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Joaquín Tuculet (born 8 August 1989 in La Plata, Argentina) is an Argentine rugby union player who plays for the national Argentina team The Pumas and the country's Super Rugby team, the Jaguares. Tuculet is capable of playing full-back, wing, Centre or fly-half.
After Pampas XV won the Vodacom Cup, Tuculet was selected for Los Jaguares (Argentina A; not to be confused with the Super Rugby team) for the IRB Nations Cup in Romania and was the teams fullback. Tuculet played for Argentina in the IRB Junior World Championship in 2008 in Wales and 2009 in Japan, featuring for Los Pumitas in matches vs Fiji, Ireland, New Zealand and Uruguay as the teams fullback. He got his first cap for Argentina in 2012, playing against Italy.
Joaquín is part of the Argentina squad that competes in the Rugby Championship.
He was part of the national team that competed at the 2015 Rugby World Cup.