Francisco Leonelli is an Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 rugby union

Rugby union

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 footballer, currently playing for Saracens F.C.

Saracens F.C.

Saracens are a professional rugby union team based in St. Albans, England – although they play their home games at Vicarage Road, in Watford. They are currently members of the Aviva Premiership, the top level of domestic rugby union in England...

 in the Guinness Premiership

Guinness Premiership

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. He has represented the Argentina national team

Argentina national rugby union team

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, having previously playing for the under-19s and under-21s Argentina sides. His usual position is at fullback though he also plays on the wing.

He played for Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 during their two Test series win over Wales

Wales national rugby union team

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 at home in June 2006, including scoring a try

Try

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 in the 27 to 25 victory. Before playing for the Warriors he played for fellow Scottish club Edinburgh. Leonelli joined Saracens on 2 August 2007.

In his first season for Saracens, Leonelli was part of the side that reached the semi-finals of the EDF Energy Cup

EDF Energy Cup

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 and the Heineken Cup

Heineken Cup

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 for the first time in the club's history. He scored the team's try in their famous 19-10 win over the Ospreys in the quarter-final of the Heineken Cup

Heineken Cup

The Heineken Cup is one of two annual rugby union competitions organised by European Rugby Cup involving leading club, regional and provincial teams from the six International Rugby Board countries in Europe whose national teams compete in the Six Nations Championship: England, France, Ireland,...

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After being released by Saracens he has moved back to Argentina to play for La Tablada.

External links

• Saracens profile
• Francisco Leonelli on glasgowwarriors.com
• Francisco Leonelli on ercrugby.com