Enrique 'Kike' Pieretto Heiland (born 15 December 1994) is an

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rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...

player who plays for the national Argentina team ''

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'' and Australian side

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. He previously played for Scottish

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side

Glasgow Warriors Glasgow Warriors are a professional rugby union side from Scotland. The team plays in the United Rugby Championship league and in the European Professional Club Rugby tournaments. In the 2014–15 season they won the Pro12 title and became t ...

Career

Professional career

He was part of the training group contingent at the Jaguares in the

2016 Super Rugby season The 2016 Super Rugby season was the 21st season of Super Rugby and the first season featuring an expanded 18-team format. It was also the first season that teams outside Australia, New Zealand and South Africa featured, with the Jaguares from Ar ...

, but despite this made 8 appearances for the Super Rugby side. Pieretto suffered an

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prior to the

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that ruled him out of action for 6 to 7 months. Pieretto joined English club

Exeter Chiefs Exeter Chiefs (officially Exeter Rugby Club) is an England, English professional rugby union club based in Exeter, Devon. They play in Premiership Rugby, England's top division of rugby. The club was founded in 1871 and since 2006 has played i ...

in November 2019 for the remainder of the 2019–20 season, and joined Scottish

club

on a two-year contract from the 2020–21 season. He became Glasgow Warrior No. 313 on his debut on 28 August 2020 against Edinburgh at Murrayfield Stadium. He won the Most Improved Player award in the season 2020-21. He joined

on loan in May 2024.

International career

Having played rugby from a young age, Pieretto was selected for the Argentina under-19's team in 2013 to face neighbouring sides Uruguay U19, Chile U19 and Brazil U19. Enrique played in all 3 matches, scoring a try against Brazil on 21 September. In 2014, he was selected for the Pumitas for the

2014 IRB Junior World Championship The 2014 IRB Junior World Championship was the seventh annual international rugby union competition for Under 20 national teams. The event was organised in Auckland, New Zealand by rugby's governing body, World Rugby, then known as the Internation ...

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. He played in the 'big games' against

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and

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, but the team failed to win either game. He started in the Semifinals of the 9–12th place play-offs against

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, but did not make an appearance in the 9th place game against

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. In January 2016, Pieretto was called up to the senior side for the

2016 Americas Rugby Championship The 2016 Americas Rugby Championship was the first series of the Americas Rugby Championship (sometimes informally called the "Americas Six Nations", a reference to Europe's Six Nations Championship), a new annual western hemisphere rugby union c ...

, where he made an appearance in 4 of the uncapped games. He made his international debut for the Pumas on 4 June 2016, starting against

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

in the

2016 Sudamérica Rugby Cup The 2016 Sudamérica Rugby Cup was the third edition of the Sudamérica Rugby Cup, and its first with the current name, since CONSUR had re-branded itself as Sudamérica Rugby in July 2015. Argentina were automatically seeded and qualified for th ...

. He was called up to the senior squad for their 2-test series against

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and a test against

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, coming off the bench against Italy and in the second test against France. He was later called up for the

2016 Rugby Championship The 2016 Rugby Championship was the fifth edition of the annual southern hemisphere Rugby Championship, featuring Argentina, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. The competition is operated by SANZAAR, a joint venture of the four countries' n ...

.Plantel de Los Pumas para el RCH 2016

References

External links

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Exeter Chiefs Profile
1994 births Living people Rugby union players from Córdoba, Argentina Argentine rugby union players Jaguares (Super Rugby) players Argentina international rugby union players Exeter Chiefs players Argentine expatriate rugby union players in England Rugby union props Glasgow Warriors players 2019 Rugby World Cup players New South Wales Waratahs players {{Argentina-rugbyunion-bio-stub