The Pumas are not short of accolades with fullback Joaquin Tuculet winning the try of the year award at Sunday’s World Rugby gala in Monaco and winger Emiliano Boffelli being a nominee for breakthrough player of 2017. “This shows a reality not only of the Pumas team but of the whole system, including Jaguares,” Bosch, who last played for Argentina at the World Cup in England, told Reuters. YOUNG TALENTThe Jaguares Super Rugby Franchise doubles as the Pumas squad because the Argentine union (UAR) ruled out picking European-based players. Bosch said the leading European teams had reacted strongly to the southern hemisphere’s monopoly of the four semi-final berths at the World Cup in England. “They have evolved enormously since the World Cup, Ireland is not the same team that played at the World Cup, the game they played against the Pumas was very good and they had beaten South Africa two weeks earlier,” he said.

Source: The Star November 27, 2017 15:56 UTC