Dănuț Dumbravă
![]() Dănuț Dumbravă as a head coach for Steaua in 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Birth name | Dănuț Marin Dumbravă | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 6 August 1981 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Bucharest, Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 79.5 kg (12.52 st; 175 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dănuț Marin "Dan" Dumbravă (born 6 August 1981 in Bucharest)[1] is a former Romanian rugby union footballer and current head coach of CSA Steaua București. He played as a fly-half and a fullback.[2]
Career
[edit]Dumbravă played for his entire career with Bucharest side CSA Steaua București in the Romanian Rugby Championship. He also played for București Wolves.
International
[edit]Dumbravă has 73 caps for Romania, with 3 tries, 73 conversions, 74 penalties and 2 drop goals scored, in an aggregate of 389 points. This makes him one of the top scorers for his country. His first match was at 1 November 2002, in a 40–3 loss to Wales, in Wrexham, in a friendly game. Dumbravă played three games at the 2003 Rugby World Cup finals, but was only capped once at the 2007 Rugby World Cup finals. Nevertheless, he scored a conversion in his country's 14–10 win over Portugal. He was called for the 2011 Rugby World Cup, playing in three games and scoring 5 penalties, 15 points on aggregate. He was called once again for the 2015 Rugby World Cup, playing in a single game, as a substitute, without scoring.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Dan Dumbrava player profile Scrum.com
- ^ www.agerpres.ro (10 July 2017). "Rugby: Dănuț Dumbravă, noul antrenor al CSA Steaua București".
External links
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- Dănuț Dumbravă at ESPNscrum
- Dănuț Dumbravă at ItsRugby.co.uk
- Dănuț Dumbravă at European Professional Club Rugby
- Dănuț Dumbravă at Romanian Rugby SuperLiga (in Romanian)
- Romanian rugby union players
- Romanian rugby union coaches
- Rugby union fly-halves
- Rugby union players from Bucharest
- 1981 births
- Living people
- Romania international rugby union players
- CSA Steaua București (rugby union) players
- București Wolves players
- 2011 Rugby World Cup players
- 2003 Rugby World Cup players
- 2007 Rugby World Cup players
- 2015 Rugby World Cup players
- Romanian rugby union biography stubs