Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Playing position Years Team | Weight 90 kg (14 st 2 lb) Current club Teikyo University Team Teikyo University | |
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Born 3 May 1994 (age 22)
Kyoto, Japan ( 1994-05-03 ) School(s) attended Fushimi Technical High School | ||
Rikiya Matsuda (松田力也, Matsuda Rikiya, born 3 May 1994) is a Japanese international rugby union player who plays as a outside back.
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Club Career
Matsuda is currently a student at Teikyo University in Tokyo and has appeared for them in both the All-Japan University Rugby Championship and the All-Japan Rugby Football Championship. After graduating from university he will join up with the Panasonic Wild Knights in 2017.
International
Matsuda represented Japan at Under-20 level from 2012 through to 2014, making 7 appearances in total at the World Rugby Under 20 Championships. He made his senior international debut as a replacement in a match against Canada in Vancouver on 11 June 2016. He went on to make 2 more appearances in the home tests against Scotland during the 2016 mid-year rugby union internationals series, coming on as a substitute in the first test in Toyota and then starting in the second in Tokyo.