Valentin Popârlan

Valentin Popârlan plays lock, occasionally flanker, which means he lives in the grinding, unglamorous trenches of rugby. From Viziru in Brăila County, he has turned out for Timișoara and Bucharest's Wolves, and earned his first Romania cap off the bench against Namibia in 2007. I genuinely admire forwards in his mould: they win the ball nobody sees them win, and the match cannot function without them. Reaching the national Oaks from a country that is not a rugby superpower takes real grit. He is the sort of player who puts his body on the line week after week, and that kind of durability is its own quiet excellence.

Name (English)

Valentin Popârlan

Name (Japanese)

バレンティン・ポパルラン

Reading

ばれんてぃん・ぽぱるらん

Born

June 12, 1987 (age 39)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rabbit

Origin

Viziru, Brăila County, Romania

Occupation

rugby union player

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9D%E3%83%91%E3%83%AB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3

Tags

• Brăila County
• rugby union player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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