Rugby In Argentina
Nicknamed the pumas they play in sky blue and white jerseys argentina played its first international rugby match in 1910 against a touring british isles team.
Rugby in argentina. 14 nov 2020 0700 am 2 minutes to read. All blacks star ardie savea finally wears mouthguard in tri nations clash against argentina. The entire tournament was played in montevideo uruguay a country that has displayed one of the best responses to the global situation in a hard hit region. Rugby union in argentina is a popular team sport.
They have competed at every rugby world cup staged since the first to. The argentina national team sometimes referred to as the pumas have competed at the rugby world cup and are considered a tier one nation by the sports governing body world rugby. Argentina has claimed their first ever win against the all blacks in their countrys history beating them 25 15 in a mesmerising performance. Argentina celebrate the famous win.
Video will play in. The argentina national rugby union team represents argentina in mens international rugby union and its organised by the argentine rugby union. Argentinas nicolas sanchez dives across the line to score his teams first try during the tri nations rugby test between argentina and new zealand at bankwest stadium sydney. An argentina xv celebrated the first international rugby tournament since the beginning of the covid 19 pandemic by beating in successive rounds teams representing chile brazil and uruguay in the sudamericano 4 naciones 2020.
Rugby especially has been a matter of national pride in recent years with the national side performing exceedingly well at last years rugby world cup. Chocobares who had a brief world rugby u20 championship in argentina due to injury will start his first test against the all blacks replacing duendes club mate jeronimo de la fuente who is carrying an injury. Duendes rugby club in rosario will provide the squad with another player in the form of juan imhoff. Argentina served up one of the biggest upsets in test rugby history when they stunned new zealand 25 15 in the tri nations on saturday beating the three times world champions for the first time.
Argentina excels at a number of other sports and has a history of excellence in boxing polo and rugby all of which are popular in various parts of the country andor segment of society.