{"id":92623,"date":"2025-08-24T15:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/92623\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T15:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:43:08","slug":"albornoz-to-miss-argentinas-rugby-championship-tests-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/92623\/","title":{"rendered":"Albornoz to miss Argentina\u2019s Rugby Championship tests in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">BUENOS AIRES &#8211; Argentina will be without first-choice flyhalf Tomas Albornoz for their two Rugby Championship clashes against Australia next month after he dislocated a finger at the weekend, the Argentine Rugby Union said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Albornoz went off early on Saturday after a teammate stood on his hand in open play in Argentina\u2019s historic 29-23 win over New Zealand in Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">It was the first home victory for the Pumas over the All Blacks and handed Argentina hope of being Rugby Championship contenders this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">But the 27-year-old Albornoz being sidelined for the clashes in Townsville on September 6 and Sydney one week later will be a huge blow considering he has played a huge part in the team&#8217;s recent success. REUTERS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUENOS AIRES &#8211; Argentina will be without first-choice flyhalf Tomas Albornoz for their two Rugby Championship clashes against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-92623","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\/92623","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=92623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}