{"id":763719,"date":"2026-06-27T12:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763719\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T12:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:52:15","slug":"argentina-deliver-thunderous-performance-against-usa-at-junior-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763719\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina Deliver Thunderous Performance against USA at Junior World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Argentina delivered a thunderous performance against the USA at the Junior World Championship. Played early on Saturday morning (Americas time), Los Pumitas completed their biggest ever win at the World Rugby u20 tournament, downing the USA 78-14.<\/p>\n

Those in attendance at the Avchala Stadium in Tbilisi witnessed a team in control; Los Pumitas were 40-0 up at half-time and fell two points short of doubling the total in the second-half. The USA\u2019s scoreless opening half was improved on by two tries in the second-half.<\/p>\n

It was an exhibition from the South Americans who were the better team from start to finish. In all, Los Pumitas ran in twelve tries against a USA team with a weak defensive arrangement. Argentina\u2019s scrum was also impressive in the match.<\/p>\n

Bautista Benavides opened the scoring. The second-rower crashed over into the try zone from a pick-and-go. Federico Serpa Laporte landed the conversion. It was followed by a series of additional tries as Los Pumitas were able to open up space. Super Rugby Americas players Pedro Coll (Tarucas), Manuel Cuneo Camargo (Capibaras) and Tom\u00e1s Dande (Tarucas) each scored as did Federico Serpa Laporte himself before another Tarucas try came from Sim\u00f3n Pfister.<\/p>\n

The 40-0 half-time advantage was quickly expanded; Benjam\u00edn Ordiz went over early before Sim\u00f3n Pfister scored his second try of the contest. Next to score was right winger Bautista Lescano.<\/p>\n

The USA then opened their scoring. The Eagles ran in two tries while Los Pumitas were a man down following Nicol\u00e1s Cambiasso\u2019s yellow card. Back-three players Sialeafuhia Ofa and Gavin Holder both scored for the North Americans. Declan Cadden converted the tries which were scored in the 65th and 70th minutes.<\/p>\n

Fullback Sim\u00f3n Pfister hit-back for Los Pumitas; thus completing hat-trick. Outside center Ram\u00f3n Fern\u00e1ndez Miranda and replacement Juan Preumayr also both added tries to complete the scoring.<\/p>\n

Both Argentina and the USA will play their second matches of the tournament on Thursday, July 02. Argentina face Ireland at 8:30am (Buenos Aires) while the USA take-on England at 10am (New York). Both matches will be played in Tbilisi.<\/p>\n

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\"\" SCORING<\/p>\n

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ARGENTINA (78)
TRY \u2013 B\u00a0Benavides (3\u2032), P Coll (23\u2032), M Cuneo Camargo (29\u2032), T Dande (35\u2032), F Serpa Laporte (38\u2032), Simon Pfister 3 (40\u2032, 44\u2032, 63\u2032), B Ordiz Yujnovsky (42\u2032), B Lescano (49\u2032), R Fernandez Miranda (75\u2032), J Preumayr (78\u2032)
CON \u2013 F Serpa Laporte 7 (4\u2032, 24\u2032, 30\u2032, 36\u2032, 39\u2032, 43\u2032, 45\u2032), M Giannantonio 2 (63\u2032, 79\u2032)
YC \u2013 N Cambiasso (56\u2032)<\/p>\n

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USA (14)
TRY \u2013 S Ofa (65\u2032), G Holder (70\u2032)
CON \u2013 D Cadden 2 (66\u2032, 71\u2032)
YC \u2013 S Huntley (25\u2032)<\/p>\n

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\"\" LINE-UPS<\/p>\n

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ARGENTINA
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

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

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USA
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

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

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\"\" ARGENTINA \u2013 LARGEST WINS AT JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP<\/p>\n

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Argentina 78-14 USA (2026)<\/p>\n

Margin: +64
\nScorers: Simon Pfister (3), Bautista Benavides, Pedro Coll, Manuel Cuneo Camargo, Tom\u00e1s Dande, Federico Serpa Laporte, Benjam\u00edn Ordiz Yujnovsky, Bautista Lescano, Ram\u00f3n Fern\u00e1ndez, Juan Preumayr. (Conversions: Federico Serpa Laporte x7, Manuel Giannantonio x2).<\/p>\n

Argentina 46-5 Italy \u00a0(2015)<\/p>\n

Margin: +41
\nScorers: Tom\u00e1s Granella (2), Ignacio Larrague, Javier D\u00edaz, Bautista Delguy, Vittorio Rosti. (Conversions: Domingo Miotti x5. Penalties: Domingo Miotti x2).<\/p>\n

Argentina 52-12 Fiji (2024)<\/p>\n

Margin: +40
\nScorers: Juan Pedro Bernasconi (2), Benjam\u00edn Elizalde, Mateo Fauda, Tom\u00e1s Di Biase, Ignacio Torrado, Facundo Rodr\u00edguez, Agust\u00edn Sarelli. (Conversions: Santino Di Lucca x6).<\/p>\n

Argentina 44-13 Scotland (2013)<\/p>\n

Margin: +31
\nScorers: Santiago Cordero (2), Facundo Gigena, Tom\u00e1s Lavanini, Rodrigo Etchart. (Conversions: Patricio Fern\u00e1ndez x5. Penalties: Patricio Fern\u00e1ndez x3).<\/p>\n

Argentina 49-19 South Africa (2016)<\/p>\n

Margin: +30
\nScorers: Mart\u00edn El\u00edas, Santiago Pulella, Vicente Boronat, Bautista Delguy, Segundo Baldunciel. (Conversions: Mart\u00edn El\u00edas x3, Domingo Miotti. Penalties: Mart\u00edn El\u00edas x4, Domingo Miotti x2).<\/p>\n

Argentina 43-15 Italy (2023)<\/p>\n

Margin: +28
\nScorers: Eliseo Chiavassa (2), Mateo Soler, Valentino Minoyetti, Benjam\u00edn Elizalde. (Conversions: Valentino Dicapua x3. Penalties: Valentino Dicapua x4).<\/p>\n

Argentina 41-14 Fiji (2019)<\/p>\n

Margin: +27
\nScorers: Rodrigo Isgr\u00f3, Gonzalo Garc\u00eda, Ignacio Mendy, Bautista Pedemonte, Jer\u00f3nimo G\u00f3mez Vara. (Conversions: Joaqu\u00edn de la Vega Mend\u00eda x5. Penalties: Joaqu\u00edn de la Vega Mend\u00eda x2).<\/p>\n

Argentina 38-12 Fiji (2014)<\/p>\n

Margin: +26
\nScorers: Emiliano Boffelli, Lautaro B\u00e1varo, Felipe Ruesgas, Tom\u00e1s Granella. (Conversions: Patricio Fern\u00e1ndez x3. Penalties: Patricio Fern\u00e1ndez x4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Argentina delivered a thunderous performance against the USA at the Junior World Championship. Played early on Saturday morning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,364186,760,85,321217,340295],"class_list":["post-763719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-junior-world-championship","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-u20","tag-world-rugby-u20s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763719","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=763719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}