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Tomás Jorge has joined Spanish side Ampo Ordizia. The Argentine fullback makes the move to the Basque Country from Italian side Borsari Baia. The División de Honor club is Jorge’s second professional club; he initially departed Buenos Aires for Italy.
The club confirmed Jorge as a new arrival for the 2020-21 season. The 1.81m and 82kg outside back is one of four new arrivals. The others are Australian prop Harrison Rorke, hooker Diego Carvajales, and South African second-rower Keegan Munro.
The 25-year-old Jorge has regional and national honors. They include playing for Argentina u18’s, Buenos Aires u18’s, Buenos Aires 7’s, Buenos Aires province and the Argentina XV, the country’s official ‘next of XV’.
Jorge comes from the Pucará club, a factory of talent for Los Pumas over the years. Among Pucara’s Pumas are Rimas Álvarez Kairelis, Lucas Borges, Bautista Delguy, Lucas González Amorosino, Aítor Otaño, and Gustavo Jorge.
Additional names from Pucará are NOLA Gold’s Julián Domínguez; Lucas Mensa, Pablo Dimcheff and Lucas Santa Cruz of Los Ceibos; plus former Jaguar Manuel Montero who played SLAR for the Olímpia Lions.
Of the Pucurá products mentioned Borges, Delguy, Dominguez, González Amorosino, Jorge and Montero are all outside backs. The same is true of Tomás Jorge who is the son of Gustavo Jorge.
A Puma from 1989-1994, Gustavo Jorge scored 24 tries in 23 test matches. He scored a try in his final test match which was against the USA in Buenos Aires. That match took place on June 20 1994, six days before Tomás Jorge’s birth.
