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Pumas Patricio Albacete and Facundo Isa are to start for the Barbarians vs England on Sunday. The international select side includes a star-studded list of players from the Aviva Premiership, Guinness Pro 12 and Top 14 competitions.
Albacete will play in his usual position of second-row. The now-former Toulouse lock is to be joined by longtime club mates Yann David, Thierry Dusautoir and Census Johnston in the starting lineup. Dusautoir will captain the side from flanker.
Isa will play from there back of the scrum. He is to form a lethal back-row trio together with Dusautoir and Steffon Armitage. The former English flanker, Armitage, is from Trinidad & Tobago.
Unwanted England fullback Alex Goode joins Armitage in the starting lineup. Covering fullback and wing from the bench is Puma Horacio Agulla. He has played his final match for Castres and remains under contract until June 30. He is then to return to Hindú.
BARBARIANS
15 Alex Goode, 14 Timoci Nagusa, 13 Yann David, 12 Frans Steyn, 11 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 10 Ian Madigan, 9 Kahn Fotuali’i, 8 Facundo Isa, 7 Steffon Armitage, 6 Thierry Dusautoir (capt.), 5 Jeremy Thrush, 4 Patricio Albacete, 3 Census Johnston, 2 Richard Hibbard, 1 Mikheil Nariashvili
Replacements: 16 Schalk Brits, 17 Ben Franks, 18 WP Nel, 19 Joe Tekori, 20 Gillian Galan, 21 Ruan Pienaar, 22 Robbie Fruean, 23 Horacio Agulla
