Birth name | David Penalva | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | [1] | 26 January 1980||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | France [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 100 kg (220 lb) [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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David Penalva (born 26 January 1980 in France) is a Portuguese rugby union footballer. He plays as a lock.
Penalva played for Nice, in the French Fédérale 1, for the 2010–11 season.
He had 35 caps for Portugal, from 2002 to 2012, scoring 1 try, 5 points on aggregate. Penalva made his debut for the national side on 3 March 2002, in a 13–10 win over Spain, in Caldas da Rainha for the Six Nations B. He was called for the 2007 Rugby World Cup, playing in all the four games and scoring a try in the third game against Italy in a 31–5 loss. That would be the single points of his international career. Penalva most recent game was at 10 March 2012, in a 23–17 win over Spain, in Coimbra, for the Six Nations B. He has been absent from the National Team since then. [6]
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