John Ribot

: January 10, 2024
: Rugby Player

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Full Name	John Ribot
Occupation	Rugby Player
Date Of Birth	Feb 3, 1955(1955-02-03)
Age	69
Birthplace	Brisbane
Country	Australia
Birth City	Queensland
Horoscope	Aquarius

John Ribot Biography

Name	John Ribot
Birthday	Feb 3
Birth Year	1955
Place Of Birth	Brisbane
Home Town	Queensland
Birth Country	Australia
Birth Sign	Aquarius

John Ribot is one of the most popular and richest Rugby Player who was born on February 3, 1955 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. John Ribot (born John Ribot de Bresac on February 3, 1955) Also known as the nickname “Reebs”, is an Australian sports administrator and former player of the rugby league that played during the 70s and the 1980s. At one time an Queensland State of Origin and Australian international representative Portal:Wg (edit | talk links watch the log) and lock Ribot is the 1979 NSWRFL season’s top scorer of equals. A member in the 1982 “Invincibles” Kangaroo touring squad and played soccer for club teams throughout Brisbane with Fortitude Valley, Wests and Redcliffe as well as at Sydney with Newtown, Wests and Manly-Warringah.

It was playing at Western Suburbs in 1980 that Magpies coach Roy Masters moved Ribot from his position as a Lock forward and used his strength on the wings. Because of Ribot’s speed Ribot would often be among the most athletic players on any team he played on. One instance where he displayed his speed on the wing came after his transfer from Manly at the end of 1982. In Manly’s midseason KB Cup competition Final at Leichhardt Oval against Newtown, Ribot was intercepted and raced 65 meters to score, leaving Newtown Lock Graeme O’Grady trailing in his following as he made his way beneath the posts. Manly won the final of the cup 23-8.

After his retirement from football, he became Queensland Rugby League Development Manager and the first Chief Executive Officer of the new Brisbane Broncos club when they were introduced to the New South Wales Rugby League Premiership in 1988. While Ribot’s talents as an administrator were reflected in the club’s success during the 1990s, he was continually at loggerheads with the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) administration, which he saw as leaden-footed and Sydney-centric, so detrimental to the future expansion of the game.

An exponent of national and even international expansion of rugby league, Ribot found News Ltd a willing participant in forming an elite, rival competition in the mid-1990s. Resigning from his position as the Broncos’ Chief Executive, he became CEO of the organisation known as Super League in the war for rugby league in Australia. Ribot partially realised his ‘vision’ in getting the competition up and running in 1997 then resigned as Super League chief executive on 24 June to help facilitate a peace deal being reached with the ARL. He secured the franchise to form a club in Melbourne for the re-united competition in 1998. The Melbourne Storm won the 1999 grand final in only the second season of the club’s existence. In 2000 Ribot was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for his contribution to Australia’s international standing in rugby league. Ribot’s single-minded battle for acceptance in an Aussie rules-dominated city saw the Storm part company with premiership-winning coach Chris Anderson in 2001.

Ribot moved to the south to take part as a player in Ribot moved south to play in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership of the Newtown Jets (1978 and 1979) The Western Suburbs Magpies (1980, where he, along together with Wayne Wigham of the Balmain Tigers was the league’s top scorer, and the year in the year that he gained his first international recognition) and the Manly-Warringah sea Eagles (1982 and 1983). Ribot later played in his former club in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership for the Redcliffe Dolphins (1984 and 1985).

John Ribot Net Worth

Net Worth	$5 Million
Source Of Income	Rugby Player
House	Living in own house.

John Ribot is one of the richest Rugby Player from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John Ribot 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ribot played for club football during The Brisbane Rugby League premiership for Western Suburbs and Fortitude Valley. He was part of Wests the 1977 BRL grand final victory , and was also selected for Queensland too.

Prior to it was introduced State of Origin selection rules Ribot was a representative of in both Queensland in 1977, and then New South Wales in 1978 in accordance with the residential criteria. He was then selected representing Queensland in eight State of Origin matches between 1982 between 1982 and 1985. This makes him one of the very few foundation Origin players with whom NSW appearances were accompanied by selections made for Queensland. He was chosen to Brisbane’s Brisbane representatives in the year 1984 as well as Australia from 1981 to 1985, and played in nine tests and in 1982’s Invincibles tour. In 1982, Ribot established the record for the most attempts of Australia during an international match match with four in Australia’s debut match in a match against Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby.

Ribot was the winner of the Queensland Rugby League Press Writers’ Player of the Year Award in 1985. He was later named as a winger in the Western Suburbs Team of the Eighties.

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Who is John Ribot Dating?

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John Ranked on the list of most popular Rugby Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. John Ribot celebrates birthday on February 3 of every year.

Where is John Ribot now?

Ribot still lives in Melbourne , where he has a number of business interests and remains a regular at Storm home games. His purple pride still runs deep some twenty years after he first created it, he likens the Club’s journey to a “magic carpet ride” that just keeps on giving.