The Argentine rugby sevens team, Los Pumas 7s, defeated Australia by 45 to 12 (28-0) and became champion in the Cape Town (South Africa) tournament, the second stage of the Men’s Rugby 7’s World Series ( SVNS), which organizes World Rugby (WR).
The Pumas 7s, who had just achieved second place in Dubai, the first event of the World Cup, won their first title in Cape Town and the seventh for Argentina, after the consecrations in Los Angeles 2004, San Diego 2009, Vancouver 2022, Hamilton 2023 , Vancouver 2023 and London 2023.
With the victory and the early elimination of South Africa, the champion in Dubai, they finished the second stage in first place in the general table, with 38 points.
The procedure was favorable for Santiago Gómez Cora’s team from the beginning, which took advantage of the warning from Australian captain Nick Malouf, to score three consecutive tries and seal a 21-0 run with the conversions of Joaquín Pellandini. Germán Schulz, Santiago Mare and Marcos Moneta were in charge of the conquests. At the close, Matías Osadczuk scored the fourth try and Pellandini established the partial 28-0. In the second half, Nathan Lawson and Dietrich Roache scored for Australia (28-12), but Osadczuk, Tomás Elizalde and captain Santiago Álvarez Fourcade They scored the final 45-12.
The third stage of the World Cup will be held between January 26 and 28, 2024, in Perth, Australia. This new SVNS is made up of seven tournaments and a final series in which the champion of the season will be defined. The SVNS will last seven months, and is made up of 12 selected teams, they are Argentina, New Zealand, Great Britain, South Africa, the United States, Ireland, Fiji, Samoa, Australia, France, Spain and Canada.
Source: Ambito
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