Matías Garafulic
Chilean rugby union player
Rugby player
| Full name | Matías Garafulic Schar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (2000-09-01) 1 September 2000 (age 23) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Santiago, Chile | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 90 kg (198 lb; 14 st 2 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Matías Garafulic Schar (born 1 September 2000) is a professional rugby union player who plays as a centre for Super Rugby Americas club Selknam. Born in Santiago, he represents Chile at international level after qualifying on residency grounds.[1][2]
International career
He was part of the Chilean team that qualified for their first Rugby World Cup in 2022, upsetting the odds against Canada and the United States, as Garafulic scored a try in the last game of the Americas qualification against the latter, an historic away win that sealed their qualification for the 2023 World Cup.[3]
References
- ^ "Player profile". itsrugby.co.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
- ^ Cornejo, Aquiles (20 March 2021). "Matías Garafulic y las aspiraciones de los Selknam en la SLAR: "El objetivo principal es ganar el torneo"". La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 July 2022.
- ^ Pengelly, Martin (16 July 2022). "Chile upset USA in Colorado to secure first ever Rugby World Cup place". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
External links
- Matías Garafulic at ESPNscrum
- Matías Garafulic at ItsRugby.co.uk
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Selknam – current squad
- Norman Aguayo
- Federico Albrisi
- Javier Carrasco
- Jorge Delgado
- Tomás Dussaillant
- Santiago Edwards
- Javier Eissmann
- Alfonso Escobar
- Diego Escobar
- Ignacio González
- Baltazar Gurruchaga
- Iñaki Gurruchaga
- Esteban Inostroza
- Andrés Kuzmanic
- Marco López
- Salvador Lues
- Raimundo Martínez
- Santiago Pedrero
- Clemente Saavedra
- Augusto Sarmiento
- Ernesto Tchimino
- Inti Ubeda
- Matías Vega
- Clemente Armstrong
- Sebastián Bianchi
- Iñaki Delguy
- Martín Dumay
- Martín Escobar
- Damián Fliegel
- Cristóbal Game
- Matías Garafulic
- Nicolás Garafulic
- Rafael Iriarte
- Federico Kennedy
- Jose Ignacio Larenas
- Felipe Méndez
- Nicolás Roger
- Nicolás Saab
- Tomás Salas
- Luca Strabucchi
- Marcelo Torrealba
- Iñaki Tuset
- Clemente Ulloa
- Franco Velarde
- Benjamín Videla
- Jacob Mangin
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