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Full name | Matthew Peter Burke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | St Margaret's Hospital, New South Wales, Australia | 15 September 1964||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Matthew Peter Burke (born 15 September 1964) is an Australian former rugby union and rugby league footballer. He later served as a Waverley Council lifeguard on Bondi Beach.
Born in St Margaret's Hospital in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills., [2] Burke attended Waverley College in Sydney's eastern suburbs, graduating in 1981. [3]
Burke made his debut for the Australian national rugby union team on 3 November 1984. [2] He played 23 tests for the Wallabies on the wing and scored 15 tries, including five in the 1987 Rugby World Cup. [2] Between 1988 and 1992, he played rugby league for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, Eastern Suburbs Roosters and Balmain Tigers in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership. [4] After a promising start, Burke's professional career stalled and he was relegated to lower grade football with Easts and Balmain. [4]
For some time after retirement, Burke ran the Mill Hill pub in Bondi Junction. [5] He later spent two seasons as a Waverley Council lifeguard on Bondi Beach, [5] appearing on the factual television programme Bondi Rescue. [6] As of November 2009, he was a proprietor of the Primavera Espresso Bar in the Sydney CBD. [5]
Burke's father, Peter, was a rugby league international and played for Manly-Warringah. [4] [7] Burke has three brothers, Brad, Daniel and Patrick. [7]
There was winger Matthew Burke, who played rugby league with Easts, Manly and Balmain and ran the Mill Hill pub in Bondi Junction.
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Matthew Peter Burke (born 15 September 1964) is an Australian former rugby union and rugby league footballer. He later served as a Waverley Council lifeguard on Bondi Beach.
Born in St Margaret's Hospital in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills., [2] Burke attended Waverley College in Sydney's eastern suburbs, graduating in 1981. [3]
Burke made his debut for the Australian national rugby union team on 3 November 1984. [2] He played 23 tests for the Wallabies on the wing and scored 15 tries, including five in the 1987 Rugby World Cup. [2] Between 1988 and 1992, he played rugby league for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, Eastern Suburbs Roosters and Balmain Tigers in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership. [4] After a promising start, Burke's professional career stalled and he was relegated to lower grade football with Easts and Balmain. [4]
For some time after retirement, Burke ran the Mill Hill pub in Bondi Junction. [5] He later spent two seasons as a Waverley Council lifeguard on Bondi Beach, [5] appearing on the factual television programme Bondi Rescue. [6] As of November 2009, he was a proprietor of the Primavera Espresso Bar in the Sydney CBD. [5]
Burke's father, Peter, was a rugby league international and played for Manly-Warringah. [4] [7] Burke has three brothers, Brad, Daniel and Patrick. [7]
There was winger Matthew Burke, who played rugby league with Easts, Manly and Balmain and ran the Mill Hill pub in Bondi Junction.