Paraguay Squad for South American Under 19s

The young Yakarés are to play as the home side in the upcoming South American Under 19 Championship and will do so as the lowest ranked side. Visiting Asunción will be the under 19 teams from Brazil, Chile and Uruguay. In other words Paraguay will be hosting the under 19 level players of 50% of the countries included in the proposed Americas Six Nations.

Paraguay will open the 2015 South American Under 19 Championship against Uruguay on August 9 while Brazil will also play that day against Chile. Round two will be played three days later with matches between the winners and losers of the opening round. Round three is to then be played on August 15 with the it serving to determine the final places of all four competitors.

The competition will be played at the Héroes de Curupatyty, Paraguay’s national rugby stadium in Asunción.

Paraguay Squad
Emilio Gorostiaga, Matías Prado, Camilo Blasco, Bernardo Eulerich, Sebastián Vazquez, Francisco Bareiro, José Paredes, Adán Chavez, Rodney Brizuela, Joaquín Auge, Luis Distéfano, Daniel González, Piero Fioro, Federico González e Ignacio Camacho, Alberto Fernández, Jorge Cano, Martín Levit, Samuel Martínez, Benjamín Young, Jaime Rodríguez, Esteban Benítez, Leandro Heyn, Baltazar Rodríguez, Matías Vallejos, Diego Benítez, Alexander Cáceres, Jonhatan Rodríguez, Juan Aldama and Miguel Martínez.

Staff
Eduardo Acosta (Head Coach), Rubén Careaga, Hugo Isasa, Chinako Lares (Trainers), Rodrigo Silguero, Marcos González (Medics), Mario González (Manager)

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