Argentina XV roster weakened for final two World Cup Warm-Up matches

The Argentina XV roster has been altered for the third and fourth Rugby World Cup warm-up matches. With the Argentine roster confirmed for the World Cup the Argentina XV no longer has Pumas on it. As such a weakened roster will face Uruguay and Chile in the upcoming matches.

The Argentina XV’s next match will be against Uruguay on Friday, August 18. The team will travel to Montevideo for the match before flying to Chile to face Los Còndores in Temuco. Both fixtures are to be farewell’s ahead of the Uruguayans and Chileans traveling to France for the World Cup.

Players for the remaining matches are from Super Rugby Americas and Luciano González from Los Pumas 7’s. Bautista Delguy, Joaquín Oviedo, Rodrigo Isgró, Sebastián Cancelliere, Mayco Vivas, Facundo Bosch and Santiago Medrano are no longer on the roster.

ARGENTINA XV – ROSTER

LOOSE HEAD
Javier Corvalán
Matías Medrano
Santiago Pulella

HOOKER
Ramiro Gurovich
Boris Wenger

TIGHT HEAD
Javier Coronel
Renzo Zanella

SECOND-ROW
Lorenzo Colidio
Federico Lavanini
Lautaro Simes

BACK-ROW
Manuel Bernstein
Eliseo Chiavassa
Efraín Elías
Rodrigo Fernández Criado
Eliseo Fourcade
Benjamín Grondona

SCRUM-HALF
Ignacio Inchauspe
Rafael Iriate

FLY HALF
Joaquín de la Vega Mendía (capt.)
Julián Hernández

CENTER
Juan Pablo Castro
Luciano González
Agustín Segura

WING
Lautaro Cipriani
Benjamín Elizalde

FULLBACK
Mateo Soler

 

ARGENTINA XV – RWC WARM-UP TOUR

Jul 29   27-34  (Montevideo, UY)

Aug 05 13-40 (Antofagasta, CL)

Aug 18   vs   (Montevideo, UY)

Aug 26 vs   (Temuco, CL)