Matías Moroni

Matías Moroni
Personal information
Full nameMatías Moroni
Born29 March 1991
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight87 kg (13 st 10 lb)
Club information
Playing positionCentre
Current clubCUBA
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Pts)
2010−CUBA52(60)
2014−Pampas XV8(20)
Representative team(s)
2011Argentina Under-205(5)
2012−13Pumas 7s13()
2014–Argentina2(0)
* Senior club appearances and points correct as of 1 December 2014.

† Appearances (Points).

‡ Representative team caps and points correct as of 1 December 2014.

Matías Moroni (born 3 September 1990) is an Argentine rugby union footballer who plays as a loose forward for the Santiago Lawn Tennis Club and the Argentina national rugby union team.[1][2][3]

Career

To date, Moroni has played his entire career in his homeland with the C.U.B.A. club.[1]

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

International career

Moroni was a member of the Argentina Under-20 side which competed in the 2011 IRB Junior World Championship, he also represented the Pumas sevens team in 13 competitions during 2012 and 2013 and was selected by the Pampas XV for their 2014 tour of Oceania.[1]

He made his senior debut for Los Pumas on 20 June 2014 against Scotland in Córdoba.[4] He wasn't selected by the Pumas for the 2014 Rugby Championship, however he did make the squad for the 2014 end-of-year rugby union internationals and he earned his second cap in a 20-18 win over Italy in Genoa.[5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Matías Moroni Argentina Rugby Player Profile". UAR. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  2. "Matías Moroni ESPN Scrum Player Profile". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  3. "Matías Moroni itsrugby.co.uk Player Statistics". itsrugby.co.uk. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  4. "Argentina vs Scotland 20 June 2014". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  5. "Italy vs Argentina 14 November 2014". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 1 December 2014.