The Argentine Under-20 rugby team, Los Pumitas, will travel tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. to Johannesburg to participate in the Youth World Cup in South Africa, to be played in that country between June 24 and July 14.
The Pumitas will put an end to the period of concentration and fine-tuning that they carried out at the Casa Pumas facilities, located in the Buenos Aires town of Ingeniero Maschwitz, where they had been since last Wednesday.
The World Cup in South Africa will be divided into three zones of four selected each; zone A will be made up of Wales, France, New Zealand and Japan, zone B will be made up of England, Fiji, Australia and Ireland.
While those selected from South Africa, Argentina, Italy and Georgia are part of zone C.
Los Pumitas’ debut will be next Saturday June 24 against Italy, a match that will be held at 6 p.m. (Argentine time) at the Paarl Gymnasium, in the city of Paarl.
Likewise, five days later, the Argentine team will face Georgia starting at 11:30 at the Danie Craven Stadium in Stellenbosch, and they will finish their participation in the qualifying stage on Tuesday, July 4, against South Africa, starting at 2:00 p.m. at Boland Stadium, in Wellington, Western Cape,
The semifinals of the M20 Youth World Cup in South Africa are scheduled for July 9 and the final will take place on Friday, July 14.
The French national team won the last two editions of the Youth World Cup, in 2018 they defeated England 33-25 at home.
A year later, the “Le Blue” team won the two-time championship by beating Australia 24-23, a contest held in our country.
The competition returns after the three-year break following the Covid-19 pandemic,
The coach of Los Pumitas, Alvaro Galindo, pointed out on the official website of the UAR that “the team is very united and we hope to reach the World Cup in South Africa in the best possible way.
For his part, the player from Los Tilos de La Plata, Eliseo Chiavassa, stated that “we are very well focused and the objective is to be able to become champions, we have a very united group with players of great quality of play.”
The list of called players is as follows: Matías Medrano (Bella Vista Regattas), Francisco Palazzi (Old Lions of Santiago del Estero), Tomás Bartolini (Marista Rugby Club of Mendoza), Valentino Minoyetti (Buenos Aires C&RC), Juan Manuel Vivas ( Los Tordos de Mendoza), Lautaro Fanlo (Lince de Tucumán), Renzo Zanella (Commercial, Mar del Plata).
Marcos Camerlinxck (Regattas of Bella Vista), Mateo Lorenzo (La Plata Rugby Club), Federico Roloti (La Tablada de Córdoba), Efraín Elías (Jockey Club of Córdoba), Tiziano Alejandro Barrios (Duendes RC de Rosario)), Eliseo Chiavassa ( Los Tilos), Felipe Bares (Los Tilos).
Aitor Bildosola (Los Tordos de Mendoza), Benjamín Grondona (Champagnat), Facundo García Hamilton (Tucumán Rugby Club), Agustín Moyano (Córdoba Athletic), Nicolás Viola (Jockey Club of Córdoba).
Tomás De Biase (French Sports), Juan Bautista Baronio (Jockey Club of Rosario), Valentino Dicapua (Duendes RC of Rosario), Ignacio Lucero (Mendoza RC), Nicolás López González (Tucumán Rugby Club), Ernesto Giudice (Mendoza RC).
Felipe Mallía (Córdoba Jockey Club), Faustino Sánchez Baraloro (Palermo Bajo de Córdoba)
Valentín Soler Filloy (Tala Rugby Club of Córdoba), Mateo Soler (Tala Rugby Club of Córdoba) and Benjamín Elizalde ((French Sports).
The competition returns after the three-year break following the Covid-19 pandemic,
Source: Ambito
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