Ruben Spachuck

Ruben Spachuk

Birth name	Cristian Ruben Spachuk
Date of birth	(1981-02-14) 14 February 1981
Place of birth	Argentina
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	114 kg (251 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Prop Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) – 2007 2007 – 2008 2008 – 2009 2009 – 2011 2011 – 2017 CF Os Belenenses Blagnac SCR FC Auch Gers US Colomiers CS Bourgoin-Jallieu – 22 13 31 110 (0) (0) (0) (0) Correct as of 6 July 2020 International career Years Team Apps (Points) 2005–2014 Portugal 47 (10) 2t Correct as of 20 June 2013

Cristian Ruben Spachuck, commonly known as Ruben Spachuck (born 14 February 1981), is an Argentine-born Portuguese rugby union footballer. He played as a prop.

He was one of the four Belenenses players at the 2007 Rugby World Cup finals. He moved to the French team of Blagnac after the tournament, where he played in 2007/08. He also would play for FC Auch Gers, in 2008/09, US Colomiers, from 2009/10 to 2010/11, and CS Bourgoin-Jallieu, where he played from 2011/12 to 2016/17, when he finished his career.

He had 47 caps for Portugal, from 2005 to 2014, with 2 tries scored, 10 points on aggregate. Spachuck's first game for Portugal came on 5 February 2005, against Georgia, in an 18–14 win. He played in all the four games of Portugal at the 2007 Rugby World Cup, without scoring. He had his last game on 8 March 2014, in a 34–18 defeat to Russia, in Sochi, aged 33 years old, in a 2015 Rugby World Cup qualifier.

International Statistics

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