Pedro Miguel da Cunha Leal (born 28 April 1984, in

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) is a

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international

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player and a regular on the World Rugby

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circuit. He plays as a fullback or a scrum-half. He is widely considered Portugal's best player in rugby sevens, and in the 2006/07 IRB Sevens World Series he scored 20 tries from eight tournament appearances. He was the top scorer at the

2008 Hannover Sevens The 2008 European Sevens Championship was a rugby sevens competition, with the final held in Hanover, Germany. It was the seventh edition of the European Sevens championship and also functioned as a qualifying tournament for the 2009 Rugby World C ...

event, with 74 points. Leal is one of only nine players to have scored more than 1,000 points in the World Rugby Sevens World Series. Leal has 76 full caps for . He played three games at the

2007 Rugby World Cup The 2007 Rugby World Cup () was the sixth Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition organised by the International Rugby Board. Twenty nations competed for the Webb Ellis Cup in the tournament, which was hosted by F ...

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1984 births Living people Rugby union fullbacks Portuguese rugby union players Portugal international rugby sevens players Male rugby sevens players Rugby union players from Lisbon Portugal international rugby union players 2007 Rugby World Cup players Rugby Nice Côte d'Azur players Portuguese expatriate rugby union players in France World Games silver medalists World Games medalists in rugby sevens Medalists at the 2009 World Games {{portugal-rugbyunion-bio-stub