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Tomás Jorge has traded one Spanish side for another. The Argentine fullback has signed for El Salvador from Ordizia. The Spanish club has also signed Lucas Favre. The two Argentine new arrivals come a day after the club signed Lucas Santa Cruz, also from the Olímpia Lions.
The trio have all represented Argentina but don’t in test matches. 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.
Lucas Santa Cruz is also from Pucará. Additional names from Pucará are NOLA Gold’s Julián Domínguez; Mont de Marsan’s Lucas Mensa, Bordeaux’s Pablo Dimcheff and former Jaguar Manuel Montero who plays for the Toronto Arrows.
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.
Lucas Favre plays tight head prop. His involvement with the Olímpia Lions saw him playing close to Resistencia in Argentina’s north; his home town. He is a rugby product of Lomas Athletic Club in Buenos Aires. The club has also produced notable names such as Santiago Gómez Cora, Argentina’s all-time leading scorer in Rugby 7’s.
