Eliseo Branca
Birth name | Eliseo Nicolás Branca | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | September 20, 1957 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Hurlingham, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Eliseo Nicolás Branca (born 20 September 1957 in Hurlingham) is an Argentine retired rugby union player. He played as a lock. After leaving his local club, his entire career has been with Club Atlético San Isidro CASI, where he was a player for 27 years, and then a coach.
Career
Hailing from
Branca debuted for
He won the 1985 and 1987 South American Rugby Championships, then, Branca took part with his country at the 1987 Rugby World Cup, where he played all the 3 pool stage matches against Fiji, Italy and New Zealand; he also won the 1989 South American Rugby Championship and in 1990, he ended his international career at Buenos Aires, with a win against England.
In 2000 he also ended his club career, after 27 years in the team;[2] he also won a Nacional de Clubes.
Moving to the coaching career, he led CASI to the conquest of the URBA tournament in 2005 at the end of a final won against the city rivals San Isidro;[3] due to disagreements with the management, he left the main team at the start of 2006 to then resume in the next season.[4] Later, besides coaching the youth team, he is also consultant, since 2009, for the Municipal Rugby School for San Isidro municipality.[5]
Notes
- ^ Branca, un símbolo
- ^ "Eliseo Branca". Archived from the original on 7 June 2009. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ Eliseo Branca vuelve a conducir al CASI, y Federico Méndez será coach en Mendoza,
- ^ Eliseo Branca vuelve a conducir al CASI, y Federico Méndez será coach en Mendoza,
- ^ Kick Off para la Escuela Municipal de Rugby[permanent dead link]
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