Birth name | Vasile Ghioc | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 28 February 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Bucharest, Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 176 lb (80 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Vasile Ghioc (born 28 February 1978 in Bucharest) is a former Romanian rugby union player. He played as a wing. [1]
During his career, Ghioc played mostly for Dinamo București in Romania and for București Wolves a Romanian professional rugby union team based in Bucharest and competed with both teams in the European Rugby Challenge Cup competition. In 2003 he moved to English-based club Launceston only to return to Dinamo a short period of time after his stint in English rugby. [2]
Ghioc gathered 22 caps for Romania, from his debut in 2000 against Italy to his last game in 2008 against Portugal. He was a member of his national side for the 6th Rugby World Cup in 2003, where he played a single match in Pool A against Argentina.
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