Matías Alemanno
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| Born | 5 December 1991 Córdoba, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 112 kg (247 lb; 17 st 9 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Matías Alemanno (born 5 December 1991) is an Argentine professional rugby union player who plays as a lock for Premiership Rugby club Gloucester and the Argentina national team.[2][3]
Club career
[edit | edit source]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.
Alemanno was signed to play for Jaguares until 2020 after which he moved to England to join Gloucester.[4]
International career
[edit | edit source]Alemmano was a member of the Argentina Under-20 sides which competed in the 2010 and 2011 IRB Junior World Championships[5] and later went on to play for Argentina's representative teams, the Jaguars and the Pampas XV.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
In August 2014, he was named in the squad for the 2014 Rugby Championship.[6]
Alemanno was a starter for the Argentina national team on 14 November 2020 in their first ever win against the All Blacks.[7]
References
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External links
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- 1991 births
- Living people
- Argentine people of Italian descent
- Sportspeople of Italian descent
- Rugby union players from Córdoba, Argentina
- Rugby union locks
- Pampas XV players
- Jaguares (Super Rugby) players
- 21st-century Argentine sportsmen
- Argentine rugby union players
- Argentina international rugby union players
- 2015 Rugby World Cup players
- 2019 Rugby World Cup players
- 2023 Rugby World Cup players
- Gloucester Rugby players
- Argentine expatriate rugby union players in England
