Evgeny Matveev (rugby union)
Date of birth | 15 April 1984 | ||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Penza, Russia | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Weight | 101.6 kg (16 st 0 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
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Evgeny Yuryevich Matveev (Russian: Евгений Юрьевич Матвеев) (born Penza, 15 April 1984) is a Russian rugby union player. He plays as a hooker and as a flanker.
He plays for VVA Saracens.
He has 55 caps for Russia, since 2007, with 10 tries scored, 50 points on aggregate. He was called for the 2011 Rugby World Cup, playing in two games and without scoring. He was a regular player in the Russia side that qualified for the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan.[1]
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Categories:
- 1984 births
- Living people
- Russian rugby union players
- Russia international rugby union players
- VVA Podmoskovye players
- Rugby union hookers
- Rugby union flankers
- Sportspeople from Penza
- Russian sportspeople stubs
- European rugby union biography stubs