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Matías Moroni

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Matías Moroni

Date of birth

29 March 1991 (age 33)

Place of birth

Height

1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)^[1]

Weight

85 kg (187 lb; 13 st 5 lb)^[1]

Rugby union career

Matías Moroni (born 29 March 1991) is an Argentine professional rugby union player who plays as a centre for Premiership Rugby club Newcastle Falcons and the Argentina national team.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Club career[edit]

Moroni played his youth in Los Molinos and the Club Universitario de Buenos Aires.

In 2016, Moroni signed with the Jaguares, Argentina's Super Rugby team.

Moroni signed for Leicester TigersinPremiership Rugby for the 2020–21 Premiership Rugby season.^[5] He settled in quickly playing 10 of 13 games and making a positive impression, he scored his first try for Leicester against Connacht in a European Rugby Challenge Cup round of 16 game.^[6]

Moroni was recognised as a defensive lynchpin for Leicester, starting the 2022 Premiership Rugby final which Leicester won 15-12.^[7]

He was then announced as a new signing for Newcastle Falcons on 22 June 2022.^[8]

Moroni was a member of the Argentina Under-20 side which competed in the 2011 IRB Junior World Championship, he also represented the Pumas sevens team in 13 competitions during 2012 and 2013 and was selected by the Pampas XV for their 2014 tour of Oceania.^{[citation needed]}

Moroni made his senior debut for Los Pumas on 20 June 2014 against ScotlandinCórdoba.^[9] He wasn't selected by the Pumas for the 2014 Rugby Championship, however he did make the squad for the 2014 end-of-year rugby union internationals and he earned his second cap in a 20-18 win over ItalyinGenoa.^[10]

^ ^a ^b "Matías Moroni player profile". rugbyworldcup.com. Retrieved 21 October 2023.

^ "Matías Moroni ESPN Scrum Player Profile". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 1 December 2014.

^ "Matías Moroni itsrugby.co.uk Player Statistics". itsrugby.co.uk. Retrieved 1 December 2014.

^ "Tigers confirm Moroni to call Leicester home". leicestertigers.com. Retrieved 20 July 2020.

^ "Argentina vs Scotland 20 June 2014". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 1 December 2014.

^ "Italy vs Argentina 14 November 2014". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 1 December 2014.

^ "MORONI Matias". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2016.

^ "Argentina Rugby Sevens Squad for Rio 2016 Olympics". rio2016olympicsonline.com. 2016. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2016.