{"id":84800,"date":"2025-08-21T11:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/84800\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T11:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:12:06","slug":"harlequins-sign-boris-wenger-from-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/84800\/","title":{"rendered":"Harlequins Sign Boris Wenger from Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boris Wenger is the latest Argentine to secure his playing future in England. The 23-year-old front-rower from Villa Maria in C\u00f3rdoba province has signed for the Harlequins for the 2025-2026 season<\/a>. The London-based club will be Wenger\u2019s first foreign professional club.<\/p>\n

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\"\"PLAYER BACKGROUND<\/p>\n

Wenger plays at loose head prop but has also played hooker in Super Rugby Americas. He played for Dogos in 2023-2024, converting from hooker to loose head prop with great success in 2024. He was a part of the championship winning team that year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Los Dogos was Wenger\u2019s second Super Rugby Americas team. He played for Colombia\u2019s Cafeteros in the 2022 season. He was replacement hooker for the Colombian team in the Semi Finals against Pe\u00f1arol<\/a> in his rookie season. Wenger is noted for his ball-carrying ability. He is also reliable in the set-piece and is a busy defender.<\/p>\n

Wenger is a product of Jockey Club in his hometown of Villa Mar\u00eda. The city is the third largest in C\u00f3rdoba province. Leading rugby players are identified and go through the High Performance system which was the case of Wenger who played for Los Pumitas before being recruited for Super Rugby Americas.<\/p>\n

\"\"photo: Gaspafotos \/ SRA<\/p>\n

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\"\"LOS PUMAS DEBUT<\/p>\n

Wenger was one of eight uncapped SRA players selected by Felipe Contepomi to prepare to face the British & Irish Lions<\/a>. \u00a0He was joined by Luciano Asevedo, Leonel Oviedo, Agust\u00edn Moyano, Sim\u00f3n Ben\u00edtez Cruz, Nicol\u00e1s Roger, Faustino S\u00e1nchez Valarolo and Santiago Pernas from Super Rugby Americas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Joaqu\u00edn Moro was also included. He had made his test debut against Uruguay in July, 2024. Moro (Pampas) was a replacement against the British & Irish Lions as were Boris Wenger (Dogos), and Sim\u00f3n Ben\u00edtez Cruz (Tarucas). Wenger and Ben\u00edtez Cruz debuted for Los Pumas in the match though test caps were not awarded. Ben\u00edtez Cruz recently signed for English Premiership side Newcastle Red Bulls<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Foto Cr\u00e9dito: Prensa UAR<\/p>\n

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Argentina fielded debutants against the British & Irish Lions. Bautista Bernasconi, Benjam\u00edn Grondona, and Benjam\u00edn Elizalde were also all on the roster as United Rugby Championship (URC) and English Premiership club players. Of them, Bernasconi received game time in the win in Dublin, Ireland.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\"\"HARLEQUINS PUMAS<\/p>\n

Wenger will join two countrymen at the Harlequins: second-rower Guido Petti<\/a> and winger Rodrigo Isgr\u00f3<\/a>. The former joins the Harlequins for the upcoming season from Bordeaux while the latter played his rookie campaign for the Harlequins in the 2024-2025 season.<\/p>\n

Former Pumas to play for the Harlequins include loose head prop Santiago Garc\u00eda Botta, second-rowers Pablo Bouza and Tom\u00e1s Vallejos, scrum-half Mart\u00edn Landajo, center Gonzalo Tiesi\u00a0and winger Gonzalo Camacho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boris Wenger is the latest Argentine to secure his playing future in England. The 23-year-old front-rower from Villa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-84800","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\/84800","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=84800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}