The venues where Los Pumas will host the Rugby Championship have been confirmed: an unprecedented stadium and a long-awaited return

The official racing calendar will take place from 10 to 17 August The Pumas TO New Zelandwith matches inserted Wellington AND Auckland for him Rugby Championship. Upon his return the team will play against Australia their first home Test in the Southern Hemisphere tournament. It will be August 31st to inaugurate the statistics at Stadium UNO, Students from La Plata.

The second match against Wallabies will take place on September 7, in Santa Fe, on the field of Colon. That stadium will host Los Pumas for the sixth time, following home matches in 2007, 2012, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

The last performance of the national team for that tournament in our country during 2024 is scheduled for September 21st, against Springbokthe last World Champions, at the Único Madre de Ciudades stadium in Santiago del Estero, which had already received the team before the World Cup in France.

The new setting is that of Estudiantes, although rugby was originally part of the disciplines practiced in the club. He Click It has never hosted an international match, despite Jorge Luis Hirschi – the stadium is named after him – and his brother Oscar were part of the rugby team in 1912, together with, among others, Antonio Bilbao La Vieja, multiple CASI champion. .

Contepomi’s debut

But the era of Filippo Contepomi as head coach of the Argentine rugby team he will be first FranceIn Mendoza. On July 6th, The Pumas They will receive them at the Malvinas Argentinas stadium, in the first of three matches of the July international window, which includes a rematch a week later on the Vélez pitch. The test match that closes the series will be against Maldonado Uruguay.

France is the team that Argentina has faced the most times and their team will return to the country for the eighteenth time. The Europeans’ first tour to these latitudes dates back to 1949 and since then they have faced each other 53 times.

After the Mendoza crossing, the delegations will move to Buenos Aires, where the rematch will be played. The meeting is at the Vélez stadium on July 13th and, like in Cuyo, kick-off is scheduled for 4pm.

Seven days later, the rival will be different: Los Pumas will cross the Río de la Plata to face Uruguay in Maldonado. Rodolfo Ambrosio of Córdoba will be the main coach of the The Teroswho had not faced an Argentine national team since 16 May 2015, before the World Cup of that year, when the Argentine national team – in its version Argentina XV– won 36-14 in the second round of the CONSUR Cup, in Montevideo.

There are already two precedents at the Maldonado Campus where the match will take place: the last on 17 February 2018, for the Américas Rugby Championship, when the alternative team to Los Pumas – coached by Contepomi – beat Uruguay 34-17. The precedent, two years earlier, for the same competition when the same team won 24-21, with Pablo Bouza di Rosario as coach.