Rafael Madero


Rafael M. Madero is a former Argentinian rugby union player and coach. He played as a Fullback. Centre and Fly-half.

Career

Starting his career in the SIC, Madero played for the team until 1990; as a wing, centre, and rarely as fly-half, he won eight URBA titles from 1977 to 1988.
Internationally capped for Argentina since 1978, he took part to some significant moments of the Pumas in the late 1970s and most of the 1980s: in 1979, at Buenos Aires, during the match against Australia, he scored 8 points of the total 24 with which Argentina won. He won the 1987 South American Rugby Championship and in the same year, took part at the first Rugby World Cup: he played his last match in 1990; there were 34 test matches played, with 33 points.
Moving to the coaching, in 2000, Madero was in charge of coaching Argentina A, where he was in charge until 2006, when he won the Nations Cup before resigning and coaching San Isidro Club, which he led to the victory in the Nacional de Clubes in 2006 and in 2008.