Argentine Rugby Union
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| Argentine Rugby Union Unión Argentina de Rugby |
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| Founded | 1899 |
| IRB affiliation | 1987 |
| President | Alejandro Risler |
| Coach | Marcelo Loffreda |
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| www.uar.com.ar | |
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The Argentine Rugby Union (Spanish: Unión Argentina de Rugby (UAR)) is the governing body for rugby union in Argentina. It is a member of the International Rugby Board with a seat on that body's Executive Council.
The UAR organises the Argentina national rugby union team, also known as Los Pumas.
Unión Argentina de Rugby - Rivadavia 1227 - C1033AAC - Argentina
Telephone: +54 11 4383-2211
Fax: +54 11 4383-2570
[edit] History
The first rugby match in Argentina was played in 1873, the game having been brought to Argentina by Irish and British. It was 26 years later, in 1899, that four clubs in Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, got together to form the River Plate Rugby Football Union.
This body, one of the oldest rugby unions in the world, later became known as the Unión Argentina de Rugby (UAR), which became a member of the International Rugby Board (IRB) after being invited to the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987.
When the rest of the rugby union world went professional in 1995, the UAR decided to keep the game in Argentina amateur. Argentine players who opt to go overseas to play professionally (historically in Italy and France, with an increasing number today playing in England) remain eligible for national team selection (although this was not originally the case), and the current national team is heavily, though not exclusively, made up of European-based players.
[edit] External links
- (Spanish) Home page of the UAR
- (Spanish) Rugby time Argentinian Rugby Site
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