{"id":914723,"date":"2026-10-03T14:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/914723\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T14:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:10:13","slug":"romania-edge-out-romania-at-u20-junior-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/914723\/","title":{"rendered":"Romania Edge Out Romania at u20 Junior Challenger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Romania edged out Brazil on the opening day of the World Rugby Junior Challenger. Played in Santiago del Chile on Friday, Romania were 27-26 winners.<\/p>\n

The match-up was between two highly contrasting rugby countries. On the one hand there was Rugby World Cup regulars Romania. While, on the other hand was Os Curumins. Brazil has never qualified for a Men\u2019s Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n

Romania opened the scoring with an early penalty to Mihai-Antonio Mitrea. Brazil responded with two penalties landed by Isac Lopes. The 6-3 included Brazil getting the better of the Eastern Europeans in the contact area.<\/p>\n

The first try saw the South Americans over for a fantastic score featuring high-speed play and execution. Daniel Caetano went over with Tob\u00edas Duret providing the assist.<\/p>\n

Romania hit-back swiftly and sharply with back-to-back tries. Center Alexandru Boldor and fullback Edward Br\u0103\u0219nean each scored to give Romania the lead. However, the first-half ended with Brazil leading 16-15 after a maul try scored by hooker T\u00falio Oliveira.<\/p>\n

The Romanians regained the lead with a flashy try to Drago\u0219 Tatomir. Then, late in the third quarter, T\u00falio Oliveira scored a second try, this time doing so from a pick-and-go.<\/p>\n

The game was balanced as the final quarter started and concluded. Romania scored the game\u2019s final try to open a four point lead. Cau\u00e3 Ten\u00f3rio then landed a penalty to cut the gap to a single point. It remained as such until the final whistle.<\/p>\n

Round two of the World Rugby Junior Challenger in Santiago will be played on Wednesday, October 07. Brazil will take-on Hong Kong while Romania face Chile.<\/p>\n

\"\"Foto: Chile Rugby<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

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

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BRAZIL (26)
TRY \u2013 T Oliveira (2), D Caetano
CON \u2013 I Lopes
PEN \u2013 \u00a0I Lopes, C Ten\u00f3rio<\/p>\n

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ROMANIA (27)
TRY \u2013 A Boldor (2), E Br\u0103\u0219nean, D Tatomir
CON \u2013 Mitrea (2)
PEN \u2013 Mitrea (1)<\/p>\n

\"\"TEAMS<\/p>\n

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BRAZIL
15 Cau\u00e3 Ten\u00f3rio, 14 Daniel Caetano, 13 Tob\u00edas Duret 12 Kleber Baracho, 11 Guilherme Landim, 10 Isac Lopes, 9 Gustavo Gon\u00e7alves, 8 Francisco da Ros (c), 7 Gabriel Mohallem, 6 Segundo Duret, 5 Iago Ara\u00fajo, 4 Cau\u00e3 Oliveira, 3 Derick Estev\u00e3o, 2 T\u00falio Oliveira, 1 Rafael Jesus<\/p>\n

Replacements: 16 Valentin Reyes, 17 Marcus Furini, 18 Rodrigo Ramos, 19 Lucas Neves, 20 Louis Moroni, 21\u00a0 Rafael Cavalcante, 22 Carlos Eduardo Andrade, 23 Abra\u00e3o Avelino<\/p>\n

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ROMANIA
15 Edward Br\u0103\u0219nean, 14 Raul Pop, 13 Mihai-Antonio Mitrea, 12 Alexandru Boldor, 11 \u0218tefan \u2013 Ionu\u021b Firic\u0103, 10 Andrei Carp, 9 Drago\u0219 Tatomir, 8 Florentin P\u00eendaru, 7 Ionu\u021b Mati\u0219, 6 Leontin Moroianu, 5 Gabriel Mic, 4 Mihai-Augustin Vlasa, 3 Alexandru Berbec, 2 Damian Albert, 1 Alexandru Todic\u0103<\/p>\n

Replacements: 16 Albert Ianis, 17 George Marghioala, 18 Rare\u0219 Jug\u0103naru, 19 Victor S\u00e2ncr\u0103ian, 20 Matei Niculai, 21 Viorel Tirli, 22 David Petrescu, 23 Teodor Cioriciu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Romania edged out Brazil on the opening day of the World Rugby Junior Challenger. Played in Santiago del…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,321217,313654,482023],"class_list":["post-914723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-u20","tag-u20-challenger-cup","tag-world-rugby-challenger-cup-u20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914723","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=914723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}