Jaime Nava

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Jaime Nava
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Birth nameJaime Nava de Olano
Date of birth (1983-05-01) 1 May 1983 (age 41)
Place of birth Madrid, Spain
Height1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight108 kg (238 lb; 17 st 0 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Centre
Senior career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
  • 2002–2003
  • 2003–2008
  • 2008–2009
  • 2009–2010
  • 2010–2011
  • 2011–2012
  • 2012–2014
  • 2014–2016
  • 2016–2017
  • 2017–2019
  • 2019–2022
  • 2022-2023
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International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2002–2018 Spain 79 (69)

Jaime Nava de Olano (born in Madrid, 1 May 1983) is a Spanish retired rugby union player. He was a Spanish rugby union (FER) and sevens international. In addition to being frequently called up for Spain, he was also captain; with 79 caps, he is the second player with most international caps for his country. [1] Currently he collaborates with FER as rugby ambassador for Spain. [2] Furthermore, in the later years he was known publicly after his stint on the RTVE cooking show MasterChef Celebrity [3] and for his role as secondary actor in the series La Unidad, aired by Movistar+. [4] In October 2020 he published his first book TEAM! Lecciones y valores del rugby para la vida (Diëresis). [5]

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First years

Formed in the feeder team of the defunct club Moraleja Alcobendas Rugby Unión, he competed in said club in the junior categories, until in the 2001–02 season he passed to the club's first-grade team, by the hand of the then-club coach Santiago Santos, who offered the chance to Nava to sign his first semi-professional contract which was considered as the first rugby professional project in Spain. It is also then that Nava made a change in his sports projection switching from his usual flanker position, under which he developed himself during his junior years, to the one of centre in the three-quarters line. In the same season, in 2002, after various apparitions with the first-grade team, which later would become league champion, and after his participation at the Under-19 World Cup in Treviso, he was called up to play for the Spain national team which faced the Netherlands in the latest round of the Rugby Europe International Championships. In the 2002–03 season, Moraleja Alcobendas Rugby Unión folded due to economic problems, passing the torch and the club's base to the current Club Alcobendas Rugby. Nava would make that club his home during other four seasons in the top-level Spanish rugby. At this stage Nava still formed himself as player and started his university studies in Sports' physical activities sciences at Facultad de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte.

Overseas experiences

During his last season for Alcobendas, 2007–08, Nava was invited to make a series of trials in England to join the rugby league team Wigan Warriors of Super League. It is during this Trials phase when Nava was invited to play for Waterloo R.F.C. in a test against Cambridge in the National Division 2 alongside fellow Spanish international Pablo Feijoo, both being starting players in this match. Finally and after this period Nava decided to decline an offer to form in rugby league for Wigan and keep his career in Spain. In that moment, he signed for Cetransa El Salvador, from Valladolid, then-league and cup champion. It was the 2008–09 season where the Valladolid side represented Spanish rugby at the Amlin Challenge Cup giving the team equipo a more worthy role in said competition. In August 2009, it was confirmed that Nava abandoned El Salvador to join Plymouth Albion RFC, where after convincing the coaching staff, he signed a contract of several years for the club. However, an injury did not allowed him to enjoy the desired minutes and in January 2010, Nava returned again to Madrid to end the season with his club Alcobendas and to bring it the much-desired promotion to División de Honor. In the 2010–11 Nava returned to Valladolid for a second phase for El Salvador where he would end with a cup title in a derby against the club's historical rival, VRAC. After the 2010–11 season, Nava went to France in the 2011–12 season to play for CA Saint-Étienne. After a year there, Nava joined Union Sportive Bressane, proclaiming himself champion of the champion of the Jean Prat Trophy at Stade de Gerland of Lyon against CSBJ on 6 June 2013. In the summer of 2014 Nava signed for CA Périgueux, in Federale 1. After his stint for Stade Dijonnais Côte D'Or in 2016, he returned to Club Alcobendas Rugby in 2017, where two years later, he retired from professional sports. Afterwards, he played for CR Alcalá at an amateur level and in the 2022-2023 season he signed for his first club, Alcobendas Rugby, where he retired at the end of the season.

International level

He was an international at under-19, disputing two Under-19 World Cups—in Chile 2001 and Italy 2002, and under-20 level. Nava debuted for Spain on 6 April 2002 at age 18 and since then he was most present in the national team, with 79 international caps. He was also a rugby sevens veteran, taking part in various European series and championships.

Honours

Trivia

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References

  1. ↑ González, Luis Javier (18 March 2018). "Jaime Nava: 'Cada uno de los que están aquí son 100% españoles'". El Paais (in Spanish). El País. ISSN   1134-6582 . Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  2. ↑ Ferugby19 (19 February 2020). "Patricia García y Jaime Nava, embajadores del rugby español". ferugby (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 June 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ "Jaime Nava en 'MasterChef Celebrity': de los fogones al flirteo con Boris Izaguirre". El Confidencial (in Spanish). 13 October 2018. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
  4. ↑ "Jaime Nava vuelve a las pantallas en la serie 'La Unidad'". AS.com (in Spanish). 14 May 2020. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
  5. ↑ "Team!: los valores del rugby como guía para la vida" (in Spanish). AS.com. 21 October 2020. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
  6. ↑ "Jaime Nava estará en la quinta temporada de 'La Casa de Papel'" (in Spanish). Marca.com. 6 November 2020. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
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