Alberto Vernet Basualdo
Date of birth | June 8, 1982 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 109 kg (17 st 2 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alberto Vernet Basualdo (born June 8, 1982 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine rugby union player. His position is hooker. He started playing in Buenos Aires for Asociación Alumni and for Toulouse in France four years; he also played for the Argentine national rugby team, his debut for Los Pumas was on December 4, 2004.
In 2005 he suffered a career threatening neck injury displacing the 5th vertebra and the Intervertebral disc, but he recovered and was selected to represent Argentina at the 2007 Rugby World Cup. He joined Toulouse after the end of the tournament.
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