Alberto Román

{{short description|Uruguayan rugby union player}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}

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| name = Alberto Román

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1987|6|1|df=y}}

| birth_place = Montevideo, Uruguay

| height = {{convert|1.78|m|ftin|abbr=on|frac=2}}

| weight = {{convert|95|kg|stlb lb}}

| ru_position = Centre

| repyears1 = 2011-

| repteam1 = Uruguay

| repcaps1 = 40

| reppoints1 = 30

| ru_ntupdate = 1 March 2016

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Alberto "Paco" Román (born 1 June 1987 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan rugby union player who plays as a centre for Pucaru Stade Gaulois.{{cite web|url=http://en.espn.co.uk/scrum/rugby/player/154674.html |title=Alberto Román |publisher=ESPN |date=12 September 2015 |accessdate=12 September 2015}} He was named in Uruguay's squad for the 2015 Rugby World Cup.{{cite web|url=http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/news/87938|title=Uruguay's squad step into the unknown|publisher=Rugby World Cup|date=30 August 2015|accessdate=30 August 2015}}

In September 2012, he moved to Italy along with his countryman Jerónimo Etcheverry to play for Rugby Club Valpolicella.{{cite web|url=http://www.rugbynews.com.uy/paco-roman-se-va-a-italia/|title=PACO ROMÁN SE VA A ITALIA|date=6 September 2012|publisher=rugbynews.com.uy|accessdate=29 September 2015|language=Spanish}}

His career started in 1994, when he joined the [https://clubaleman.com.uy/ Deutscher Klub] where "El Pata" established a rugby school for small children. Later on, this school merged with the DSM (Colegio Alemán), where Gonzalo "El manco" Laborde participated and mentor "Paco" during his firsts steps. One of his first important achievements was in 2002, when Colegio Alemán won for the first time the Uruguayan championship against British School. In 2003, he joined the "Alte Deutsche", a newly created Rugby Club for German School Alumni.