Luís Eduardo Pissarra (born 5 October 1975) is a Portuguese former

rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...

player of Argentine descent. He played as a scrum-half for

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, with whom he won the Campeonato Nacional Honra/Super Bock in 2006–07. Pissarra has 73 caps for the Portugal national team, from 1996 to 2007. He was the vice-captain of the Portugal squad at the

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, where he played in all four games. He left the national team after the 8–23 loss to

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, on 1 December 2007, aged 32, in a match where he was the captain. He never scored during his international career. He is currently one of the national team's assistant coaches.

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* 1975 births Living people Portugal international rugby union players Portuguese people of Argentine descent Portuguese rugby union players Rugby union players from Lisbon Rugby union scrum-halves 2007 Rugby World Cup players {{portugal-rugbyunion-bio-stub