The Argentina XV got their World Rugby Nations Cup campaign off to an ideal start, seeing off Spain 44-8 in Bucharest, Romania. The match was vastly different either side of the interval. An impressive effort from the Spanish scrum caused a variety of headaches for the Argentina XV and kept the …
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Argentina Head Coach Daniel Hourcade has confirmed the lineup for Los Pumas’ first test match of 2016. Argentina will play host to Italy on Saturday at the Estadio Brigadier López in Santa Fé. El Huevo‘s selection is highly consistent with that used in 2015. The missing trio of Ramiro Herrera, Tomás …
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The World Rugby Nations Cup returns on Thursday, hosted for the 10th consecutive time in Bucharest, Romania. This year’s tournament has been expanded from four to six teams for the first time since 2012. With the Tbilisi Cup put on hold due to Georgia’s Pacific Island tour, Emerging Italy and …
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Martín García Veiga has signed for newly-promoted Pro D2 club Vannes for the 2016/17 season. The former Pumas hooker moves to France from Jersey in the Channel Islands, who he leaves after two seasons as a regular starter in the Greene King IPA Championship. He won the last of his …
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While much of the European club season is winding down, we still had a full slate of Top 14 action to pine over and of course PRO Rugby, the Pro D2 final, the Canadian Rugby Championship, and the match between Chile and the Argentina XV. Next week we’ll have the …
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Felipe Ezcurra is to captain Argentina XV vs Spain in the opening round fixture of the World Rugby Nations Cup in Romania on Thursday. The 23 year old Hindú Club scrum half has been a wider roster member of Los Jaguares in Super Rugby providing support to Martín Landajo and …
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Rosario referee Damián Schneider will take charge of the officiating of tomorrow’s World Rugby Nations Cup opening round fixture between Uruguay and Emerging Italy. Schneider is one of Argentina’s leading officials. He refereed three matches in the Americas Rugby Championship and in May 2015 he made his debut on the world stage, taking …
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The stellar season of Juan Imhoff had another impressive chapter added to it this past weekend. The Rosario flier ran in two tries for Racing 92 who completed a 40-25 win over European Challenge Cup winners, Montpellier. As a result of the win Racing 92 were confirmed as finishing the regular …
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Argentina’s u20 side, Los Pumitas, completed a sensational win over France this afternoon in the World Rugby Junior World Championship in Manchester, England. An unlikely turnaround in the final 20 minutes saw Los Pumitas overcoming France 24-15 at AJ Bell Stadium. Up until the final quarter it was all France. The Europeans held an …
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In his first match in charge of Italy Conor O’Shea has named a much altered lineup to that which represented Italy in the 2016 Six Nations Championship. With regular captain Sergio Parisse not touring the captaincy has fallen upon scrum half Edoardo Gori. He will join forces in the halves …
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