Joaquín Díaz Bonilla (born 12 April 1989) is an

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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. His position is fly-half and plays for

Old Glory DC Old Glory DC RFC is an American professional rugby union team based in the Washington metropolitan area that competes in Major League Rugby (MLR). Old Glory was founded in 2018, played some exhibition games in 2019, and began regular-season MLR pl ...

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(MLR) in the U.S. He was part of the national Argentina team, '' The Pumas''. Bonilla played domestically in Argentina for

Hindú Club Hindú Club is an Argentina, Argentine sports club based in the Don Torcuato district of Tigre Partido. The institution is mostly known for its rugby union team, which currently competes in the Torneo de la URBA, Top 12, the first division of the U ...

in the

Torneo de la URBA The URBA Top 12 (formerly "Torneo de la URBA")Super Rugby Super Rugby is a men's professional rugby union club competition involving teams from Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. It has previously included teams from Argentina, Japan, and South Africa. Super Rugby started as the S ...

side Jaguares, both sides play in

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...

. Diaz Bonilla started at fly half for Jaguares in the 2019 Super Rugby Final, where they lost to New Zealand's

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. During the

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Diaz Bonilla played for

Racing 92 Racing 92 () is a French professional rugby union club based in the Hauts-de-Seine department, Paris' western inner Banlieue, suburbs that competes in Top 14. The club plays its home matches at the 30,681-capacity Stadium#Types, domed stadium Pa ...

in France's

Top 14 The Top 14 () is a professional rugby union club competition that is played in France. Created in 1892, the Top 14 is at the top of the national league system operated by the National Rugby League (France), France National Rugby League, also ...

as cover for

Finn Russell Finn Alastair Russell (born 23 September 1992) is a Scottish professional rugby union player who plays as a Fly-half (rugby union), fly-half for Premiership Rugby club Bath Rugby, Bath and Captain (sports), captains the Scotland national rugby ...

and

Ben Volavola Ben Volavola (born 13 January 1991) is a Fijian Australian international rugby union player. He most recently played for Leicester Tigers in England's Premiership Rugby. He has previously played for Agen in the French Pro D2 competition; for ...

. Bonilla returned to the Jaguares for the aborted

2020 Super Rugby season The 2020 Super Rugby season was the 25th season of Super Rugby, the international men's rugby union competition organised by SANZAAR involving teams from Argentina, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Africa. It was the third tournament in i ...

, featuring in 3 games before the season was cut short due to coronavirus. On 21 September 2020 he signed for

Leicester Tigers Leicester Tigers (officially Leicester Football Club) are a professional rugby union club based in Leicester, England. They play in Premiership Rugby, England's top division of rugby. The club was founded in 1880 and since 1892 plays its home ...

in England's

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, he made his debut as a replacement against

London Irish London Irish RFC is a professional rugby union club that most recently competed in the Premiership Rugby, Premiership, the top division of rugby union in England. The club also participated in the European Rugby Champions Cup, European Champion ...

but played only five times before his release was announced on 16 June 2021. On 15 August 2021 Bonilla joined , based in Durban, South Africa, for their debut

United Rugby Championship The United Rugby Championship (URC) is an annual rugby union competition involving professional teams from Ireland, Italy, Scotland, South Africa, and Wales. For sponsorship reasons the league is known as the Vodacom United Rugby Championship in ...

season.

References

External links

Jaguares Profile

Jaguares (Super Rugby) players 21st-century Argentine sportsmen Rugby union fly-halves Argentine rugby union players 1989 births Living people Hindú Club players Argentina international rugby union players Leicester Tigers players Racing 92 players Sharks (rugby union) players Sharks (Currie Cup) players Rugby union players from Buenos Aires Old Glory DC players Argentine expatriate rugby union players in France Argentine expatriate rugby union players in England Argentine expatriate rugby union players in the United States {{Argentina-rugbyunion-bio-stub