Pablo Adrian Lemoine (born 1 March 1975 in

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) is a former Uruguayan

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player and former head coach of the Uruguayan national rugby team and German national team. He is now the head coach of the Chile national team.

Playing career

Club career

Lemoine first started playing rugby at the age of 11, and two years later he trained with the Montevideo Cricket Club, working his way through the age grade teams - along the way he won the junior National Championship in 1989, 1990, 1992 and 1994. He made his debut with the senior side in 1995, during the Campeonato Uruguayo de Rugby, against Club Champagnat. He was noticed in his own country, then moved to

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ahead of the 1998–1999 Allied Dunbar Premiership Two season, where he became the first ever Uruguayan professional rugby player. He helped the team gain promotion to the highest level in English domestic rugby for the 1999–2000 English Premiership, where Bristol finished sixth in the table. They additionally finished top of their pool in the European Challenge Cup, making it to the semi-final only to lose to Pau 51–27. He moved to

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for the 2000–01 French Rugby Union Championship, where his side progressed to the quarter-finals in his debut season. His side also made it to the

2001 Heineken Cup Final The 2001 Heineken Cup Final was the final match of the 2000–01 Heineken Cup, the sixth season of Europe's top club rugby union competition. The match was played on 19 May 2001 at the Parc des Princes in Paris. The match was contested by Stade Fra ...

, though they lost to

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34–30. His side struggled in the 2001–02, only making it as far as the second round in the Top 16, and getting knocked out in the Quarter-finals during the

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. However, Stade Français managed to achieve the Top 16 title in 2003. They retained their title in 2004, and came second in 2005. They also reached the

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, only to lose to

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18–12 in Extra time. Haven been injured midway through the 2005–06 season, Lemoine was released from his contract and moved to

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. Haven finished seventh in consecutive seasons with Montauban, Pablo moved to

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in the

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, before returning home to Uruguay in 2010, playing with Montevideo Cricket Club, before retiring in 2012.

International career

Haven played for Uruguay at age grade level between 1991 and 1996, of which he captained the U–19's side in the

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in 1993 and 1994, Lemoine made his debut for the senior

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side on 2 September 1995 against

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, winning 47–10. He went on to play a further 13 times, before scoring his first international test try, against

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. He was selected for the

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, where he started in all three games for the Teros. He featured again in a Rugby World Cup, where again he played in all games that Uruguay played in during the 2003 tournament. Lemoine was the first Uruguayan to score a try in a Rugby World Cup match, scoring in the 60–13 defeat to

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on 15 October 2003. His last game was on 27 November 2010 against

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in the 2011 RWC final place play-off match, where they failed to qualify for the

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. He has 48 caps, with 4 tries scored, 20 points on aggregate.

International Tries

Honours

* Allied Dunbar Premiership Two **Winners:

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* French Rugby Championship/Top 16 **Winners:

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2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

**Runners-up:

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Heineken Cup The European Rugby Champions Cup (known as the Heineken Champions Cup for sponsorship reasons) is an annual rugby union tournament organised by European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR). It is the top-tier competition for clubs who compete in a pre ...

**Runners-up:

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

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**Winners: 1999

*Challenge of l'Espérance **Winners: 2010

Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...

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**Runners-up:

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

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Coaching career

Uruguay

After retiring from rugby in early 2012, Lemoine took up coaching, where he began coaching the Montevideo Cricket Club U–19's side. Though this was a short stint, as he was later named head coach of the Uruguayan national side on a 4-year contract, with the aim of qualifying for the

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. He first match in charge came against

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during the 2012 South American Rugby Championship "A", where Argentina won 40–5. Uruguay went on to beat

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 ...

and

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to claim second place. In June 2012, Uruguay competed in the

2012 IRB Nations Cup The 2012 IRB Nations Cup was the seventh edition of the international rugby union tournament, a competition created by the International Rugby Board. It pitted the "A" Teams of the stronger rugby nations (Tier 1, Argentina Jaguars and Italy A) ...

, where Uruguay finished fourth behind hosts Romania, Argentina Jaguars and Italy A. The 2013 South American Rugby Championship "A" started Uruguay's qualification progress for the 2015 Rugby World Cup, which kept alive haven finished second to advance to the NACRA-CONSUR playoff final, against the

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. The opening leg of the play-offs saw Uruguay draw 27–27 in

, but lost 32–13 in the return fixture in

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, which sent Lemoine's men to the repechage qualification. During the 2014 South American Rugby Championship "A", Uruguay claimed their first Championship in 33 years, haven beaten

Paraguay Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...

34–10, Brazil 34–9 and Chile 55–13. On 2 August 2014, Uruguay beat

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28–3, to set up a home and away series against

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to claim the final sport in

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. Haven lost 22–21 in

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, Uruguay needed to beat Russia by 2 points or more to qualify, and on 11 October, Uruguay beat Russia 36–27 to qualify for the World Cup. However, the matches leading up to the World Cup, saw Uruguay claim just three wins from 13 games, though one of those wins was a first ever victory over Argentina, winning 30–26 - though it was an Argentina XV side that was fielded. They lost to back to back matches to Japan in August 2015, the first test being a first ever loss to the Japanese, 30–8. Uruguay failed to claim a win during the

, losing all their matches in their group; 54–9 to Wales, 65–3 to Australia, 47–15 to Fiji and 60–3 to England. Though, Uruguay did pick up their first World Cup try in 12 years, when Carlos Arboleya scored a try against Fiji on 6 October 2015. On 1 December 2015, it was announced that Lemoine had stepped down as Uruguayan head coach, and became the new Director of High Performance for the

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, whilst leading the High Performance Center at

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. Lemoine left his role with the URU in early 2018 following his appointment as the German national team head coach.

Germany

On 8 January 2018, Pablo Lemoine was announced as the new head coach of

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after Kobus Potgieter stood down at the end of 2017. Vuyo Zangqa went back to coaching the German VIIs team, after he acted as caretaker coach in Germany's defeat to

on 25 November 2017. Lemoine's high profile recruitment by the

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was part of the apex of a larger controversy, the "Rugbystreit" ( The "Rugbystreit" in German Rugby.) Lemoine led Germany into the

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, needing at least three victories to put them within a chance of World Cup qualification. However, with 5 defeats, including the four defeats that goes towards qualification, Germany found themselves at the bottom of the 2018 Rugby Europe Championship table and bottom of the aggregate 2017/2018 Championship table that acted as World Cup qualification. However, following an investigation into the European teams using ineligible players,

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and

were deducted points which saw Germany by default finish second and advance to the final round of the European qualification stage. In that round, Germany narrowly defeated

16–13, to advance to the Europe/Oceania play-off series against

. In the first leg, Samoa convincingly beat Germany 66–15 in

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. The return leg, saw Samoa complete a series win with a 42–28 win in

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, despite the fact that Germany led 28–21 leading into the final 10 minutes, but conceded three tries in the closing minutes of the game. In August 2018, it was announced that the

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Honours

Uruguay *

**Winners:

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**Runners-up:

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*CONSUR Cup **Runners-up:

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**Third:

References

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