About Ben Barba
Benjamin Barba (born 13 June 1989) is an Australian former professional dual code rugby league and rugby union footballer who last played for St Helens in the Super League. He primarily played as a fullback or five-eighth. Barba won the Dally M Medal award for Player of the Year in 2012 while he was at the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. Barba also played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, the Brisbane Broncos in 2014 and the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks where he was part of Cronulla's maiden NRL premiership win in the 2016 NRL Grand Final. In 2018, he won the Man of Steel Award for Super League Player of the Year while playing for St Helens. Barba is only the second man to win both the Dally M Medal and the Man of Steel award, after Gavin Miller. Barba also had a brief stint in rugby union with RC Toulonnais. In his first season at Belmore, Barba played in the Jersey Flegg competition, where he scored 130 points in 11 games. As the season went on, Canterbury kept on losing games and were possibly going to win the wooden spoon resulting in the fans urging that Barba be put into first grade.
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