Full name | Salvador Lues Soto | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 6 November 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Lima, Peru | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 118 kg (260 lb; 18 st 8 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Salvador Lues Soto (born 6 November 1999) is a professional rugby union player who plays as a prop for Super Rugby Americas club Selknam. Born in Lima, he represents Chile at international level after qualifying on residency grounds. [1]
Born in Lima, Lues grew up in Santiago, where he played his rugby with the Craighouse Old Boys, [2] [3] before enjoying a spell in the Stade Toulousain academy from 2018 to 2020. [4] [5]
Back in Chile, he played with Selknam in the newly founded Súper Liga Americana de Rugby. [3]
Salvador Lues was part of the Chilean team that qualified for their first Rugby World Cup in 2022, upsetting the odds against Canada and the United States, starting as a prop in the last game of the Americas qualification against the latter, an historic away win that sealed their qualification for the 2023 World Cup. [6]
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