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AAP Sports News (Australia)
08-16-2010
RL:Dual international Rogers retires

SYDNEY, Aug 16 AAP - Dual international Mat Rogers has announced his retirement from
professional sport after a glittering NRL and rugby union career.

The 34-year-old will finish up with the Gold Coast Titans at the end of 2010, after
four seasons with the fledgling club, who were struggling to come up with enough money
to keep him.

Rogers has played 194 first-grade matches and has a chance to notch 200 if the Titans
progress deep into the finals.

The son of league legend Steve Rogers, the versatile back followed in his father's
footsteps and debuted for Cronulla in 1995, where he played 123 top-grade matches.

He was part of one of the club's strongest but most heartbreaking eras - starring alongside
the likes of Andrew Ettingshausen and David Peachey as the Sharks lost the Super League
grand final to Brisbane in 1997, and preliminary finals in 1996, 1999 and 2001.

Rogers, also a first-class goal-kicker, trails only his father for the club's all-time
point-scoring record.

The brilliant winger played five Origin matches for Queensland, and was part of the
Maroons side which retained the shield in 1999.

He also played 11 Tests for Australia, and was a major part of the Kangaroos' World
Cup-winning team in 2000.

Rogers then took a huge risk to walk out on the NRL at the height of his representative
career to join the Australian Rugby Union with an ambition of running out for the Wallabies.

He achieved his dream alongside fellow league convert Wendell Sailor in a Test against
France in June, 2002.

In that match, Rogers and Sailor became the 41st and 42nd Australian dual internationals.

Rogers played 45 Tests for the Wallabies and fullback in the team which lost the 2003
World Cup final in extra time in Sydney in 2003.

Playing fly-half, fullback, wing and centre during his Wallabies career, Rogers scored
163 points.

He played 45 matches for the NSW Waratahs in the Super rugby competition, where he
amassed 202 career points.

Rogers then decided to return to rugby league for the Titans debut NRL season in 2007
- where he permanently became a five-eighth/centre and has played 71 matches for the Gold
Coast.

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