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| Date of birth | (1991-12-05)5 December 1991 (age 33) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Córdoba, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 112 kg (247 lb; 17 st 9 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Matías Alemanno (born 5 December 1991) is an Argentine professionalrugby union player who plays as alock forPremiership Rugby clubGloucester and theArgentina national team.[2][3]
He was a member of the Pampas XV squad for the2013 Vodacom Cup inSouth Africa and he also went on their tour of Australia in 2014.
Alemanno was signed to play forJaguares until 2020 after which he moved to England to joinGloucester.[4]
Alemmano was a member of theArgentina Under-20 sides which competed in the2010 and2011 IRB Junior World Championships[5] and later went on to play for Argentina's representative teams, the Jaguars and the Pampas XV.[citation needed]
He made his senior debut for Los Pumas on 17 May 2014, scoring a try in Argentina's comfortable win overUruguay. He also played in the victory overChile a week later and played in all of his country's 3 matches during the2014 mid-year rugby union internationals series.[citation needed]
In August 2014, he was named in the squad for the2014 Rugby Championship.[6]
Alemanno was a starter for theArgentina national team on 14 November 2020 in their first ever win against theAll Blacks.[7]
