Argentina XV national rugby union team

Argentina XV
Union	Argentine Rugby Union
Emblem(s)	Yaguareté
Coach(es)	Ignacio Fernández Lobbe
Captain(s)	Lautaro Bavaro
Team kit	Change kit
First international
	Argentina XV 23–11 Chile ; (26 September 1965)
Largest win
	Paraguay 0–152 Argentina A ; (1 May 2002)
Largest defeat
	Argentina A 8–30 Romania; (12 June 2013)
Official website
	uar.com.ar/equipos-uar/argentina-xv/

Argentina XV, formerly known as the Jaguares, are the second national rugby union team in Argentina, after the full national side, the Pumas.

Overview

They already represented Argentina at the South American Rugby Championship, in 2001, 2002, 2005, 2009 and 2011. Argentina second side won all the South American competitions they have entered and never were defeated yet by another country in these tournaments.

They competed in the Nations Cup in 2006 and 2007, winning the tournament in 2006, and in the Churchill Cup in 2008 and 2009. They've played alongside the full national teams of Namibia, Romania, Georgia, the United States, and Canada as well as other second national teams like Italy A, the Emerging Springboks, and the England Saxons. They have also competed in a number of South American tournaments and will compete against North American teams in the Americas Rugby Championship. In 2014 they participated in the IRB Tbilisi Cup.^[1]

Argentina XV at a 2015 test match versus Uruguay's Teros

Results

Churchill Cup

2005: 2nd
2008: 4th
2009: 3rd

Nations Cup / Tbilisi Cup

2006: 1st
2007: 2nd
2010: 4th
2011: 3rd
2012: 2nd
2013: 3rd
2014: 1st
2015: 2nd

Americas Rugby Championship

1st in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2016.

UruCup

2015: 1st.

Current squad

Argentina XV squad to play Namibia, Chile and Uruguay as part of the 2023 Rugby World Cup warm-up matches^[2]

Head coach: Ignacio Fernández Lobbe

Note: Bold denotes internationally capped players.

Forwards
Player	Position	Club
Facundo Bosch	Hooker	Bayonne
Ramiro Gurovich	Hooker	Pampas XV
Boris Wenger	Hooker	Pampas XV
Javier Coronel	Prop	Pampas XV
Javier Corvalán	Prop	Pampas XV
Santiago Medrano	Prop	Western Force
Santiago Pulella	Prop	Dogos XV
Lucio Sordoni	Prop	Glasgow Warriors
Lorenzo Colidio	Lock	Pampas XV
Federico Lavanini	Lock	Pampas XV
Lautaro Simes	Lock	Dogos XV
Manuel Bernstein	Back row	Pampas XV
Rodrigo Fernández Criado	Back row	Pampas XV
Eliseo Fourcade	Back row	Pampas XV
Joaquín Oviedo	Back row	Perpignan

Backs
Player	Position	Club
Ignacio Inchauspe	Scrum-half	Yacare XV
Rafael Iriarte	Scrum-half	Pampas XV
Joaquín de la Vega Mendía	Fly-half	Pampas XV
Julián Hernández	Fly-half	Dogos XV
Juan Pablo Castro	Centre	Pampas XV
Luciano González	Centre	Los Pumas 7's
Agustín Segura	Centre	Dogos XV
Lautaro Cipriani	Wing	Dogos XV
Bautista Delguy	Wing	Clermont Auvergne
Iñaki Delguy	Wing	Pampas XV
Martín Bogado	Fullback	Highlanders

References

^ "Georgia to host Tbilisi Cup 2014". International Rugby Board. 4 April 2014. Archived from the original on 14 May 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
^ Stars to play for Argentina XV against Namibia

External links

Official website

[1] "Georgia to host Tbilisi Cup 2014". International Rugby Board. 4 April 2014. Archived from the original on 14 May 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2014.

[2] Stars to play for Argentina XV against Namibia

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