Duarte Daun e Lorena Cardoso Pinto (born 17 March 1982 in Lisbon) is a Portugueserugby union footballer. He plays as a fly-half.
Before moving to France, he played for Agronomia in Portugal, where he won the National Championship title in 2006–2007. He played for Blagnac in the French Second Division, in 2007/08.
He had 45 caps for the Portugal national team, from 2003 to 2010, and scored a total of 107 points (2 tries, 17 conversions and 21 penalties). He was a member of the Portugal squad that went to the 2007 Rugby World Cup. He played in all four games, being the top scorer for his country, with 2 conversions and 3 penalties, 12 points in aggregate.
Portugal competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.
The Portugal national rugby union team, nicknamed Os Lobos, represents Portugal in men's international rugby union competitions. The team, as well as all rugby union in Portugal, is administered by the Federação Portuguesa de Rugby.
Portugal competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England. A delegation of forty eight competitors participated in eight sports, with an equestrian and sailing teams winning both a bronze and Portugal's first Olympic silver medal, respectively. This was also the first Olympics where this nation won more than one medal.
The Apito Dourado affair is a sports corruption scandal in Portuguese football that first arose in 2004. Portuguese Judiciary Police investigators named several football personalities as suspects (arguidos) of corrupting or attempting to corrupt referees, including Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, chairman of FC Porto, and the former Boavista F.C. chairman and Portuguese League for Professional Football President Valentim Loureiro. Although less notorious, a major part of the affair involved lower division referees and clubs, namely UD Sousense and Gondomar S.C., and club officials.
David Bortolussi is a French-born Italian rugby union footballer. He usually plays at full back or on the wing.
Rugby union in Portugal is a very prevalent sport, though still a long distance from association football. The sport is essentially amateur in Portugal, with some professionalisation in its top flight league and the national rugby union team. The rugby union teams in Portugal are mostly university sides, from Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra, with multi-sport clubs like Benfica and Belenenses having rugby union collectivities.
Jonathan Jeremiah Sexton is an Irish former professional rugby union player who played as a fly-half and captained the Ireland national team from 2019 until 2023. He also played club rugby for Leinster and Racing 92.
Portugal has appeared at the Rugby World Cup twice, in 2007 and 2023.
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