He Argentine rugby sevens team, Los Pumas 7s, was consecrated champion of the specialty tournament in Perthcorresponding to the third station of the World Rugby SVNS circuitafter beating the local team today Australia 31-5 in the final played in the HBF Park stadium.
Who converted the tries for Los Pumas 7s
The resounding victory against the Wallabies was consumed with tries by Marcos Moneta (3m and 16m), Germán Schulz (12m) and Matteo Graziano (13m and 17m), plus conversions by Joaquín Pellandini (4m) and Santiago Mare (12m and 14m).
The oceanic team discounted at 19m. playing with a try by Matthew González.
The Argentine technical director, Santiago Gomez Cora, arranged the following initial formation for the last match: Schulz, Santiago Álvarez (captain), Luciano González, Pellandini, Mare, Matías Osadczuk and Moneta; while Gastón Revol, Graziano, Agustín Fraga, Rodrigo Isgró and Tomás Elizalde waited on the bench.
The Pumas 7s. They reached the final after eliminating Ireland 24-5 in the previous round.with tries from González, Osadczuk, Moneta and Isgró and conversions by Pellandini and Mare.
On Saturday, the bronze medal winners in the past Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games were awarded the Australian Sevens Group B with victories against Spain (28-5), Canada (29-5) and South Africa (19-5) and in the quarterfinals they defeated Spain again (28-17).
The Pumas 7s won the second title of the year
Argentina got in Perth the second tournament of the year, after being crowned in the Seven from Cape Town (South Africa), also with triumph over Australia in the definition (45-12). The record with the oceanic team was 36 victories for Los Pumas 7s and 40 defeats in 76 matches.
In the opening of the season, the Argentine team was also a finalist in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), but lost to South Africa 12-7.
The “albiceleste” team leads the general classification of the circuit with 58 units, followed by Fiji (44), Australia (44), South Africa (42), Ireland (42), New Zealand (32), France (20), United States United States (16), Samoa (14), Spain (11), Canada (10) and Great Britain (9).
The great objective of The Pumas 7s focuses this year on the Paris Olympic Gamesto which he qualified after being second in the last circuit behind the champion New Zealand.
With a new format, now called SVNS, the international sevens calendar is made up of seven tournaments and a final series in which the champion of the season will be defined. The competition lasts seven months during which the twelve selected participants accumulate points with their positions on each date.
After them, the eight best in the table will reach the Madrid Grand Final to fight for the 2024 crown, while the other four teams (from 9th to 12th place) will face the four best in the World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series in playoff brackets for a place in the following year’s SVNS main draw.
The circuit will continue from February 23 to 25 with el Vancouver Seven in Canada and then the Los Angeles Seven, the Hong Kong Seven (April 5 to 7), the Singapore Seven (May 3 to 5) and the final instance in Madrid (May 31) will be played. to June 2).
Source: Ambito
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