Nuno Maria Ramos Pinto Sousa Guedes (born Porto, 21 November 1994) is a Portuguese rugby union player. He plays as a fullback.

Club career

He first played for Associação Prazer de Jogar Rugby, in his hometown of Porto. He moved afterwards to CDUP, where he played from 2012/13 to 2013/14. He moved again to

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, where he would play for four seasons, from 2014/15 to 2017/18, winning twice the

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, in 2014/15 and 2015/16, and the

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in 2015/16. He also won the

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in 2015. He stayed at

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, in

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, in 2019, at the semi-professional Shute Shield, playing in 5 games and scoring 3 tries. He returned to CDUP, in 2019/20, where he has been playing since then.

International career

He has 24 caps for Portugal, since 2016, with 5 tries, 23 conversions and 11 penalties scored, 104 points on aggregate. He had his first cap at the 39–14 loss to Romania, at 6 February 2016, in Cluj, for the Six Nations B, aged 21 years old. He has been a regular player and one of the top scorers for the "Lobos" since then. He won with the national team the

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. Guedes competed for Portugal at the

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in Cape Town.

References

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