{"id":44419,"date":"2025-08-05T04:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T04:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/44419\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T04:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T04:03:12","slug":"nine-rookies-named-in-los-pumas-rugby-championship-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/44419\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine rookies named in Los Pumas’ Rugby Championship squad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Felipe Contepomi has named a youth-infused 34-man Argentina<\/a> squad for the upcoming Rugby Championship, backing an impressive contingent who have debuted this year.<\/p>\n

That means nine Test rookies have made the cut, with two uncapped players joining seven up-and-comers who featured in Los Pumas\u2019 July series losses to England. Loose Head Prop Boris Wenger<\/a> and utility back Ger\u00f3nimo Prisciantelli are the pair searching for their first taste of the international arena.<\/p>\n

Injuries to familiar selections Emiliano Boffelli<\/a> and Thomas Gallo<\/a> have opened some doors, while the selections of players like 21-year-old Bristol<\/a> Bears fullback Benjamin Elizalde<\/a> and 22-year-old scrumhalf Augustine Moyano are a nod to the future and reward for their respective efforts in July.<\/p>\n

After a long season in the Top 14, Ignacio Ruiz<\/a>, Marcos Kremer<\/a>, Santiago Chocobares<\/a>, Bautista Delguy<\/a> and Juan Cruz Mall\u00eda are back in the squad. The quintet were rested during July.<\/p>\n

The likes of Mat\u00edas Moroni, Tom\u00e1s Lavanini, and Gonzalo Bertranou<\/a> have all missed selection after big contributions to the team in recent seasons.<\/p>\n

The South Americans\u2019 campaign opener comes at home against New Zealand<\/a> on August 16.<\/p>\n

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Head-to-Head <\/p>\n

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Last 5 Meetings<\/p>\n

Average Points scored<\/p>\n

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Los Pumas\u2019 2025 Rugby Championship<\/a> squad<\/p>\n

Forwards<\/p>\n

BERNASCONI, Bautista<\/p>\n

OVIEDO, Joaqu\u00edn<\/p>\n

CORIA MARCHETI, Francisco PAULOS, Lucas<\/p>\n

D\u2019AMORIM, Nicol\u00e1s *<\/p>\n

PETTI, Guido<\/p>\n

DELGADO, Pedro<\/p>\n

RUBOLO, Pedro<\/p>\n

GONZALEZ, Juan Mart\u00edn<\/p>\n

RUIZ, Ignacio<\/p>\n

GRONDONA, Santiago<\/p>\n

SCLAVI, Joel<\/p>\n

KREMER, Marcos<\/p>\n

TETAZ CHAPARRO, Nahuel<\/p>\n

MATERA, Pablo<\/p>\n

VIVAS, Mayco<\/p>\n

MOLINA, Franco<\/p>\n

WENGER, Boris*<\/p>\n

MONTOYA, Juli\u00e1n<\/p>\n

Backs<\/p>\n

ALBORNOZ, Tom\u00e1s<\/p>\n

GARCIA, Gonzalo<\/p>\n

BENITEZ CRUZ, Sim\u00f3n<\/p>\n

ISGRO, Rodrigo<\/p>\n

CARRERAS, Mateo<\/p>\n

MALLIA, Juan Gruz<\/p>\n

CARRERAS, Santiago<\/p>\n

MENDY, Ignacio<\/p>\n

CHOCOBARES, Santiago<\/p>\n

MOYANO, Agust\u00edn<\/p>\n

CINI, Lucio<\/p>\n

PICCARDO, Justo<\/p>\n

ELIZALDE, Benjam\u00edn<\/p>\n

PRISCIANTELLI, Ger\u00f3nimo<\/p>\n

DELGUY, Bautista<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Felipe Contepomi has named a youth-infused 34-man Argentina squad for the upcoming Rugby Championship, backing an impressive contingent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-44419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44419","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=44419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}