{"id":783152,"date":"2026-07-06T18:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/783152\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T18:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:24:11","slug":"paraguay-open-2026-with-road-defeat-against-chile-xv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/783152\/","title":{"rendered":"Paraguay Open 2026 with road defeat against Chile XV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chile XV had home advantage against Paraguay in an international meeting on Sunday. Played at the\u00a0Chilean Centro de Alto Rendimiento del Rugby (CARR) in La Reina, Chile, the Chile XV were 52-19 winners.<\/p>\n<p>The match was organized during the July International window while Chile\u2019s test team, Los C\u00f3ndores, are is busy playing in there World Rugby Nations Cup. Los C\u00f3ndores defeated Romania in a test match in Santiago on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The scheduling of Chile XV on the same weekend was not an error; rather, it was a strategic decision made by the governing body, Chile Rugby. This was done as part of Chile Rugby\u2019s High Performance program and direction. Chile is moving towards introducing a second Super Rugby Americas (SRA) franchise for the 2026 season. The separation of players into two teams is a policy of testing the waters.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65104\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753579808_157_logo-chile-thumbnail-2020.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\"  \/><br \/>CHILE XV<br \/>1 Norman Aguayo, 2 Augusto Bohme, 3 Baltazar Gurruchaga, 4 Pharel Mu\u00f1oz, 5 Santiago Valenzuela, 6 \u00a0Thomas Cooper, 7 Augusto Villanueva, 8 Joaqu\u00edn Milesi, 9 Sebasti\u00e1n Bianchi (capt.), 10 Juan Cruz Reyes, 11 Marco Alvano, 12 Felipe M\u00e9ndez, 13 Rodrigo Araya, 14 Luca Strabucchi, 15 Mart\u00edn Escobar<\/p>\n<p>Replacements: 16 Rafael Silva, 17 Benjam\u00edn Moreno, 18 Max Kennedy, 19 Fabian Lagos, 20 Cristobal Soto, 21 Santiago Wood, 22 Lucas Tul\u00f3n, 23 Juli\u00e1n Troncoso<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/logo-paraguay-thumbnail-2021.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\"  \/><br \/>PARAGUAY<br \/>1 Camilo Blasco, 2 Agust\u00edn Ben\u00edtez, 3 Enrique Quinteros, 4 Nahuel Kacerosky, 5 Carlos Mart\u00edns, 6 Juan Mart\u00edn Sebriano, 7 Ariel N\u00fa\u00f1ez, 8 Leonardo Segovia, 9 Diego Mi\u00f1o, 10 Thomas Guzm\u00e1n, 11 Facundo Paiva, 12 Sebasti\u00e1n Urbieta, 13 Gianfranco Parodi, 14 Arturo L\u00f3pez, 15 Juan \u00c1vila<\/p>\n<p>Replacements: 16 Lucas Oto\u00f1o, 17 Gast\u00f3n Salvi, 18 Estefano Aranda, 19 Javier P\u00e9rez, 20 Mat\u00edas Alcaraz, 21 Agust\u00edn Dupuy, 22 Patricio Cabrera, 23 Luis Herreira<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chile XV had home advantage against Paraguay in an international meeting on Sunday. Played at the\u00a0Chilean Centro&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,224900,760,85,240178,446],"class_list":["post-783152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-july-internationals","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-sudamerica-rugby","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783152","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=783152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}