{"id":761860,"date":"2026-06-26T16:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/761860\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T16:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:01:16","slug":"argentina-and-usa-set-for-battle-at-junior-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/761860\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina and USA set for Battle at Junior World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina and the USA are set for battle at the 2026 Junior World Championship. The teams will face-off in the opening round of the World Rugby tournament in Georgia. Taking place at Avchala Stadium in Tbilisi, the contest will be a Pool C fixture.<\/p>\n<p>The match is new as although Argentina\u2019s Los Pumitas are perennial top-tier competitors, the USA Men\u2019s U20 team has historically spent most of their time fighting for qualification in the lower-tier World Rugby U20 Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentina vs USA fixture comes after World Rugby expanded the Junior World Championship for the 2026 edition. The Georgia-hosted competition features an expanded format from 12 to 16 teams, opening the door for the newly-promoted USA squad to join Pool C alongside Argentina, England, and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>The match kicks off on Saturday, June 27, 2026, at 13:00 local time in Tbilisi which is 6:00am in Argentina and 5:00am in New York.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"tie-appear alignnone wp-image-21117\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/world-rugby-logo-black-300x150.jpg\"   alt=\"\" width=\"34\" height=\"17\"\/> LINE-UPS<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-97022\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Logo-Pumitas-2023-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\"\/><br \/>ARGENTINA<br \/>1 Fabrizio Cebron, 2 Manuel Cuneo Camargo, 3 Bautista Salinas Mallea, 4 Joaqu\u00edn Pascual Viale, 5 Bautista Benavides, 6 Tom\u00e1s Dande (capt.), 7 Jer\u00f3nimo Sorondo, 8 Basilio Ca\u00f1as, 9 Valentino Reggiardo, 10 Federico Serpa Laporte, 11 Benjam\u00edn Ledesma Arocena, 12 Pedro Coll, 13 Ram\u00f3n Fern\u00e1ndez Miranda, 14 Bautista Lescano, 15 Sim\u00f3n Pfister<\/p>\n<p>Replacements: 16 Nicol\u00e1s Cambiasso, 17 Benjam\u00edn Far\u00edas Cerioni, 18 Federico Narvaez, 19 Jeremy Annand, 20 Franco Marizza Mizawak, 21 Juan Preumayr, 22 Manuel Giannantonio, 23 Benjam\u00edn Ordiz Yujnovsky<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/logo-usa-thumbnailx.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\"\/><br \/>USA<br \/>1 Oliver Kirk, 2 Sawyer Troupe, 3 Tyler Trower, 4 Pierce Kelly, 5 Lyndon Bailey, 6 Jayden Williams, 7 Yiannis Efthymiopoulos, 8 Papaseea Matelau, 9 Spencer Huntley (capt.), 10 Declan Cadden, 11 Sialeafuhia Ofa, 12 Leo Keesler-Venables, 13 Dane Mitchell, 14 Marco Lapierre, 15 Gavin Holder<\/p>\n<p>Replacements: 16 Aidan Stewart, 17 Colin Donnelly, 18 Alfie Booth, 19 Tanielu Talaepa, 20 Frank Finicle, 21 Liam Hill, 22 Joseph Sarkees, 23 William Darbishire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Argentina and the USA are set for battle at the 2026 Junior World Championship. The teams will face-off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,321217,340295],"class_list":["post-761860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-u20","tag-world-rugby-u20s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761860","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=761860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}