Rugby player
 Horațiu Pungea during a press conference before departing for 2015 Rugby World Cup | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth name | Horațiu Eugen Pungea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1986-02-18) 18 February 1986 (age 38) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Luduș, Mureș County, Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 295 lb (134 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Horațiu Eugen Pungea (born 18 February 1986) is a Romanian rugby union footballer. He plays as a prop for Lyon.
He started his career at CS Universitatea Cluj-Napoca before moving to play for RC Timișoara in the Romanian Rugby Championship. In October 2013 he signed a short-term deal with the Scarlets
He has 30 caps for Romania, having to score yet his first points. He made his international debut on 10 November 2012, in a 23-34 loss to Japan, in Bucharest. He was selected in the Romania squad for their autumn internationals in November 2013. He was called for the 2015 Rugby World Cup. He played in two games as a substitute.
External links
- Horațiu Pungea at ESPNscrum
- Horațiu Pungea at ItsRugby.co.uk
- Horațiu Pungea at European Professional Club Rugby
- Horațiu Pungea at Romanian Rugby SuperLiga (in Romanian)
- Horațiu Pungea at Timișoara Saracens website
| Romania squad – 2015 Rugby World Cup | |
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| Head coach: Howells | |
- 1986 births
- Living people
- People from Luduș
- Romanian rugby union players
- Romania international rugby union players
- SCM Rugby Timișoara players
- Scarlets players
- Lyon OU Rugby players
- Oyonnax Rugby players
- Llanelli RFC players
- București Wolves players
- Rugby union props
- Sportspeople from Mureș County
- 2015 Rugby World Cup players
- Romanian expatriate rugby union players in France