Joaquín Tuculet

Joaquín Tuculet

Birth name	Joaquín Tuculet
Date of birth	(1989-08-08) 8 August 1989 (age 34)
Place of birth	La Plata, Argentina
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	91 kg (14 st 5 lb; 201 lb) [1]
Rugby union career
Position(s) Full-back, Wing, Fly-half, Centre Current team Los Tilos Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) 2015 Los Tilos () Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) 2010–2011 2011 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2016–2020 2021− Los Tilos Pampas XV Sale Sharks Grenoble Bordeaux Bègles Cardiff Blues Jaguares Toronto Arrows 3 10 18 22 4 13 46 (10) (30) (10) (18) (10) (15) (50) Correct as of 22 July 2016 International career Years Team Apps (Points) 2008 2008–09 2009–11 2010 2012–2019 Argentina U19 Argentina U20 Argentina Jaguars Pumas Sevens Argentina 3 10 12 4 56 (27) (0) (48) (80) Correct as of 18 September 2019

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]

Tuculet is capable of playing full-back, wing, centre or fly-half.

Professional career

After 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

External links

• Fiche et Statistiques du joueur sur Métro-Sports

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