Aratz Gallastegui

Aratz Gallastegui

Date of birth	(1976-09-04) 4 September 1976 (age 48)
Place of birth	Berango, Basque Country, Spain
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Weight	160 lb (73 kg)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Scrum-half Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) 1986-2001 2001-2004 2004-2006 2006-2007 Getxo Artea RT[1] Saint-Jean-de-Luz[2] Gernika RT Getxo Artea RT () International career Years Team Apps (Points) 1997-1999  Spain 7 (0)

Aratz Gallastegui Sodupe (born 4 September 1976 in Berango) is a Spanish former rugby union player. He played as a scrum-half. In his home region, the Basque Country, his name is often spelled as Aratz Gallastegi.

Career

He debuted for the Spain national rugby union team in a test match against Andorra on 8 November 1997. Gallastegui also played two matches of the 1999 Rugby World Cup for Spain against South Africa and Scotland, the latter being his last international cap for Spain.^[3] At club level, he mainly played for Getxo Artea RT.^[4] After retiring as player, Gallastegui became coach of Durango RT in 2008.^[5][6] From 2014 he is the backs coach of Ordizia Rugby Elkartea.^[7]

References

1. ARATZ GALLASTEGI JUGADOR DE RUGBY "Jugar el Mundial ha sido un sueño de tres semanas", additional text.
2. "SAINT-JEAN-DE-LUZ OLYMPIQUE PAYS BASQUE - Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia". aunamendi.eusko-ikaskuntza.eus (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-11-19.
3. "Aratz Gallastegui Sodupe". ESPN scrum. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
4. "Entrevista | ARATZ GALLASTEGI JUGADOR DE RUGBY "Jugar el Mundial ha sido un sueño de tres semanas"". El País (in Spanish). 1999-10-24. ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
5. El Durango Ilarduya ficha a Aratz Gallastegi entrenador del primer equipo
6. "Aratz Gallastegi Sodupe - Director de Rugby y Gestor de Club - Durango Rugby Taldea | LinkedIn". LinkedIn. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
7. "Ordizi R.E. – Gernika R.T." Archived from the original on 2017-01-16. Retrieved 2017-01-13.

External links

• Aratz Gallastegui at ESPNscrum