English winger Christian Wade, who until then played in the NFL, the American football championship, has signed up with Racing 92 "as an additional player" until the end of the 2022-2023 season, announced Monday the Ile-de-France club of the Top 14.
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Wade, English international (1 cap against Argentina in 2013), played for Wasps between 2011 and 2018.
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He then spent the past four years trying to break into the NFL, including training with the Buffalo Bills between 2019 and 2021.
The 31-year-old player arrives as a medical joker to replace the Welsh Regan Grace, former treiziste, victim of a ruptured Achilles tendon and absent at least until the end of 2022.