Rugby player
| Date of birth | (1981-12-28) 28 December 1981 (age 42) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Mozambique | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 83 kg (183 lb; 13.1 st) | ||||||||||||||||
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Paulo Murinello (born Mozambique, 4 May 1974) is a former Portuguese rugby union player and a current coach. He played as a flanker. He last played for Cascais. He's also an alumnus of Sports Management at the Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, in Lisbon.
Murinello had 54 caps for Portugal, from 1993 to 2007, scoring 2 try, 10 points in aggregate. He scored the only Portuguese try in the 11–102 loss to Wales, in Lisbon, at 18 May 1994, for the 1995 Rugby World Cup qualifyings. It was the first time Portugal ever played a then Five Nations Championship nation. Murinello was in the squad for the 2007 Rugby World Cup, playing in all the four matches.
References
External links
- Paulo Murinello at ESPNscrum
- Paulo Murinello blog (in Portuguese)
| Portugal squad – 2007 Rugby World Cup | |
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| Forwards | |
| Backs | |
| Coach: Morais | |
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- Portuguese rugby union coaches
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- Mozambican people of Portuguese descent
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- Sportspeople from Cascais
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- 2007 Rugby World Cup players
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