Argentina XV national rugby union team

Argentina Jaguars

Union	Unión Argentina de Rugby
Nickname(s)	Los Jaguares (The Jaguars)
Emblem(s)	Yaguareté (South American jaguar)
Coach(es)	Felipe Contepomi Ricardo Le Fort
Captain(s)	Gonzalo Bertranou
Team kit Change kit
First international
Argentina XV 23-11 Chile  (26 September 1965)
Largest win
Paraguay 0 - 152 Argentina A  (1 May 2002)
Largest defeat
Argentina A 8-30  Romania (12 June 2013)

Argentina XV at a 2015 test match versus Uruguay's Teros

The Argentina A national rugby union team, also known as Argentina Jaguars and as Argentina XV national rugby union team, in the past, are the second national rugby union team in Argentina after the main national side.

They already represented Argentina at the South American Rugby Championship, in 2001, 2002, 2005, 2009 and 2011. Argentina second side won all the South American competitions they have entered and never were defeated yet by another country in these tournaments.

They competed in the Nations Cup in 2006 and 2007, winning the tournament in 2006, and in the Churchill Cup in 2008 and 2009. They've played alongside the full national teams of Namibia, Romania, Georgia, the United States, and Canada as well as other second national teams like Italy A, the Emerging Springboks, and the England Saxons. They have also competed in a number of South American tournaments and will compete against North American teams in the Americas Rugby Championship. In 2014 they participated in the IRB Tbilisi Cup.^[1]

Results

Churchill Cup

• 2005: 2nd
• 2008: 4th
• 2009: 3rd

Nations Cup / Tbilisi Cup

• 2006: 1st
• 2007: 2nd
• 2010: 4th
• 2011: 3rd
• 2012: 2nd
• 2013: 3rd
• 2014: 1st
• 2015: 2nd

Americas Rugby Championship

• 1st in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2016.

UruCup

• 2015: 1st.

Current squad

Jaguars squad for the 2015 World Rugby Nations Cup.^[2]

Head Coach: Felipe Contepomi and Ricardo Le Fort

Caps Updated: 3 June 2015

Note: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by World Rugby.

Player Position Date of Birth (Age) Caps Club/province Tomás Baravalle Hooker 14 December 1990 1 Jockey Club Facundo Bosch Hooker 8 August 1991 0 C.U.B.A. Santiago García Botta Prop 19 June 1992 0 Belgrano Lucas Martínez Prop 14 July 1989 0 Lomas Athletic Nicolás Mirande Prop 26 December 1989 0 Tucumán Guido Randisi Prop 0 Duendes Roberto Tejerizo Prop 15 April 1988 4 Tucumán Lawn Tennis Gerónimo Albertario Lock 24 November 1987 2 Pucará Franco Baldoni Lock 31 July 1992 0 Buenos Aires Aníbal Panceyra Garrido Lock 23 October 1988 0 Tala Manuel Plaza Lock 4 January 1996 1 Jockey Club Martín Chiappesoni Flanker 0 Atlético Rosario Lucas Maguire Flanker 26 January 1991 1 C.U.B.A. Gonzalo Paulín Flanker 0 Tala Miguel Urtubey Number 8 6 April 1991 0 Newman Gonzalo Bertranou (c) Scrum-half 31 December 1993 0 Los Tordos Marcos Bollini Scrum-half 18 August 1991 0 Newman Cristian Nacassian Fly-half 0 Tala Juan León Novillo Fly-half 8 June 1992 2 Tucumán Ignacio Brex Centre 26 May 1992 0 San Cirano Juan Cappiello Centre 4 March 1992 3 Pucará Brian Ormson Centre 23 March 1991 0 Pucará Joaquín Paz Centre 20 October 1993 0 Córdoba Bautista Álvarez Wing 0 Hindú Augusto López Wing 25 January 1991 0 Tucumán Franco Cuaranta Fullback 23 May 1992 0 Tala See also Pampas XV Jaguares (Super Rugby) References "Georgia to host Tbilisi Cup 2014". International Rugby Board. 4 April 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2014. Plantel de Argentina XV para la Nations Cup External links Official website