Ruben Spachuck Explained

Ruben Spachuk
Birth Name:Cristian Ruben Spachuk
Birth Date:14 February 1981
Birth Place:Argentina
Height:[1]
Weight:114kg (251lb)
Ru Position:Prop
Ru Nationalyears:2005–2014
Ru Nationalcaps:47
Ru Nationalpoints:(10) 2t
Ru Ntupdate:20 June 2013
Ru Clubyears:– 2007
2007 – 2008
2008 – 2009
2009 – 2011
2011 – 2017
Ru Clubcaps:
22
13
31
110
Ru Clubpoints:
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
Ru Clubupdate:6 July 2020

Cristian Ruben Spachuck, commonly known as Ruben Spachuck (born 14 February 1981), is an Argentine-born Portuguese rugby union footballer. He played as a prop.

He was one of the four Belenenses players at the 2007 Rugby World Cup finals. He moved to the French team of Blagnac after the tournament, where he played in 2007/08. He also would play for FC Auch Gers, in 2008/09, US Colomiers, from 2009/10 to 2010/11, and CS Bourgoin-Jallieu, where he played from 2011/12 to 2016/17, when he finished his career.

He had 47 caps for Portugal, from 2005 to 2014, with 2 tries scored, 10 points on aggregate. Spachuck's first game for Portugal came on 5 February 2005, against Georgia, in an 18–14 win. He played in all the four games of Portugal at the 2007 Rugby World Cup, without scoring. He had his last game on 8 March 2014, in a 34–18 defeat to Russia, in Sochi, aged 33 years old, in a 2015 Rugby World Cup qualifier.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cristian Ruben SPACHUK – Fiche joueur – It's rugby. www.itsrugby.fr.
  2. Web site: Reuben Cristian Spachuk. ESPN scrum.