 Carpo during a 2011 Rugby World Cup match | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 26 November 1984 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Tulcea, Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 106 kg (234 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Daniel Carpo (born 26 November 1984 in Tulcea) is a Romanian rugby union footballer. He plays as number eight.
Carpo played for RCJ Farul Constanța, from 2002/03 to 2010/11. Currently he is playing for Dinamo București, in the Romanian Rugby Championship. He was MVP for two years in a row, in 2010 and 2011.
Carpo has 54 caps for Romania, since 2007, with 9 tries scored, 45 points on aggregate. He had his first game at the 19-8 win over Italy A, at 10 June 2007, in Bucharest, for the IRB Nations Cup. He was called for the 2011 Rugby World Cup, playing in three games and scoring a try in the 34-24 loss to Scotland, and for the 2015 Rugby World Cup, where he played once again in three games but without scoring. [1]
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