Nuno Sousa Guedes
Date of birth | 21 November 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nuno Maria Ramos Pinto Sousa Guedes (born Porto, 21 November 1994) is a Portuguese rugby union player. He plays as a fullback.
Club career
[edit]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 Grupo Desportivo Direito, where he would play for four seasons, from 2014/15 to 2017/18, winning twice the Campeonato Português de Rugby, in 2014/15 and 2015/16, and the Portuguese Rugby Cup in 2015/16. He also won the Copa Ibérica de Rugby in 2015. He stayed at Northern Suburbs Rugby Club, in Sydney, 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.[1]
International career
[edit]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.[2] He won with the national team the 2017–18 Rugby Europe Trophy.[3]
Guedes competed for Portugal at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ (Mais) 4 novos reforços da Divisão de Honra e CN1 que temos de ver, Fairplay.pt, 30 September 2019 (Portuguese)
- ^ Nuno Sousa Guedes International Statistics
- ^ Polónia 25-27 Portugal: Triunfo garante a conquista do Rugby Europe Trophy, Bola na Rede, 26 March 2018 (Portuguese)
- ^ "Country Summary: Portugal - Rugby World Cup Sevens South Africa 2022". www.rwcsevens.com. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
- 1994 births
- Living people
- Portuguese rugby union players
- Portugal international rugby union players
- Grupo Desportivo Direito players
- Rugby union fullbacks
- Lusitanos XV players
- Sportspeople from Porto
- 2023 Rugby World Cup players
- Northern Suburbs Rugby Club players
- Portuguese sportspeople stubs
- European rugby union biography stubs