aled peter de malmanche born 11 september 1984 in palmerston north new zealand is a new zealand rugby union footballer he plays at hooker for stade franais in the top 14 he signed in 2011 from the chiefs in super rugby and waikato in the air new zealand cup he has also played for new zealand he can also play as a prop on both sides of the scrum he was also qualified to play for wales through his welsh grandparents but became ineligible after his all blacks debut however with ioc rules taking precedent for rugby following its inclusion in the 2016 olympics de malmanche will be eligible for wales selection for the 2015 rugby world cupde malmanche was educated at hamilton boys high school and also attended waikato institute of technology he played club rugby for hamilton old boys he progressed through agegrade ranks and impressed at provincial rugby level in 2006 for waikato winners of the inaugural 2006 air new zealand cup he made his debut for waikato in 2005 against north harbour in hamilton he played over 35 games for them and scored three tries his first super 14 game was against the brumbies in the 2007 super 14 season he was soon selected into the new zealand mori team playing for them in the 2007 churchill cup against canada his first game for the all blacks was against italy in the 2009 midyear rugby test seriesaled de malmanche is a distant cousin of another former all black jules le lievre in genealogy terminology they 3rd cousins twice removed aled jules are also descendants of the first french settlers to arrive at akaroa in 1840 aboard the vessel comte de paristhey trace their common ancestry to emeri de malmanche and his wife rose victoire jerzeau who arrived in new zealand with their then surviving family a daughter justine rose and a son pierrealed is descended from emeris roses son pierre de malmanche and his wife elizabeth marguerite margaret hamiltonalso aboard the compte de paris was an etienne francois le lievre who subsequently married emeris roses daughter justine rose de malmanche from whom jules le lievre is descended