Cobras Bring in Argentine Prop Javier Coronel

Os Cobras have made a change to their 2025 roster. Ahead of the pre-season training at NAR in São Paulo, Javier Coronel has joined the Brazilian professional rugby team. He replaces fellow Argentine Diego Vidal who has been ruled out through injury.

The Brazilian team has an extended roster of 43 players. This is two more than the roster recently named for the Super Rugby Americas 2025 season. Coronel is the notable addition to the roster. The 23-year-old played Super Rugby Americas 2023 and 2024 for Los Pampas.

Coronel is a product of Universitário de La Plata, the same club that produced Italy’s first-ever World Rugby Hall of Famer, Sergio Parisse. Coronel played for the club in 2022, the same year that he also played for Los Jaguares XV in the South American professional league.

The arrival of Coronel in São Paulo comes with Diego Vidal out for the season. Coronel is thus one of the five Cobras players not eligible to play for Brazil. The others are New Zealander Aoturoa Seeling and Argentines Augusto Guillamondegui, Manuel Todaro and Los Pumas 7’s veteran Fernando Luna.

In Addition to Coronel replacing Vidal, the roster also sees flanker Luiz Felizardo out. He is replaced by Bruno Chinedu from SPAC in São Paulo. Fullback Lyan Aquino from Jacareí has been included from the Brazilian juniors as has center Danilo Messias from Maringá.

 

COBRAS ROSTER -SUPER RUGBY AMERICAS 2025

FRONT-ROW
Brendon Alves
João Guilherme Arraez
Henrique Ferreira
Vicente Galvão
João Lucas Marino
Endy Willian Pinheiro
Aoturoa Seeling
Tiago Santos
Aquiles Schlüter
Javier Coronel

SECOND-ROW
Cleber Dias
Ben Donald
Hélder Bryan Lúcio
Gabriel Oliveira
Gabriel Paganini

BACK-ROW
André Arruda
Matheus Cláudio
Adrio de Melo
Bruno Chinedu
Rodolfo Martins
Renato Santos
Rafael Teixeira
Manuel Todaro

FLY HALF
João Amaral
Nicolas Azevedo
Felipe Gonçalves
Augusto Guillamondegui
Aramis Padilla
Lucas Spago
Rodrigo Santos

CENTER
Moisés Duque
Fernando Luna
Lorenzo Massari Temer
Danilo Messias
Andrei Henrique Santana
Victor Silva
Robert Tenório

WING
Daniel Lima
Sérgio Luna
Widson Menezes
Ariel Rodrigues

FULLBACK
Lyan Aquino
Lucas Tranquez