Nicolás Brignoni

Nicolás Brignoni
Date of birth (1976-09-03) September 3, 1976 (age 48)
Place of birthMontevideo, Uruguay
Height6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Weight235 lb (107 kg)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Flanker
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
-2002 Montevideo Cricket Club ()
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2002-2006 L'Aquila ()
2006-2007 Montauban 15 (0)
2007-2010 Oyonnax 53 (25)
2014 UA Libourne 8 (0)
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1998-2010 Uruguay 47 (45)

Nicolas Brignoni (born 3 September 1976 in Montevideo)[1] is a former Uruguayan rugby union player, of Swiss origin. He played as a flanker.

Career

Brignoni played in Europe for L'Aquila Rugby, from Italy, from 2002/2003 to 2005/2006, and US Montauban, from France, in 2006/2007. He played for Oyonnax Rugby, another French team, from 2007/08 to 2009/10. He last played for French side UA Libourne in the Fédérale 1, in 2014.

He holds 47 caps with 9 tries scored, 45 points in aggregate, for Uruguay national rugby union team. His first game was at 8 June 1998 in a 72-5 loss to Argentina XV, in Buenos Aires, in a tour. He played four games at the 1999 Rugby World Cup, scoring a try, and three games at the 2003 Rugby World Cup, where he scored an important try against Georgia. He had his last cap at the 21-21 draw with Romania, at 23 November 2010, for the 2011 Rugby World Cup qualification repechage, in Montevideo.

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