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Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Paris, New York, Bariloche
Posts: 79
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Perhaps you are right, but at this time of the evening and with some guests coming home for dinner, I am not in position to argue with you about what should be much better to play in Europe or with the NZ's Aussies and South Africans, but as far as I know they don't want us in the Southern Hemisphere. But we have problems in Europe as well, we have some hope about England, Scotland and Ireland backing us with the IRB, the meeting is quite soon. Hugo Porta wants us there and not in the south. You might say, but you are a country of the Southern Hemisphere, but we believe that our ties with Europe from all points of view are deeply stronger.I am myself completely European, mix of Austrians, Irish, Scots, Basques, French and others, and I have an Austrian passport as millions of Argentineans as well. When we travel in general we choose Europe not SA or any Asian country. Quite obvious there are many travelling everywhere. But in connection with sports, where we feel comfortable, only in Europe. As I had mentioned plenty of times, we received rugby, football, polo, tennis, ski from Europe. Our upper classes and middle classes send their kids to schools where they will learn English, or perhaps, German (my family's language) French and Italian. I don't know too many Argentineans playing rugby in Australia, New Zealand or South Africa, but hundreds in Europe, in spite of the fact that just some twenty are playing with the big clubs. I am more afraid of the French clubs and Union than anyother one in the Old Continent, I had been in Paris recently, and with my perfect French I went to Stade Francais and they asked me where I am from, first I said from Argentina, nice country but forget it about playing here we are enough, with six nations is too much. Italy has more right to play there than us? I don't think so, they don't play as well as we do. They don't have these three wonderful guys who are Augstin Pichot, Felipe Contempomi and Juan Martin Hernandez, you can add Ignacio Corleto and Martin Schustermann who is playing with the Leicester Tigers since this week, and soon Juan Martin will join them, if the Stade let him. So my good friend as you can see we are prepare to struggle with all our forces, and with lots of money as well, we have the support of four large multinationals for our Pumas, and they will back our petition to the IRB. Thanks a lot for your comments, yours
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Elisabeth Sophia Alexandra Elisalex a great fan of our Argentine Pumas
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