Ruben Spachuck
Birth name | Cristian Ruben Spachuk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | February 14, 1981 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 114 kg (251 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cristian Ruben Spachuck, commonly known as Ruben Spachuck (born 14 February 1981), is an Argentine-born Portuguese rugby union footballer. He played as a prop.
He was one of the four Belenenses players at the 2007 Rugby World Cup finals. He moved to the French team of Blagnac after the tournament, where he played in 2007/08. He also would play for FC Auch Gers, in 2008/09, US Colomiers, from 2009/10 to 2010/11, and CS Bourgoin-Jallieu, where he played from 2011/12 to 2016/17, when he finished his career.
He had 47 caps for Portugal, from 2005 to 2014, with 2 tries scored, 10 points on aggregate. Spachuck's first game for Portugal came on 5 February 2005, against Georgia, in an 18-14 win. He played in all the four games of Portugal at the 2007 Rugby World Cup, without scoring. He had his last game on 8 March 2014, in a 34-18 defeat to Russia, in Sochi, aged 33 years old, in a 2015 Rugby World Cup qualifier.[2]
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References[]
- ^ "Cristian Ruben SPACHUK - Fiche joueur - It's rugby". www.itsrugby.fr.
- ^ "Reuben Cristian Spachuk". ESPN scrum.
- 1981 births
- Living people
- Argentine rugby union players
- Portuguese rugby union players
- Rugby union props
- Portuguese expatriate rugby union players
- Expatriate rugby union players in France
- Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in France
- Argentine emigrants to Portugal
- CS Bourgoin-Jallieu players
- Portugal international rugby union players
- Portuguese sportspeople stubs
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