David Penalva

David Penalva

Birth name	David Penalva
Date of birth	(1980-01-26) 26 January 1980
Place of birth	France
Height	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	100 kg (220 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Lock Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) – 2002 – 2005 2005 – 2006 2006 2006 – 2008 2008 – 2010 2010 – Biarritz Tours Poitiers Belenenses Blagnac Auch Nice 48 37 5 (15) (0) (0) International career Years Team Apps (Points) 2002–2012 Portugal 35 (5)

David Penalva (born 26 January 1980 in France) is a Portuguese rugby union footballer. He plays as a lock.

Penalva played for Nice, in the French Fédérale 1, for the 2010–11 season.

He had 35 caps for Portugal, from 2002 to 2012, scoring 1 try, 5 points on aggregate. Penalva made his debut for the national side on 3 March 2002, in a 13–10 win over Spain, in Caldas da Rainha for the Six Nations B. He was called for the 2007 Rugby World Cup, playing in all the four games and scoring a try in the third game against Italy in a 31–5 loss. That would be the single points of his international career. Penalva most recent game was at 10 March 2012, in a 23–17 win over Spain, in Coimbra, for the Six Nations B. He has been absent from the National Team since then.

External links

• David Penalva at ESPNscrum