Stelian Burcea
Birth name | Sandu Stelian Burcea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 7 October 1983 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Pitești, Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 225 lb (102 kg; 16.1 st) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sandu Stelian Burcea (born 7 October 1983) is a Romanian rugby union player. He plays as a lock, flanker and number eight.
Burcea is a player and the captain for RC Timişoara in the Romanian Rugby Championship. He won the National Championship titles in 2011/12 and 2012/13. He is also player and captain for București Wolves, a team made from the best players at the Romanian Rugby Championship that competes at the European Challenge Cup.
He has 44 caps for Romania, since 2006, with 4 tries scored, 20 points on aggregate. Burcea first cap came at the 14-62 loss to France, in Bucharest, in a friendly game, at 17 June 2006, when he was 22 years old. He was called for the 2011 Rugby World Cup, playing in two games but without scoring.[1] He played once again at the 2015 Rugby World Cup, being used in three games, but once again remaining scoreless.
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Stelian Burcea at ESPNscrum
- Stelian Burcea at ItsRugby.co.uk
- Sandu Stelian Burcea at European Professional Club Rugby
- Stelian Burcea at Romanian Rugby SuperLiga (in Romanian)
- 1983 births
- Living people
- Romanian rugby union players
- Romania international rugby union players
- SCM Rugby Timișoara players
- București Wolves players
- CSA Steaua București (rugby union) players
- Rugby union number eights
- Sportspeople from Pitești
- 2011 Rugby World Cup players
- 2015 Rugby World Cup players
- Romanian rugby union biography stubs