{"id":557341,"date":"2026-07-19T11:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/557341\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T11:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:10:08","slug":"nations-championship-argentina-coach-felipe-contepomi-accuses-england-of-lack-of-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/557341\/","title":{"rendered":"Nations Championship: Argentina coach Felipe Contepomi accuses England of ‘lack of respect’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Argentina heach coach Felipe Contepomi walked out of his news conference after the 31-24 defeat by England in the Nations Championship.<\/p>\n

He said England’s celebrations in the changing room next door showed a “lack of respect”.<\/p>\n

Contepomi had asked an England representative to stop the noise of the music and celebrations.<\/p>\n

Argentina were denied a try by the television match official in the final play of a chaotic match<\/a> in Santiago del Estero.<\/p>\n

England cruised to a 19-3 lead at half-time before Argentina, who wore replicas of the football team’s 1986 World Cup kit, fought back in the second half.<\/p>\n

Four England players were shown yellow cards after the break, with former scrum-half Matt Dawson describing their discipline as “verging on comical”.<\/p>\n

Argentina came from behind to beat England 2-1<\/a> in the football World Cup semi-finals on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

England are third in the northern hemisphere group in the Nations Championship.<\/p>\n

The competition resumes on 6 November and the finals will be held on 28 and 29 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Argentina heach coach Felipe Contepomi walked out of his news conference after the 31-24 defeat by England in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-557341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}