Salvador Lues
| Full name | Salvador Lues Soto | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 6 November 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Lima, Peru | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 118 kg (260 lb; 18 st 8 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Salvador Lues Soto (born 6 November 1999) is a professional rugby union player who plays as a prop for Super Rugby Americas club Selknam. Born in Lima, he represents Chile at international level after qualifying on residency grounds.[1]
Club career
[edit]Born in Lima, Lues grew up in Santiago, where he played his rugby with the Craighouse Old Boys,[2][3] before enjoying a spell in the Stade Toulousain academy from 2018 to 2020.[4][5]
Back in Chile, he played with Selknam in the newly founded Súper Liga Americana de Rugby.[3]
International career
[edit]Salvador Lues was part of the Chilean team that qualified for their first Rugby World Cup in 2022, upsetting the odds against Canada and the United States, starting as a prop in the last game of the Americas qualification against the latter, an historic away win that sealed their qualification for the 2023 World Cup.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Player profile". itsrugby.co.uk. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
- ^ Ramírez, Daniel (8 October 2021). "Selección chilena de Rugby tiene formación lista para enfrentar a Canadá". ADN (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 July 2022.
- ^ a b "Selknam finalize 40-man roster for SLAR". Americas Rugby News. 28 January 2021. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
- ^ "Toulouse ya suma dos chilenos". La Tercera (in Spanish). 29 December 2018. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
- ^ "Une pépinière de talents made in Chili". La Dépêche (in French). 10 May 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
- ^ Pengelly, Martin (16 July 2022). "Chile upset USA in Colorado to secure first ever Rugby World Cup place". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
External links
[edit]- Salvador Lues at ESPNscrum
- Salvador Lues at ItsRugby.co.uk
