Manolo Moriche

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Manolo Moriche
BornManuel Moriche Mostajo
(1950-08-06) 6 August 1950 (age 75)
Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
OccupationSports commentator
Rugby union career
Position Fly-half
Senior career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1968–1973 CR El Salvador
1974–1978 CD Arquitectura
1974 Veterinaria Zaragoza
1978–1980 Futbol Club Barcelona
1980–1983 CD Arquitectura
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1970–1983 Spain [1] 59 (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 seasons 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. [6]

Currently, Manolo Moriche is most known for his journalistic work he practices since the 1990s commentating rugby union matches for Canal+ and Movistar+. [7]

References

  1. ↑ "Diario AS – "El rugby debe ir al colegio"". Diario AS (in Spanish). 6 September 2006. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  2. ↑ "Manuel Moriche Mostajo | Rugby Union | Players and Officials". ESPN scrum. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  3. ↑ "Cuadro de honor". Arquitectura Rugby | Rugby amateur y universitario desde 1931 (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  4. ↑ Aragón, Heraldo de (25 October 2019). "50 años de historia de rugby universitario". heraldo.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  5. ↑ "80 años de historia | Arquitectura Rugby". 13 October 2016. Archived from the original on 13 October 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  6. ↑ https://ferugby.es/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/PARTE-4-MEDALLAS-Y-RECOMPENSAS.pdf.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ↑ cope.es (21 July 2015). "La voz del rugby en TV, Manolo Moriche, en el Tercer Tiempo". COPE (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 July 2021.
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