{"id":557946,"date":"2026-03-22T23:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/557946\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T23:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:42:09","slug":"ignacio-mendy-shining-bright-for-benetton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/557946\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignacio Mendy Shining Bright for Benetton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ignacio Mendy is shining bright for Benetton. The Argentine winger looks to be playing his way into amassing further caps in 2026. Weeks after featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americasrugbynews.com\/2026\/03\/05\/argentina-roster-for-2026-takes-shape\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Felipe Contepomi\u2019s first training camp for the year<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americasrugbynews.com\/2026\/03\/05\/argentina-roster-for-2026-takes-shape\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mendy was a try-scorer for Benetton against the Ospreys<\/a> in the United Rugby Championship (URC).<\/p>\n<p>Benetton went on to win the match 31-19, doing so by claiming a bonus point.\u00a0The Lyon-bound Pumas prop, Thomas Gallo also started for Benetton. He was the victim of foul play by the Ospreys in the match.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kiki Mendy is under contract with Benetton until mid-2027. He joined the Italian side from Super Rugby Americas (SRA) in 2022. So far this season he has made 13 appearances for Benetton and has scored 4 tries.<\/p>\n<p>He was one of three wingers on Contepomi\u2019s roster that recently trained in London. He was joined by Mateo Carreras (Bayonne) and Rodrigo Isgr\u00f3 (Harlequins). Of note is that Bautista Delguy (Clermont) was absent. In terms of selection tendencies, the trio were ahead of Mendy in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Mendy earned one cap in the Rugby Championship and started in the win over the British &amp; Irish Lions in June, 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-114897 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Argentina-British-Irish-Lions-2025-Ignacio-Mendy-e1750505310219-660x330.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"309\"  \/>Foto Cr\u00e9dito: Juan Gasparini \/ Gaspafotos \/ Los Pumas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ignacio Mendy is shining bright for Benetton. The Argentine winger looks to be playing his way into amassing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,134441,446],"class_list":["post-557946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-united-rugby-championship","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557946","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=557946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}