Matías Garafulic
| Birth name | Matias Garafulic Schar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 1 September 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | São Paulo, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 90 kg (200 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Matias Garafulic Schar (born 1 September 2000) is a Chilean international rugby union player, who plays for Selknam.[1][2]
He was part of the Chilean team that qualified for their first Rugby World Cup in 2022, upsetting the odds against Canada and the United States, as Garafulic scored a try in the last game of the Americas qualification against the latter, an historic away win that sealed their qualification for the 2023 World Cup.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Player profile". itsrugby.co.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Cornejo, Aquiles (20 March 2021). "Matías Garafulic y las aspiraciones de los Selknam en la SLAR: "El objetivo principal es ganar el torneo"". La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 July 2022.
- ^ Pengelly, Martin (16 July 2022). "Chile upset USA in Colorado to secure first ever Rugby World Cup place". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
External link[]
- Matías Garafulic at ESPNscrum
- Matías Garafulic at ItsRugby.co.uk
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- 2000 births
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