 and 2001 seasons.[citation needed] Kosef made his return to the team in 2002 after sorting out a contract dispute with the club. Kosef accepted a pay-out from Manly for the final year of his contract, and he retired at the end of 2002.[2]
Kosef first represented for theNew South Wales Blues at lock in game I of the1997 State of Origin series at the time when the game was divided by theSuper League war. He held his position in all three games that year. He played in two games in the1998 series and was in the run-on side in all three games of 1999 at lock and second-row.
Kosef made his international representative debut forAustralia in the1995 World Cup in the group match against South Africa and played in three matches in that tournament. He played in the 1996 Test against Papua New Guinea. He represented in one Test againstNew Zealand in 1998, in the Anzac Test of 1999 and in all three matches played against New Zealand and Great Britain in the1999 Tri-Nations series.
Since retiring from rugby league, Kosef is a publican in Queensland.[3]