Joaquín Tuculet (born 8 August 1989 in La Plata, Argentina) is an Argentine rugby union player who currently plays for the Toronto Arrows of Major League Rugby (MLR). He also played for the national Argentina team The Pumas and the country's Super Rugby team, the Jaguares. [1]
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| Birth name | Joaquín Tuculet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 8 August 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | La Plata, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 91 kg (14 st 5 lb; 201 lb) [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tuculet is capable of playing full-back, wing, centre or fly-half.
Professional career
editAfter Pampas XV won the Vodacom Cup, Tuculet was selected for Los Jaguares (Argentina A; not to be confused with the Super Rugby team) for the IRB Nations Cup in Romania and was the teams fullback. Tuculet played for Argentina in the IRB Junior World Championship in 2008 in Wales and 2009 in Japan, featuring for Los Pumitas in matches vs Fiji, Ireland, New Zealand and Uruguay as the teams fullback. He got his first cap for Argentina in 2012, playing against Italian Rugby Union team.[citation needed]
Joaquín was part of the Argentina squad that competes in the Rugby Championship.[citation needed]
He was part of the national teams that competed at the 2015 Rugby World Cup and the 2019 Rugby World Cup. In September 2020, Tuculet retired from Los Pumas one day after bringing an end to his contract with the Unión Argentina de Rugby. [2] During early October 2020, the Canadian rugby union team Toronto Arrows signed Tuculet making him the third Argentine to form part of the team along with Tommy de la Vega and Manuel Montero. [3]
References
edit- ^ "Aviva Premiership Rugby - Sale Sharks". web page. Premier Rugby. Archived from the original on 16 June 2012. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
External links
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