Saturday 13th November 2010 Uruguay KO: 15:30 Romania Charrúa Stadium, Montevideo Facts & Figures

Key facts URUGUAY FACTS AND FIGURES

• DAN DUMBRAVA needs two more penalty goals to reach 50 in test matches. • Uruguay need 39 points to reach 4,000 in test matches. • If comes off the replacements bench he will be making his 70th test appearance, making him the joint fourth highest capped player in 10 up Romanian history. • ALEJO CORRAL and MATIAS FONSECA will both make their 10th test match Team news appearance for Uruguay.

• Uruguay have made four changes to their starting line up from the side that Try harder beat Kazakhstan 44-7 to reach the play off with Romania. MARIO SAGRARIO comes in at prop, MATIAS FONSECA at second row, SANTIAGO VILASECA at • Ten of the Uruguay squad have played against Romania but none of them number eight and MATIAS AROCENA at fly half. have scored a try against them. The only points scored against Romania by • Only four players in the Uruguay starting line up played in the match against players in the Uruguay starting line up was a penalty by MATIAS AROCENA. Romania at the 2009 IRB Nations Cup. • Romania have made seven changes to their starting line up from the side that beat Tunisia to qualify for this play off in July. BOGDAN BALAN, MARIUS Points target TINCU and DRAGOS DIMA comes in to the front row, returns to captain the side at lock forward, OVIDIU TONITA plays at flanker, LUCIAN • MATIAS AROCENA is the fourth highest points scorer of all time for Uruguay SIRBU comes in at scrum half and MADALIN LEMNARU plays on the right with 145. He will move up to third if he scores 12 points this weekend above wing. Marcelo Nicola Horta. • Seven players in the Romanian starting line up also started the match • NICOLAS BRIGNONI has scored nine tries in 44 appearances for Uruguay. He against Uruguay at the 2009 IRB Nations Cup. Five more players who came will move up to joint fourth on the all time try scorer list for his country if he on as replacements that day are also on the bench this weekend. scores against Romania.

All to play for ROMANIA FACTS AND FIGURES

• The final place at the 2011 is up for grabs when Uruguay host Romania in Montevideo in the first leg of two qualifying play off Dan’s the man matches. The second leg takes place in two weeks time in Bucharest with the • DAN DUMBRAVA has kicked 56 conversions in test matches for his country, winners destined to join Argentina, England, Scotland and Georgia in Pool B which is an all time record for Romania. when the finals kick off in New Zealand in September 2011. • DUMBRAVA needs two more penalty goals to reach 50 in test matches and • Romania qualified for the play off by beating Tunisia 56-13 in July, whilst 26 more points to become the third player to reach 300 for his country after Uruguay despatched Kazakhstan 44-7. Petre Mitu and Ionut Tofan. • The two sides have only previously played each other twice in test matches, both times in the IRB Nations Cup in Bucharest. Romania won on each occasion, winning 10-6 in 2008 and 17-11 in 2009 when Uruguay finished Try scorers bottom of the six team tournament. • Number eight and full back both scored a try against Uruguay when Romania won 17-11 at the 2009 IRB The man in the middle Nations Cup in Bucharest.

• MARK LAWRENCE of South Africa will be in charge of this match, which 70 up will be the first time he has refereed a game involving either side. His most recent appointment was to New Zealand’s 23-22 win over Australia in the • If CRISTIAN PETRE comes off the replacements bench he will be making his final game of the 2010 Tri-Nations series and he was involved as a touch 70th test appearance, making him the joint fourth highest capped player in judge and television match official at the 2003 and Romanian history alongside Florica Murariu and seven behind Adrian Lungu finals. at the top of the list.

Performances this year Front row milestones

• Uruguay reached the semi finals of the South American Championships • The front row combination of BOGDAN BALAN, and DRAGOS earlier this year following victories over Brazil, Paraguay and the host nation, DIMA all reach personal milestones on Saturday, with the two props making Chile, before losing 38-0 to the eventual winners, Argentina. They then their 30th test appearance for Romania and Tincu playing in his 40th test competed in the Churchill Cup in the United States, losing all three matches match. to Canada, France A and Russia, who beat them 38-19 in the Bowl Final. • Two more players hit personal milestones for Romania this weekend, with • Romania won six and drew one of their Rugby World Cup qualifying matches right wing CATALIN FERCU making his 40th test appearance and centre in 2010 and finished third in the European Nations Cup behind Georgia and CSABA GAL playing in his 30th test match. FERCU needs two more tries to Russia. They competed in the IRB Nations Cup on home soil and finished reach 100 points for his country. second behind Namibia, who beat them 21-17 in their opening match of the tournament. Romania recovered from that setback to beat Argentina Jaguars and Italy A in their other two matches.

Rugby World Cup history

• Romania have competed in the final stages of all six Rugby World Cup tournaments, whilst Uruguay missed out in 2007 after qualifying for the previous two in 1999 and 2003. Uruguay won one match at each tournament, beating Spain and Georgia respectively. Romania have won five and lost 15 during the final stages and the only time they lost all three pool matches was in 1995 in South Africa when they finished bottom of a group including the host nation, Australia and Canada.

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URUGUAY Ivo IRB RANKING: 21 Dugonjic Test #: 183 Replacements 16 Juan Rombys () 14 13 12 11 17 Martín Espiga () Leandro Martin Juan Gaston 18 Pablo Lemoine () Leivas Crosa de Freitas Mieres 19 Juan Ignacio Tabarez () 20 Juan Manuel Gaminara () 21 Emiliano Caffera () 10 9 22 Nicolas Morales () Matias Manuel Arocena Martinez

Key Stats 8 Santiago # Caps Starting Lineup: 195 Avg Age Starting Lineup: 24 Vilaseca Oldest Player: Pablo Lemoine (35) Youngest Player: (20) 6 7 Avg Weight Forwards: 102 kg Mathias 5 4 Nicolás Braun Brignoni Diego Matías Magno Fonseca Officials 3 2 1 Referee: Carlos Mark Lawrence (South Africa) - 24 Tests Mario Arboleya Sarazola Alejo Sagrario (C) Corral Tests at Venue: 0 Tests Uruguay: 0 Tests Romania: 0 Tests Test Debut: 15/07/2000 - Fiji v Italy

1 2 3 Bogdan Marius Dragos Balan Tincu Dima

4 5 6 Sorin Valentin 7 Socol (C) Ursache Stelian Ovidiu Burcea Tonita 8 Replacements Alexandru 16 () Manta 17 Mihaita Lazar () 18 Andrei Radoi () 19 Cristian Petre () 9 10 20 Daniel Carpo () Lucian Dan 21 () Sirbu Dumbrava 22 Iulian Dumitras ()

11 12 13 14 Madalin Ionut Csaba Catalin Key Stats Lemnaru Dimofte Gal Fercu # Caps Starting Lineup: 552 Avg Age Starting Lineup: 28 Oldest Player: Lucian Sirbu (34) 15 Youngest Player: Madalin Lemnaru (21) Avg Weight Forwards: 112 kg Florin Vlaicu

ROMANIA IRB RANKING: 19 Test #: 357

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Recent Results Date Team A Result Team B Venue 12/06/2009 Uruguay 11 17 Romania Bucharest 11/06/2008 Uruguay 6 10 Romania Bucharest

Summary Uruguay 2 Matches (0 Draw) Romania 0 Won 2 17 Points 27 1 Tries 3 0 Conversions 3 4 Penalties 2 0 Drop Goals 0

Player Records For Uruguay against Romania For Romania against Uruguay 12 Players - 2 Appearances 2 - 7 Players Jeronimo Etcheverry - 6 Points 17 - Florin Vlaicu Juan Campomar - 1 Tries 1 - 3 Players - Conversions 3 - Florin Vlaicu Jeronimo Etcheverry - 2 Penalties 2 - Florin Vlaicu - Drop Goals -

Player Records in a Match For Uruguay against Romania For Romania against Uruguay Jeronimo Etcheverry on 12/06/2009 - 6 Points 12 - Florin Vlaicu on 12/06/2009 Juan Campomar on 12/06/2009 - 1 Tries 1 - On 3 Occasions - Conversions 2 - Florin Vlaicu on 12/06/2009 Jeronimo Etcheverry on 12/06/2009 - 2 Penalties 1 - On 2 Occasions - Drop Goals -

Team Records in a Match For Uruguay against Romania For Romania against Uruguay On 12/06/2009 - 11 Points 17 - On 12/06/2009 On 12/06/2009 - 1 Tries 2 - On 12/06/2009 - Conversions 2 - On 12/06/2009 On 2 Occasions - 2 Penalties 1 - On 2 Occasions - Drop Goals -

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Head Coach: Gonzalo Camardon Recent Matches Debut: 13/05/2010 v Brazil (W 26-10) Date Opponent Result Venue Winning Ratio: 66.67% Average Tries per Match: 3.33 17/07/2010 Kazakhstan W 44 7 Montevideo

19/06/2010 Russia L 19 38 Harrison Uruguay Record Under Gonzalo Camardon 05/06/2010 Canada L 6 48 Glendale 4 Wins 0 Drawn 2 Lost 21/05/2010 Argentina L 0 38 Santiago 159 For Points 136 Against 19/05/2010 Chile W 36 19 Santiago 20 For Tries 18 Against

10 For Conversions 14 Against Points For 105

12 For Penalties 6 Against Points Ag 150

1 For Drop Goals 0 Against Tries For 12

Tries Ag 19 Player Info For Uruguay

Caps as Caps v Player Pos Age Debut Caps Won Drawn Lost Points Tries Cons Pens DGs Sub Opponent Alejo Corral 1 29 14/11/2009 9 4 0 4 0 5 10 2 0 0 0 Sarazola (C) 2 25 30/10/2004 24 8 2 11 0 13 5 1 0 0 0 Mario Sagrario 3 24 22/07/2006 16 4 2 6 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 Matías Fonseca 4 22 08/11/2008 9 3 1 4 0 5 5 1 0 0 0 5 21 20/06/2008 8 2 0 5 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 Mathias Braun 6 23 13/05/2010 5 1 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 Nicolás Brignoni 7 34 04/06/1998 44 8 0 17 0 27 45 9 0 0 0 Santiago Vilaseca 8 31/05/2008 2 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 Manuel Martinez 9 25 02/06/2007 12 5 0 6 0 6 15 3 0 0 0 Matias Arocena 10 26 11/05/2005 20 2 1 9 0 11 145 6 20 25 0 Gaston Mieres 11 21 16/05/2010 6 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 Juan de Freitas 12 20 21/11/2009 7 2 0 3 0 4 12 1 2 1 0 Martin Crosa 13 24/03/2007 7 0 0 4 0 3 20 4 0 0 0 14 22 08/11/2008 10 3 1 3 0 7 30 6 0 0 0 Ivo Dugonjic 15 25 30/10/2004 16 2 1 8 0 8 34 2 3 6 0 Total 195 45 8 87 0 108 321 35 25 32 0 Juan Rombys 16 23 31/05/2008 15 11 2 8 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 Martín Espiga 17 25 12/11/2005 21 9 2 9 0 12 25 5 0 0 0 Pablo Lemoine 18 35 02/09/1995 46 5 0 19 0 27 20 4 0 0 0 Juan Ignacio Tabarez 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Juan Manuel Gaminara 20 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Emiliano Caffera 21 32 22/09/2000 34 9 1 15 0 19 72 0 12 15 1 Nicolas Morales 22 26 06/11/2004 19 8 2 6 0 13 15 1 2 2 0 Records For Uruguay Caps Tries Points 65 - Rodrigo Sanchez 30 - Diego Ormaechea 259 - Federico Sciarra 59 - Diego Aguirre 13 - Alfonso Cardoso 256 - Juan Menchaca 54 - Diego Ormaechea 13 - Federico Sciarra 156 - Marcelo Nicola Horta

Player Records (In a Match) Team Records (In a Match) Points: 31 - Matias Arocena v Chile on 02/05/2009 Points: 93 v Paraguay on 10/10/1998 Tries: 4 - 3 players Tries: 15 v Paraguay on 10/10/1998 Conversions: 8 - 2 players Conversions: 11 v Venezuela on 25/04/2004 Penalties: 6 - 6 players Penalties: 7 v Chile on 27/10/1977 Drop Goals: 4 - Juan Menchaca v Chile on 07/09/2002 Drop Goals: 4 v Chile on 07/09/2002

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Head Coach: Recent Matches Debut: 22/05/2010 v Ukraine (W 33-3) Date Opponent Result Venue Winning Ratio: 75.00% Average Tries per Match: 5.75 17/07/2010 Tunisia W 56 13 Buzau

Romania Record Under Romeo Gontineac 11/06/2010 Namibia L 17 21 Bucharest 3 Wins 0 Drawn 1 Lost 05/06/2010 Ukraine W 61 7 Botosani 167 For Points 44 Against 22/05/2010 Ukraine W 33 3 Kiev 23 For Tries 4 Against 27/03/2010 Spain W 48 3 Bucharest 17 For Conversions 3 Against Points For 215 6 For Penalties 6 Against Points Ag 47

0 For Drop Goals 0 Against Tries For 29

Tries Ag 4 Player Info For Romania

Caps as Caps v Player Pos Age Debut Caps Won Drawn Lost Points Tries Cons Pens DGs Sub Opponent Bogdan Balan 1 30 22/02/2003 29 17 0 15 1 13 10 2 0 0 0 Marius Tincu 2 32 03/02/2002 39 3 0 22 1 16 70 14 0 0 0 Dragos Dima 3 31 03/10/1999 29 8 0 18 0 11 10 2 0 0 0 Sorin Socol (C) 4 32 18/02/2001 53 4 1 32 1 20 40 8 0 0 0 5 24 26/06/2004 33 17 0 20 1 12 10 2 0 0 0 Stelian Burcea 6 27 17/06/2006 25 6 1 15 1 9 10 2 0 0 0 Ovidiu Tonita 7 30 06/02/2000 50 3 1 30 1 19 65 13 0 0 0 Alexandru Manta 8 33 19/04/1996 33 2 1 19 1 13 50 10 0 0 0 Lucian Sirbu 9 34 13/04/1996 64 13 1 34 1 29 50 10 0 0 0 Dan Dumbrava 10 29 01/11/2002 48 13 1 33 0 15 274 3 56 48 1 Madalin Lemnaru 11 21 07/02/2009 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 Ionut Dimofte 12 26 26/06/2004 46 7 2 28 1 17 66 11 1 3 0 Csaba Gal 13 25 26/11/2005 29 9 0 16 0 13 2 0 1 0 0 Catalin Fercu 14 24 19/11/2005 39 1 2 26 1 12 90 18 0 0 0 Florin Vlaicu 15 24 03/06/2006 33 10 2 20 1 12 178 4 40 24 2 Total 552 113 12 329 11 212 925 99 98 75 3 Cezar Popescu 16 33 04/10/1997 41 27 1 28 0 13 25 5 0 0 0 Mihaita Lazar 17 24 22/03/2008 8 6 1 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 Andrei Radoi 18 23 22/03/2008 7 5 0 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 Cristian Petre 19 31 17/11/2001 69 6 1 40 1 28 25 5 0 0 0 Daniel Carpo 20 25 10/06/2007 19 10 2 14 1 4 15 3 0 0 0 Valentin Calafeteanu 21 25 20/11/2004 30 17 1 18 1 11 93 5 13 13 1 Iulian Dumitras 22 28 03/03/2002 23 4 1 14 1 8 41 6 4 1 0

Records For Romania Caps Tries Points 77 - Adrian Lungu 33 - Petre Motrescu 335 - Petre Mitu 75 - Romeo Gontineac 28 - Gabriel Brezoianu 315 - Ionut Tofan 71 - Gabriel Brezoianu 27 - Florica Murariu 274 - Dan Dumbrava

Player Records (In a Match) Team Records (In a Match) Points: 30 - Ionut Tofan v Spain on 05/10/2002 Points: 100 v Bulgaria on 21/09/1976 Tries: 5 - 3 players Tries: 17 v Morocco on 17/11/1976 Conversions: 12 - Virgil Popisteanu v Portugal on 13/04/1996 Conversions: 12 v Portugal on 13/04/1996 Penalties: 6 - 2 players Penalties: 6 on 2 Occasions Drop Goals: 3 - 2 players Drop Goals: 4 v West Germany on 29/10/1967

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