Birth Date: | 5 October 1975 |
Birth Place: | Lisbon |
Height: | 1.71 m |
Weight: | 73kg (161lb) |
Ru Position: | Scrum-half |
Repyears1: | 1996–2007 |
Repcaps1: | 73 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
Luís Eduardo Pissarra (born 5 October 1975) is a Portuguese former rugby union player of Argentine descent. He played as a scrum-half for AEIS Agronomia, with whom he won the Campeonato Nacional Honra/Super Bock in 2006–07.
Pissarra has 73 caps for the Portugal national team, from 1996 to 2007. He was the vice-captain of the Portugal squad at the 2007 Rugby World Cup, where he played in all four games. He left the national team after the 8–23 loss to Romania, on 1 December 2007, aged 32, in a match where he was the captain. He never scored during his international career.
He is currently one of the national team's assistant coaches.