Raimundo Martínez | |
Fullname: | Raimundo Martínez Amar |
Birth Date: | 25 November 1999 |
Birth Place: | Santiago, Chile |
Height: | 1.80NaN0 |
Weight: | 1030NaN0 |
Position: | Number 8, Flanker |
Currentclub: | Selknam |
Years1: | 2021– |
Clubs1: | Selknam |
Apps1: | 22 |
Points1: | 25 |
Repyears1: | 2019– |
Repteam1: | Chile |
Repcaps1: | 10 |
Reppoints1: | 10 |
Repyears2: | 2020–2021 |
Repteam2: | Chile A |
Repcaps2: | 3 |
Reppoints2: | 0 |
Clubupdate: | 28 August 2023 |
Repupdate: | 28 August 2023 |
Raimundo Martínez Amar (born 25 November 1999) is a Chilean professional rugby union player who plays as a number eight for Super Rugby Americas club Selknam and the Chile national team.[1]
Martínez grew up in Santiago, where he played his rugby with the PWCC, before enjoying a spell in the CA Brive academy from 2019 to 2020.[2] [3]
Back in Chile, he played with Selknam in the newly founded Súper Liga Americana de Rugby.[4] He was part of the team that registered historical wins against the Argentinian Jaguares XV,[5] eventually reaching the final of the competition.[6]
Raimundo Martínez is a Chile international since 2018, as Los Cóndores had some historical results in Test matches, beating the likes of recent world cup qualified Russia in 2021.[7]
He was part of the team that qualified for their first Rugby World Cup in 2022, upsetting the odds against Canada and the United States, a serie of historic wins that sealed their qualification for the 2023 World Cup.[8]