Friday, Argentina won the first match of the Rugby World Cup against France was playing at home, a mythical battle. Carried an article on the 'Pumas'.
The rugby player is very very spectacular, even for those who do not know the rules. I myself have met people who had discovered the sport by one day and already I was thrilled. " Signed: Ernesto "What" Guevara. He, the commander, the querida presencia. The icon is a revolutionary. Suffering from asthma yet able to fly three-quarters overwhelming, tackles the abstruse. Technically questionable, but effective and generous. Like all his life, including military campaigns. Fuser called him, portmanteau of "Furious Serna," the second family name of Ernest, when he played in San Isidro in Buenos Aires - the famous club from which even Marcelo Loffreda, the current coach of Argentina - and later in 'Atalaya. Plate tirelessly until the dawn of the '50s, then stopped him and asthma invented publisher, with the pseudonym Chang-Cho, a magazine of rugby, "Tackle." The rest of the story is now noto.I Pumas What to love it. The journalist and the soldier. A team revolutionary and socialist self-managed and incazzereccia. Guerrilla, nomadic, romantic and mangy. Friday the Argentines have turned the world of rugby, playing at the Stade de France, on the day of a party booked for years, the home side. They were pressed, surprised, asphyxiated with 'garra' with the fury and the desire to win a scrum legendary for his drive and his carcass. A la guerre comme a la guerre, anyway. "The Argentines have played against France with hearts, heads and balls - blue coach Pierre Berbizier sighs thinking about the gauchos and the landslide victory of Italy controgli All Blacks - We instead we head into the air, a little 'heart, but we played with no balls. " Brutal but clear. Perhaps this is why the Pumas, who have won 5 of last 6 match with France, which this year have beaten even the English at home (not included among the first team to do that 8 large), and are now gone up to 5 th place of the ranking of countries and years are seen slamming the door in the face of the TriNations. Too bad, so good. Best not to help them improve. Berbizier but also difficult to accept the system's internal management team. "For six years we have self-appointed leaders of the group - says Mario Ledesma, hooker -. We are, Agustin (Pichot), Nacho (Fernandez Lobbe), Chalo (Gonzalo Longo), Martin (Durand) and Felipe (Contepomi). The Big 6. Not because our ego is too big, but because we said that we should be the ones to take a step forward to protect the young. We prefer to be the ones to receive fines or deportation. " System "very socialist," as claimed by Contepomi, the Leinster star of the Irish selection, a salary of about € 200 000 per year. The need for a committee created by the split personality of Argentine rugby: sport born rich, middle-class as football was proletarian, imported by the British in Buenos Aires in the late nineteenth century. Domestically, the situation has not changed much, and amateurism is defended by purists, while the development of professionalism oval in Europe has formed a legion of migrant luxury, well paid by the big clubs in England and France, who loves to knit biancoceleste death but can not stand the logic of the UAR, the Federation of Argentina. "The money should not come in rugby - says Rodolfo O'Reilly, a former national coach - because we would lose our core values: sacrifice for others, solidarity, education." I love the professional and national solidarity, but do not want to give up bank accounts. In June 2006, the revolutionaries of the tackle even proclaimed a strike 10 days without training, on the eve of two important Test match with Wales. Then he took to the field and they won both matches. In November, another challenge. Outraged by the Federales, and after the historic victory against England in Twickenham had not come down to congratulate them in the locker room, they waited for the official banquet with a vengeance. As soon as the UAR president Alejandro Risler's stood up to deliver the keynote address before the British in tuxedos, the team has risen from the table, and left the room. "We had to go to pee," was the official excuse. Proud, hard. But patriots. In the European tour last year they paid their own pockets to the hotel, outraged by the installation indecent, they say, planned by the Federation. A team that is accustomed to meet on Monday and play - often winning - on Saturday. A few common exercises, many journeys, many changes of residence. But a dressing of granite, made up of fighters. The historical leader of the group is Agustin Pichot, 33, scrum half, bad temper. Played by magician and smart about urchin, next year will be at Racing Paris with our Festuccia and Lo Cicero, perhaps with Berbizier. "Agustin is believed to Napoleon," he said of his (now former) colleagues at the Stade Francais. But generous to the point of service for 3 days mate Martin Gaitan, suffered a heart problem in Belgium, while the rest of the team moved to France. The other stars are Contepomi, scrum half, whose brother played last year in Rovigo, and especially the hooker Ledesma Juan Martin Hernandez, 25, perhaps the best end of the world, fought at the Stade Francaise by the best English clubs. "El Mago" who is the nephew of Patricio Hernandez, midfielder Toro 80, prefers to play opening. And so it was against France last Friday. Coach Loffreda has satisfied. Power to the people, the team of Che's guerrilla grandchildren.
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