Matías Alemanno

Matías Alemanno
Personal information
Full nameMatías Alemanno
Born5 December 1991
Córdoba, Argentina
Height1.99 m (6 ft 6 in)
Weight117 kg (18 st 6 lb)
Club information
Playing positionLock
Current clubLa Tablada
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Pts)
2011–La Tablada()
2013–Pampas XV11(5)
Representative team(s)
2009-10Argentina Under-194(5)
2010-11Argentina Under-2013(0)
2012-13Argentina Jaguars9(0)
2014–Argentina11(5)
* Senior club appearances and points correct as of 16 August 2014.

† Appearances (Points).

‡ Representative team caps and points correct as of 5 October 2014.

Matías Alemanno (born 5 December 1991) is an Argentine rugby union footballer who plays as a lock for Club La Tablada and the Argentina national rugby union team.[1][2][3]

International career

Alemmano was a member of the Argentina Under-20 sides which competed in the 2010 and 2011 IRB Junior World Championships[4] and later went on to play for Argentina's representative teams, the Jaguars and the Pampas XV. He was a member of the Pampas XV squad for the 2013 Vodacom Cup in South Africa and he also went on their tour of Australia in 2014.[1]

He made his senior debut for Los Pumas on 17 May 2014, scoring a try in Argentina's comfortable win over Uruguay. He also played in the victory over Chile a week later and played in all of his country's 3 matches during the 2014 mid-year rugby union internationals series.[1]

In August 2014, he was named in the squad for the 2014 Rugby Championship.[5]

Alemanno is signed to play for Argentina (Super Rugby) until 2017.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Matías Alemanno Argentina Rugby Player Profile". UAR. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
  2. "Matías Alemanno ESPN Scrum Player Profile". ESPN. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
  3. "Matías Alemanno itsrugby.co.uk Player Statistics". itsrugby.co.uk. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
  4. "Matías Alemanno IRB JWC Player Profile". IRB.com. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
  5. "Pumas squad for the Rugby Championship". Sanzar Rugby. 4 August 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2014.