{"id":700108,"date":"2026-07-19T15:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T15:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/700108\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T15:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T15:14:20","slug":"nations-championship-argentina-coach-felipe-contepomi-accuses-england-of-lack-of-respect-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/700108\/","title":{"rendered":"Nations Championship: Argentina coach Felipe Contepomi accuses England of &#8216;lack of respect&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Argentina heach coach Felipe Contepomi walked out of his news conference after the 31-24 defeat by England in the Nations Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said England&#8217;s celebrations in the changing room next door showed a &#8220;lack of respect&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Contepomi had asked an England representative to stop the noise of the music and celebrations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Argentina were denied a try by the television match official in the final play of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cn4ny04qnv0o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">chaotic match<\/a> in Santiago del Estero.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England cruised to a 19-3 lead at half-time before Argentina, who wore replicas of the football team&#8217;s 1986 World Cup kit, fought back in the second half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four England players were shown yellow cards after the break, with former scrum-half Matt Dawson describing their discipline as &#8220;verging on comical&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Argentina came from behind to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/c77yp11e4r6t\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beat England 2-1<\/a> in the football World Cup semi-finals on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England are third in the northern hemisphere group in the Nations Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-700108","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}