Manolo Moriche

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Manolo Moriche
Birth nameManuel Moriche Mostajo
Date of birth (1950-08-06) 6 August 1950 (age 70)
Place of birth Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
Occupation(s)Sports commentator
Rugby union career
Position(s) Fly-half
Senior career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1968–1973
1974–1978
1974
1978–1980
1980–1983
CR El Salvador
CD Arquitectura
Veterinaria Zaragoza
Futbol Club Barcelona
CD Arquitectura
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National team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1970–1983Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 59 [1] (33)

Manuel Moriche Mostajo (born in Zaragoza, 6 August 1950), is a Spanish former rugby union player and currently, commentator.

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He had 59 caps for the Spain national team between 1970 and 1983. [2] He played as fly-half and was considered the best Spanish rugby union player of the 1970s.

Career

He grew up in Valladolid and was educated at Colegio El Salvador by the French priest George Bernès, who introduced rugby in the city in the 1960s. With the El Salvador club he played three sesasons Liga Nacional achieving ending runner-up twice and earning a third place.Due to the college direction board not renovating his sports license, Moriche moved to Madrid to play for Club Deportivo Arquitectura, [3] with which he won 5 league titles and two Copa del Rey titles. In 1974 he played temporarily for Veterinaria Zaragoza [4] in the second division, due to his conscription. In 1978 he left Madrid to play two seasons for Futbol Club Barcelona, returning to Arquitectura in 1980. [5] He was the brains of the best team of the national panorama and of the national team during these years, and at the time of his retirement, he was the most capped Spanish player of the history.[ citation needed ]

Currently, Manolo Moriche is most known for his journalistic work he practices since the 1990s commentating rugby union matches for Canal+ and Movistar+. [6]

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References

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  2. "Manuel Moriche Mostajo | Rugby Union | Players and Officials". ESPN scrum. Retrieved 2021-07-30.
  3. "Cuadro de honor". Arquitectura Rugby | Rugby amateur y universitario desde 1931 (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-07-30.
  4. Aragón, Heraldo de. "50 años de historia de rugby universitario". heraldo.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-07-30.
  5. "80 años de historia | Arquitectura Rugby". web.archive.org. 2016-10-13. Retrieved 2021-07-30.
  6. cope.es (2015-07-21). "La voz del rugby en TV, Manolo Moriche, en el Tercer Tiempo". COPE (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-07-30.