Elisalex

Dear Luke or Matt, I hope that you are wrong in your predictions for tomorrow’s semi-final between Argentina and South Africa, we are supporting down here with all our hearts and minds our dear Pumas, and we are praying for a victory, they deserve it. They had struggled a lot to reach this instance and they and we will not give up now. I am aware that for Europeans, Australians, South Africans and others just the fact that our team had reached the semi-final is something not easy to accept. There is still a high degree of contempt towards our Pumas and Argentina amongst many of you, not your case indeed. But we shall overcame all those preconceptions arising from a total lack of knowledge of how rugby has been consistently growing every year in Argentina, a country where we have thousands of players now in some three hundreds clubs throughout our Southern Cone of America. As I said before rugby started almost a hundred and a half years ago, thanks to the Scots (Saint Andrew’s Scot School founded in 1852), the English community (St. Georges School) and the Irish new comers. But these seeds helped to propagate the passion for rugby amongst other people in this country. We are praying to Our Lord and Our Lady that they will give us as a chance of reaching the final, where we shall fact England. By the way, I congratulate the English team for their victory today in Paris. If we win tomorrow well be quite interesting to watch such final next weekend in Paris, where some 20 thousands Argentines travelled from here and from other countries to support our team. My forecast for tomorrow is a narrow but clear VICTORY FOR OUR PUMAS GOD BLESS THEM AND OUR LADY WILL PROTECT THEM. In spite of being extremely tired they will fight as the Spartans fought against Persia and they will prevail, at least this is my hope and what all of us here desire, will be fantastic for Argentine rugby and from now on, nobody will see our teams as “inferiors”, just because they are from South America. Last but not least, I know how well the Springboks play but we had defeated them in the past and I know how committed are Pichot, Contempomi, Hernandez and Corleto in this big challenge, they will play as gentlemen and will show the whole world that our rugby is one of the best, you can take it for granted. Thanks to everybody and to you especially my dear Scottish friend, what a wonderful country you have, this spring I will be in Edinburgh and other places for some weeks, I want to see some rugby games over there with my nephews and nieces who will travel with us and I am looking forward to see Paterson and the Lamont brothers in action. Pumas will win for 8 points, we shall wait and see or watch no?