{"id":369842,"date":"2025-12-24T23:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T23:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369842\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T23:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T23:59:08","slug":"tarucas-roster-for-super-rugby-americas-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369842\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarucas Roster for Super Rugby Americas 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Tarucas have confirmed their player roster for Super Rugby Americas (SRA) 2026. The Tucum\u00e1n-based franchise joined the South American professional rugby league for the SRA 2025 season. The team proved to be competitive in their rookie campaign and will be looking to build on that for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

The majority of the 43-man Tarcuas roster are players from Tucum\u00e1n<\/a>. This is by design as NOA (Rugby NorOeste Argentino) is seeking pathways for more players from the region to become Pumas.<\/p>\n

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\"\"TUCUM\u00c1N PLAYERS AND CLUBS<\/p>\n

Tucum\u00e1n RC players on Los Tarucas 2026 roster include Joaqu\u00edn Aguilar, Bautista Estof\u00e1n, Facundo Garc\u00eda Hamilton, Mateo Macome, Nicol\u00e1s Macome, Mariano Muntaner , Rafael O\u2019Gorman, Mateo Pasquini , Pablo Pfister, Sim\u00f3n Pfister, Joaqu\u00edn Poliche, Mat\u00edas Sauze.<\/p>\n

Player from other Tucum\u00e1n clubs are Ignacio Cerrutti (Cardenales), Tom\u00e1s Dande, Benjam\u00edn Garrido, Mat\u00edas Orlando\u00a0(Huirapuca), Benjam\u00edn Far\u00edas, Francisco Moreno, Thiago Sbrocco, Tom\u00e1s Vanni (Universitario), Stefano Ferro, Miguel Mukdise, Rodrigo Navarro, Santiago Saleme\u00a0(Lawn Tennis), Lucas Guc, Ignacio Lazarte, M\u00e1ximo Ledesma (Nataci\u00f3n y Gimnasia), Ra\u00fal Guraib (Jockey), and Mat\u00edas Salmoiraghi (Lince).<\/p>\n

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\"\"NOTABLE CHANGES FROM 2025<\/p>\n

The big news on the roster is the inclusion of Puma Mat\u00edas Orlando. The veteran of Rugby World Cup 2019 is back in Tucum\u00e1n from the Miami Sharks in Major League Rugby (MLR). Orlando has a reputable career for Argentina with wins over New Zealand in 2020<\/a> and in 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Orlando last played for Los Pumas in November 2024. He started for Argentina in the record win over Italy in Udine<\/a>. It was Orlando\u2019s 62nd test cap. He return from MLR to Argentina is a homecoming; Orlando is a product of Huirapuca in Tucum\u00e1n. He arrives at Los Tarucas after playing Super Rugby for Los Jaguares (2016-2020), English Premiership for Newcastle Red Bulls (2000-2024) and MLR for Miami Sharks (2024-2025).<\/p>\n

Orlando\u2019s inclusion is highly notable for supporters from the region and also for new recruit Pedro Coll. The 2025 star Pumitas center is a player who has been identified as having a promising future.<\/p>\n

Los Tarucas\u2019 roster notably comes without Nicol\u00e1s Roger and Tom\u00e1s Medina. The former debuted for Argentina in July<\/a> while the later was on the Argentina XV roster this past November.<\/a> Both players have been linked to moves to Italy to play for Benetton in the United Rugby Championship (URC).<\/p>\n

Roger formed a notable halves combination with Sim\u00f3n Ben\u00edtez Cruz in SRA 2025. Ben\u00edtez Cruz went on to have a busy rookie season for Los Pumas and now pays in the English Premiership for the Newcastle Red Bulls.<\/p>\n

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

PROP
Lorenzo Egea
Benjam\u00edn Far\u00edas
Benjam\u00edn Garrido
Ignacio Lazarte
Francisco Moreno
Mariano Muntaner
Rodrigo Navarro
Francisco Palazzi<\/p>\n

HOOKER
Jos\u00e9 Calderoni
Ra\u00fal Guraib
Joaqu\u00edn Poliche
Juan Manuel Vivas<\/p>\n

SECOND-ROW
Joaqu\u00edn Aguilar
Luciano Asevedo
Franco Marini
Ignacio M\u00e1rquez
Mat\u00edas Salmoiraghi
Tom\u00e1s Vanni<\/p>\n

FLANKER
Facundo Cardozo
Tom\u00e1s Dande
Nicol\u00e1s Parada Heit
Agust\u00edn Sarelli
Thiago Sbrocco<\/p>\n

N8
Lucas Guc
Facundo Garc\u00eda Hamilton
Miguel Mukdise<\/p>\n

SCRUM-HALF
Estanislao Pregot
Santiago Saleme
Mat\u00edas Sauze<\/p>\n

FLY HALF
Ignacio Cerrutti
M\u00e1ximo Ledesma
Sim\u00f3n Pfister<\/p>\n

CENTER
Pedro Coll
Bautista Estof\u00e1n
Stefano Ferro
Mateo Macome
Mat\u00edas Orlando<\/p>\n

WING
Tom\u00e1s Elizalde
Mateo Estof\u00e1n
Rafael O\u2019Gorman
Mateo Pasquini
Pablo Pfister<\/p>\n

FULLBACK
Nicol\u00e1s Macome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Tarucas have confirmed their player roster for Super Rugby Americas (SRA) 2026. The Tucum\u00e1n-based franchise joined the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-369842","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\/369842","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=369842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}