João Paulo Bessa

João Paulo Bessa

João Paulo de Castro Silva Bessa (born Porto, 25 April 1947) is a Portuguese architect, journalist and a former rugby union player and coach. He also played football and tennis.

He studied Architecture at the University of Porto. He first played at CDUP, but latter moved to CDUL, in Lisbon. He was one of the best rugby union portuguese players of his time and was capped several times for Portugal. After ending his career, he become a coach. He was the National Team coach for several years, and almost achieved the qualification for the 1999 Rugby World Cup finals, but was eliminated by Uruguay at the repechage.

João Paulo Bessa also has been a sports journalist for many portuguese newspapers.


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