The Pumas and the dream of their own home: what property in Cardales will be ready before the next Rugby World Cup?

The Argentine Rugby Union (UAR) bought 10 hectares in the municipality of Cardales, province of Buenos Aires, where it will be located National Rugby Center (CNR) in which all the teams of that discipline will work. Five natural grass fields and one synthetic grass field are planned, as well as a gym and a multipurpose building.

The complex will have a main building of almost 11 thousand square meters spread over two floors, where the UAR sports offices, medical offices, special spaces for kinesiology, psychology and athlete nutrition will operate.

It will also have a very complex gym, changing rooms and will have rooms for training courses, an auditorium, a dining room, rooms to accommodate around 60 athletes, rest and recreation rooms, video rooms and a studio for multimedia productions. It will also have a semi-covered area for a 200 m2 barbecue area and a storage room three times larger.

“Argentine rugby had long been looking for and deserved to have its own cutting-edge place where it could concentrate all its activities. We all want our teams to have the maximum resources available to plan their development, and we also want this sport to grow”, underlined the president of the UAR, Gabriel Travaglini.

The property is located at kilometer 4 of Avenida Libertador San Martín (Road 4), in Los Cardales, at kilometer 61 of National Road 9. The planned works will be financed with resources granted by the world rugby and a tender process will be opened to select the construction company that will complete the work in two and a half years.

Once the Ingeniero Maschwitz property where it operates was inaugurated Home of the Pumas, it will no longer be rented and the entire business will move to Cardales. “The property will be available to all sectors of the Union, from those who deal with the grassroots of this game (of the 574 clubs), to the thousands of volunteers who collaborate in different areas, to the referees, to the athletic trainers and to the Los Angeles The Pumas team”, indicated the entity in a press release.

The CNR will host all the teams and their respective technical bodies that are part of the UAR: in addition to Los Pumas, Las Yaguaretés, Los Pumas 7’s, Los Pumitas, Pampas, Argentina XV and the Academies. To be, the property that the UAR owns in Cardales…