Paulo Murinello
| Date of birth | 28 December 1981 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Mozambique | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 83 kg (183 lb; 13.1 st) | ||||||||||||||||
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Paulo Murinello (born Mozambique, 4 May 1974) is a former Portuguese rugby union player and a current coach. He played as a flanker. He last played for Cascais. He's also an alumnus of Sports Management at the Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, in Lisbon.
Murinello had 54 caps for Portugal, from 1993 to 2007, scoring 2 try, 10 points in aggregate. He scored the only Portuguese try in the 11–102 loss to Wales, in Lisbon, at 18 May 1994, for the 1995 Rugby World Cup qualifyings.[1] It was the first time Portugal ever played a then Five Nations Championship nation. Murinello was in the squad for the 2007 Rugby World Cup, playing in all the four matches.
References
External links
- Paulo Murinello at ESPNscrum
- Paulo Murinello blog (in Portuguese)