Paulo Murinello
Appearance
Date of birth | December 28, 1981 | ||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Mozambique | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Weight | 83 kg (183 lb; 13.1 st) | ||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
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Paulo Murinello (born Mozambique, 4 May 1974) is a former Portuguese rugby union player and a current coach. He played as a flanker. He last played for Cascais. He's also a student of Sport Gestion at the Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, in Lisbon.
Murinello had 54 caps for Portugal, from 1993 to 2007, scoring 2 try, 10 points in aggregate. He scored the only Portuguese try in the 11-102 loss to Wales, in Lisbon, at 18 May 1994, for the 1995 Rugby World Cup qualifyings.[1] It was the first time Portugal ever played a then Five Nations Championship country. Murinello was in the squad for the 2007 Rugby World Cup finals, playing in all the four matches.
References
External links
- Paulo Murinello at ESPNscrum
- Paulo Murinello blog (in Portuguese)
Categories:
- 1974 births
- Living people
- Portuguese rugby union coaches
- Portuguese rugby union players
- Mozambican rugby union players
- Mozambican people of Portuguese descent
- Rugby union flankers
- Sportspeople from Cascais
- Portugal international rugby union players
- 2007 Rugby World Cup players
- Portuguese sportspeople stubs
- European rugby union biography stubs