Elisalex

The Argentine Rugby Union had decided that our national rugby team should be professional from now on. During a press conference, which took place yesterday Alejandro Risler the chairman of the Rugby Union with Hugo Porta and other members of the board, with the presence of most of the Club members of the Union had decided unanimously that our national team will became professional, they had added that only the national team will be in this category, the rest of the players, some 65,000 will continue playing rugby amateur but not professional Most of the clubs agreed that we shall keep amateurism at a national level, to maintain the old spirit of rugby, which gave us the third place in the recent World Cup. Only those chosen to play internationally will be professional, if possible in the Six Nations championship or the Three Nations Tournament in the Southern Hemisphere. Some big companies had offered already to the UAR their sponsorship to our Pumas, just one large multinational company related to the sport industry had offered an undisclosed amount of money of many million dollars for the Pumas if they use the logo of the company in their shirts. The Argentine Rugby Union said that some eighty players had already been chosen, considering their outstanding performance in our national championships, and some thirty five others as well, who are playing abroad with great success. These players will be “le corp d’Élite”, which will start to play internationally soon. Most of the Argentine rugby leaders anticipate that our Pumas will play in Europe in the Six Nations Cup, instead of playing in with Southern Hemisphere’s countries like Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. They feel that our players will be more comfortable playing in Europe. The UAR will send an official letter to the IRB this December requesting the inclusion of Los Pumas in the international agenda of this institution.

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Elisabeth Sophia Alexandra Elisalex a great fan of our Argentine Pumas