Alberto Vernet Basualdo (born June 8, 1982) is an Argentine rugby union player.

He started playing in Buenos Aires for Asociación Alumni and for Toulouse in France four years; he also played for the Argentine national rugby team, his debut for Los Pumas was on December 4, 2004.

In 2005 he suffered a career threatening neck injury displacing the 5th vertebra and the Intervertebral disc, but he recovered and was selected to represent Argentina at the 2007 Rugby World Cup.

In 2010 he was a replacement for the final as Toulouse won the Heineken Cup.

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