{"id":369763,"date":"2025-12-24T23:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T23:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369763\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T23:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T23:06:10","slug":"super-rugby-americas-newcomers-los-capibaras-name-exciting-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369763\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Rugby Americas Newcomers Los Capibaras Name Exciting Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new franchise in Super Rugby Americas (SRA), Los Capibaras, has assembled an exciting roster for the SRA 2026 season<\/a>. Los Capibaras represent El Litoral, and specifically rugby clubs throughout the provinces of Rosario, Entre R\u00edos and Santa Fe.<\/p>\n

The birth of Los Capibaras means Argentina has four professional teams and now has 50% of the places in Super Rugby Americas. Los Capibaras join a year after Los Tarucas who play out of Tucum\u00e1n. SRA also has Los Pampas (Buenos Aires) and Los Dogos (C\u00f3rdoba) in addition to one team from each of Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.<\/p>\n

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\"\"CAPIBARAS \u2013 ROSARIO, ENTRE R\u00cdOS AND SANTA FE<\/p>\n

The inaugural Capibaras roster contains 43 players. 27 of the players are contracted and 16 are invitational players. 39 of the players are from the Litoral region and the other also has places for players returning home from professional experiences abroad.<\/p>\n

Jockey de Rosario is prominent on the inaugural Los Capibaras roster. Nine players from the Jockey Club are on the roster. Estudiantes, Duendes and Atl\u00e9tico del Rosario each have five players included while Tilcara has three and Paran\u00e1 Rowing and CRAI have two each.<\/p>\n

Additional clubs from El Litoral who have one player on the roster include Santa Fe Rugby, Uni de Santa Fe, Cha Roga, Logaritmo, Los Caranchos, Uni de Rosario and GER.<\/p>\n

In terms of the unions, Rosario is the most represented with 23 players. Entrerriana is next with 11, and Santa Fe has five. This is inline with population as Rosario is easily the largest city in the region and is the third largest in Argentina.<\/p>\n

The roster is completed but two players from C\u00f3rdoba, one from Cuyo and one from San Juan.<\/p>\n

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\"\"HOMECOMING PROFESSIONALS<\/p>\n

The roster includes players returning from professional experiences abroad. Examples are Lucas B\u00fcr, Jer\u00f3nimo G\u00f3mez Vara\u00a0and Mart\u00edn Vaca from Major League Rugby (MLR) and Enzo Avaca from the United Rugby Championship (URC).<\/p>\n

There are also many coming home from rival SRA teams. Among them is Manuel Bernstein who captained Los Pampas. Another is Ignacio Gandini, who is a former captain of Paraguay\u2019s SRA<\/a> franchise.<\/p>\n

Seven recruits are former SRA champions with Los Dogos<\/a>. They are Gandini, Lautaro Ciprani, Juan Baronio, Felipe Villagr\u00e1n, Franco Rosetto and Diego Correa.<\/p>\n

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\"\"CAPIBARAS SEASON DEBUT<\/p>\n

Los Capibaras will begin their rookie season preparations on January 15. The official SRA debut will make place in a home match against reigning champions Pe\u00f1arol in Rosario on February 21. Los Capibaras will then place in the provincial capital of Santa Fe against Yacare on February 28.<\/p>\n

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\"\"CAPIBARAS ROSTER 2026<\/p>\n

LOOSE HEAD PROP
Pedro Annunziata
Diego Correa
Jorge Onorato
Juan Rodr\u00edguez<\/p>\n

HOOKER
Manuel Cuneo
Bernardo Lis
Mart\u00edn Vaca<\/p>\n

TIGHT HEAD PROP
Enzo Avaca
Lisandro Dipierri
Ignacio Orsetti<\/p>\n

SECOND-ROW
Bautista Benavides
Lucas Bur
Lorenzo Colidio
Ignacio Gallo
Agust\u00edn Ponzio
Juan Segundo Huber<\/p>\n

FLANKER
Franco Ben\u00edtez
Manuel Bernstein
Basilio Ca\u00f1as
Bautista Gre\u00f1\u00f3n
Franco Marizza
Felipe Villgar\u00e1n<\/p>\n

N8
Ignacio Gandini
Jer\u00f3nimo G\u00f3mez Vara<\/p>\n

SCRUM-HALF
Juan Lovell
Alejo Sugasti
Ignacio Zabella<\/p>\n

FLY HALF
Martiniano Aime
Juan Baronio
Ignacio Dogliani
Santiago Vitola<\/p>\n

CENTER
Mateo Baroli
Guido Chesini
Bautista Estelles
Bruno Heit
Francisco Lluch
Benjam\u00edn Ordiz
Mateo Tanoni<\/p>\n

WING
Pietro Crocce
Lautaro Cipriani
Gino Dicapua
Franco Rosetto<\/p>\n

FULLBACK
Tom\u00e1s Sigura<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new franchise in Super Rugby Americas (SRA), Los Capibaras, has assembled an exciting roster for the SRA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-369763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}