| Birth name | Diego Luis Albanese | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1973-09-17) September 17, 1973 (age 51) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Mar del Plata, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (12 st 8 lb; 176 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | University of Buenos Aires | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Diego Luis Albanese (born September 17, 1973) is an Argentine retired rugby union player who played as a winger. He played for the San Isidro Club in Argentina, French side Grenoble, Gloucester and Leeds Tykes. Albanese made 17 appearances for Gloucester scoring three tries.
He has won 55 caps for Argentina, scoring 50 points, including appearances at the 1995, 1999 and 2003 World Cups. He became famous after scoring the winning try in the World Cup wild card match against Ireland in the 1999 World Cup that put Argentina into their first-ever quarter final.
Albanese joined Leeds Tykes in 2002 on a two-year contract. He made his debut against Leicester Tigers in August 2002 and helped his new side to a 26–13 win. In his first season 2002–2003 Diego made 18 starts in the Zurich Premiership scoring one try, a match winner against Harlequins at Headingley. After returning from the World Cup in 2003, he went on to make eight more starts in the Zurich Premiership scoring one try, Diego was also a try scorer for Leeds Tykes in the Heineken Cup, in the loss to the reigning European Champions Toulouse at Headingley. During his time at Leeds he helped them win the 2004–05 Powergen Cup, for the final of which he was an early replacement for Iain Balshaw.
Albanese left the Tykes at the end of the 2004/05 season to return to SIC in Argentina, where he retired in 2006.
Honours
- Powergen Cup/Anglo-Welsh Cup titles: 1
- 2005
References
- "Bath 12-20 Leeds". BBC. 16 April 2005. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
External links
- RWC2003 profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-11-28)
- Diego Albanese at the World Rugby Men's Sevens Series (archived)
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- 1973 births
- Sportspeople from Mar del Plata
- Rugby union players from Buenos Aires Province
- Argentine rugby union players
- Rugby union wings
- Living people
- San Isidro Club rugby union players
- Gloucester Rugby players
- Leeds Tykes players
- Argentina international rugby union players
- FC Grenoble Rugby players
- Argentine expatriate rugby union players in France
- Argentine expatriate rugby union players in England
- Argentina international rugby sevens players
- Male rugby sevens players
- 1995 Rugby World Cup players
- 1999 Rugby World Cup players
- 2003 Rugby World Cup players