Pedro Luis Sporleder (born 2 January 1971 in

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...

) is a former

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 ...

footballer and currently businessman from

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

. He played for the

Argentina national rugby union team The Argentina national rugby union team (Spanish: ''Selección de rugby de Argentina'') represents Argentina in men's international rugby union; it is organised by the Argentine Rugby Union ( es, Unión Argentina de Rugby). Nicknamed the Pumas ...

(Argentina) on 77 occasions, scoring 12 tries. He represented "Los Pumas" at a record four

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tournaments in

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1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

and

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. Sporleder played his club rugby for Curupaytí in

until 2007, year of his retirement. Apart from rugby, he runs a Big Real Estate Company in Punta del Este, Uruguay "X Group" ( www.pueblomio.com.uy )

References

External links

Scrum profile

1999 Rugby World Cup

Key player: Pedro Sporleder

Pedro Sporleder en Siuxy Sports
1971 births Living people Rugby union players from Buenos Aires Argentine rugby union players Rugby union locks Argentine people of German descent Argentine businesspeople Argentina international rugby union players {{argentina-rugbyunion-bio-stub